Digital technology roadmap Large volume of production Systems on Chip (SoC) & ASICS (GA) Large Altera/Lattice/Xilinx FPGA (>100k logic gates) VHDL & C Systems on Programmable Chip (SoPC) Electrical and digital simulation & verification using educational boards and laboratories Quartus II / ispLEVER / ISE Professional applications in Telecommunications Systems and Telematics Active HDL / ModelSim Altera/Lattice/Xilinx CPLD and FPGA (2,5k – 100k logic gates) Chapter 3: Microcontrollers (µC) Schematics & VHDL The versatile GAL22V10 (500 logic gates) PIC16/18 / Atmega families of microcontrollers Chapter 2: FSM (Finite State Machines) The theory basics and the classic 74 series / CMOS (SSI & MSI) Vendor specific design flow tools (MPLAB, Atmel Studio, C language, simulation Proteus-VSM) Application specific digital systems (Datapath + control unit) Digital processors and subsystems (peripherals) Introductory circuits & FSM Chapter 1: Combinational circuits Advanced optional subjects or research Digital Circuits & Systems

CSD competencies /learning goals Programmable logic devices and VHDL English Self-directed learning Oral and written communication Project management Team work Microcontrollers Lab skills (Systematically design, analyse, simulate, implement, measure, report, present, publish on the web and reflect about … digital circuits and systems using state-of-the-art digital programmable devices, CAD/EDA software tools and laboratory equipment And show all your achievements constructing your ePortfolio III Jornada sobre Aprenentatge Cooperatiu

CSD systematic instructional design After completing the course students have to be able to … Learning objectives and cross-curricular skills Repeated every term In and out of class timetable, problem-based learning, application project Activities and study time scheduling Course evaluation Coherence and consistency Student questionnaires, and instructors processing Systematic procedures for solving assignments (plan, develop, simulate, prototype, measure, report) Continuous formative and summative assessment Active methodologies Cooperative Learning, integrated learning of content and cross-curricular skills, Learning by doing Individual and group assessing, group e-portfolio No need of traditional exams III Jornada sobre Aprenentatge Cooperatiu

Combinational circuits CSD specific content Chapter 1 Combinational circuits (50 h) – 2 ECTS Chapter 2 Finite state machines (FSM) (50 h) – 2 ECTS Chapter 3 Microcontrollers (C) (50h) – 2 ECTS Laboratory skills: logic analysers, debuggers/programmers, simulators, etc. … Proteus-ISIS (Labcenter) Minilog, IC prog WolframAlpha VHDL ModelSim (Mentor Graphics), Active HDL (Aldec) ISim (Xilinx) Synplicity Synplify synthesis (Synopsys) Altera Integrated Synthesis XST (Xilinx Synthesis tools) Quartus II (Altera) ispLEVER Starter or Classic (Lattice Semiconductor) ISE (Xilinx) Proteus-VSM (Labcenter) MPLAB (Microchip) / Atmel Studio C compilers PIC 16F/18F family of microcontrollers , Atmel microcontrollers Training boards PICDEM2+, etc. Programmable logic devices (CPLD and FPGA) from Altera, Lattice, Xilinx Training boards (UP2, DE2, Spartan 3AN Starter Kit, MachXO USB Starter Kit, NEXYS 2, etc. Classic IC’s sPLD GAL22V10 ispLEVER Classic III Jornada sobre Aprenentatge Cooperatiu

Oral and written communication Self-directed learning CSD generic tools Oral and written communication English Self-directed learning Team work Project management Google docs Google sites Web editing tools Proofing tools Google translate etc. Microsoft Office Visio 2010 Thunderbird CMapTools Gantt diagrams III Jornada sobre Aprenentatge Cooperatiu

