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2005 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE'05)
Anaheim, California, USA
June 12-June 13
ISBN: 0-7695-2374-9
Ryuichi Takahashi, Hiroshima University
Hajime Ohiwa, Keio University
Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) is a new model that illustrates the learning process of the participation in communities of practice, where it is at first legitimately peripheral but increase gradually in engagement and complexity. In a production line, the apprentices are engaged in stages under the attenuated condition of the situation to have an opportunity for observation to get an approximate knowledge of the product in the early steps of the learning process. The very first step is called way-in, which we have found very critical for the success of the whole learning. Instruction-issue-logic was chosen as such in City-1 education environment of microprocessor design, because it is the central part of the superscalar microprocessors. Although our junior students had the opportunity for understanding the concept of superscalar through this way-in, FPGA's with 10,000 gates were found to be too small for a framework to move forward to full participation. In 2004, FPGA's with 200,000 gates were introduced with a new example of superscalar description that had a reorder buffer with 4 entries. As a results, 16 out of 52 junior students who took the course were successful in bringing their original devices into their microprocessors. This education could be used as a training in industry as well.
Citation:
Ryuichi Takahashi, Hajime Ohiwa, "Legitimate Peripheral Participation on FPGA for Fine-Grain Microprocessor Design Education," mse, pp.99-100, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE'05), 2005
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