Addressing Low-Power Electronics in a Digital System and FPGA Design Course

Low power dissipation is a current topic in digital design, and therefore, it should be covered in a state-of-the-art electrical engineering curriculum. This paper describes how low-power design can be addressed within a digital design course. Doing so would be beneficial for both topics because low-power design is not detached from the systems perspective, and the digital design course would be enriched by references to current challenges and applications. Thus, the presented course should serve as an example of how a course can be developed to also teach students about sustainable engineering.

Metadaten
Document Type:	Article
Language:	English
Author:	Marco Winzker
Parent Title (English):	iJEP (International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy)
Volume:	4
Issue:	4
First Page:	33
Last Page:	38
ISSN:	2192-4880
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-13162
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v4i4.3926
Publisher:	kassel university press
Publishing Institution:	Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Date of first publication:	2014/10/05
Note:	This article is an extended and modified version of a paper presented at the IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference EDUCON 2014, held from 3 to 5 April 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Keywords:	FPGA; education; energy awareness; low power
Departments, institutes and facilities:	Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften und Kommunikation
	Institute of Visual Computing (IVC)
Projects:	Pro-MINT-us - Förderung von MINT-Fächern und Studierfähigkeit in der Studieneinstiegsphase (DE/BMBF/01PL11067;01PL16067)
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC):	6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
Entry in this database:	2015/04/02
Licence (German):	Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 3.0

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