Planning activities and study time in and out of the classroom (6 ECTS – 150 h) Weekly study plan Activities (~problem solving all the time) Problem solving teamwork session at classroom (2 h) (tutorials) 12 weeks Exercises (P1 .. P12) Guided learning Problem solving teamwork session at laboratory (2 h) Oral presentation 12.5 h per week Problem solving teamwork session and assessment at laboratory (1 h)* Individual test (IT1, IT2, IT3) Student-conducted teamwork sessions (>6h) 6 ECTS ePortfolio Self-directed learning Extra individual work * Guided academic activities III Jornada sobre Aprenentatge Cooperatiu

Web pages and blog III Jornada sobre Aprenentatge Cooperatiu

Activities  Design of real world applications Design using PLD/VHDL Design using microcontrollers

The content on the CSD web (units) is focused on problem solving III Jornada sobre Aprenentatge Cooperatiu

Cooperative Learning as the instructional method Positive interdependence Team members are obliged to rely on one another to achieve their common goal Individual accountability All students in a group are held accountable for doing their share of the work and for mastery of all of the content to be learned Face-to-face promotive interaction Group members providing one another with feedback, challenging one another’s conclusions and reasoning, and teaching and encouraging one another Appropriate use of collaborative skills Students are encouraged and helped to develop and practice skills in communication, leadership, decision-making, conflict management, and other aspects of effective teamwork Regular self-assessment of group functioning Team members periodically assess what they are doing well as a team and what they need to work on for functioning more effectively in the future III Jornada sobre Aprenentatge Cooperatiu

A typical 2-hour group work session Questions from previous sessions or exercises Up to 15 minutes Introduction of new concepts or materials (generally, the problem to be designed) Up to 15 minutes Group work for revising concepts and planning exercises 30 minutes Questions, discussion and general orientations Up to 15 minutes Group work for developing exercises 30 minutes Conclusions and planning for the student-directed sessions outside the classroom 15 minutes

Cooperative group ePortfolio and instructor’s feedback A semi structured group e-portfolio organised to show your learning process and results III Jornada sobre Aprenentatge Cooperatiu

Every piece of work counts for the final grade Student assessment Assessment is not a mechanism for verifying student knowledge, but an stimulus to guarantee that (motivated) students will do the group tasks which lead them to learn the content and skills Assessment is another learning activity integrated in the course dynamics  ePortfolio Every piece of work counts for the final grade Final exams are no longer needed III Jornada sobre Aprenentatge Cooperatiu

+ + + + Assessment scheme Rubrics and examples from previous terms, facilitates assessing and classroom dynamics gives fast feedback Projects + An group oral presentation of a course exercise Individual test + Examples to demonstrate content learning, cross-curricular skills development and reflection Oral Presentation Cooperative group projects every week or every two weeks + e-Portfolio 3 individual exams + If failed downgrade project marks Participation and attitude Ep1: Week 6, 4% Ep2: Week 12 , 8% Continuous assessment: you’ll always know where you are and what you have to do to get better marks III Jornada sobre Aprenentatge Cooperatiu

Assessment scheme A remark on the projects assessment: There is a link between the IT and the weekly projects: Projects (48%) Individual Test (24%) P1 .. P4 IT1 P5 .. P8 IT2 P9 .. P12 IT3 Projects will have a provisional group grade. In order to consolidate it, students have to pass the corresponding IT. If a student fails the IT, the corresponding projects will be downgraded to “4”. At the exams weeks there will be another opportunity to pass or improve IT1 (week 7) and IT2 and IT3 (week 14). III Jornada sobre Aprenentatge Cooperatiu

Course evaluation and processing Learning objectives and cross-curricular skills This quality cycle has to be repeated every term Activities and study time scheduling Course evaluation CSD WEB page  Coherence and consistency Student questionnaires, and instructors processing Continuous formative and summative assessment Active methodologies The evaluation’s aim is to prepare a plan with specific actions to improve teaching in upcoming courses (problems redesigning, timetable scheduling, workload, teaching materials, new software, demonstration exercises, etc.). Examples of feedback (http://digsys.upc.es/ed/CSD/feedback/CSDfdbk.html) . III Jornada sobre Aprenentatge Cooperatiu