Resumen de Reconfigurable computing system: a project-based course for graduate students
Leibo Liu, Chenchen Deng, Zhaoshi Li, Shouyi Yin, Shaojun Wei
With a reduction of energy budgets and increasing aggregation of different applications, reconfigurable computing systemis becoming a promising platform for future system-on–a-chip (SoC) designs. This paper presents a project-based courseon reconfigurable computing systems. With the aid of an education platform, students learn to design their own mixed-grained reconfigurable architectures and implement a cryptographic algorithm. Combining both fine-grained Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures (CGRAs), the course providesstudents an integrated view of reconfigurable computing system following the up-to-date scientific development in thisarea. Also, students gain practical hands-on experience of designing reconfigurable computing system using hardware-software co-design methodology. More than fifty students participate a comprehensive survey after the course and twelvefaculty members of the similar research interests also appraise the course. Both the survey feedback and the courseassessment confirms that the objectives of the course are well achieved.