The Development of an Online Support Tool for the Teaching and Learning of the IEEE Standard 1500 for Embedded Core-based Integrated Circuits

Authors

  • Ian A Grout University of Limerick
  • Abu Khari Bin A'ain Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v8i4.2146

Keywords:

Design for testability, testing, IEEE standards, system-on-a-chip

Abstract


In this paper, an online education tool for assisting the teaching and learning of the IEEE 1500 standard testability method, used to support the testing of complex system-on-a-chip (SoC) integrated circuits (ICs), is developed and presented. The tool is an Internet browser based tool that supports the ability to investigate key aspects of the standard and its application to embedded core-based IC designs. The tool allows the user to create VHDL descriptions of both the test circuitry and the function circuitry via the Internet browser interface. The key considerations for developing this tool were to provide a computer based learning tool to support the teaching and learning of the standard and its application. This paper is an extended version of a paper presented at the EDUCON 2012 conference in April 2012.

Author Biography

Ian A Grout, University of Limerick

Ian Grout is a lecturer within the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He was born in London, UK in 1967, and earned his PhD from Lancaster University in 1994. He has worked within the microelectronics field for several years, in particular Integrated Circuit test research and education. He has been a lecturer at Limerick since 1998. Research interests: Microelectronic design, test and design for testability (DfT), mechatronics Academic rank: Lecturer

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Published

2012-11-08

How to Cite

Grout, I. A., & Bin A’ain, A. K. (2012). The Development of an Online Support Tool for the Teaching and Learning of the IEEE Standard 1500 for Embedded Core-based Integrated Circuits. International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE), 8(4), pp. 42–49. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v8i4.2146

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 4 (2012)

Section

Papers

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