Teaching digital design to computing science students in a single academic term

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 127-132

  Amaral, José Nelson ^a   Berube, Paul ^a   Mehta, Paras ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digital logic design; Digital systems; Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); Teaching laboratory

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; LOGIC DESIGN; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN; TEACHING LABORATORY;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 14644401108     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2004.837048     Document Type: Article

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