Awakening curiosity—Hardware education for computer science students

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2011-05-23
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This paper describes a new systematic approach
and methodology for teaching hardware based courses to
computer science (CS) students. It is a combination of various
approaches with a profound goal to provoke deeper
comprehension in various topics in microprocessors and
microcontrollers details. The computer student programming
skills and knowledge (generally high level programming
languages and algorithms) is used to program and control
processes with microcontrollers. The methodology evolutes
around three steps: using visual simulators, incrementally
weighted exercises, from easiest to hardest, including
supplemental points, and finally working on real hardware
controllers. The proposed teaching approaches were developed
for the course “Microprocessors and Microcontrollers”, but
can be applied to every hardware based course on computer
science students.
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