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Dreadful Policing: Are The Semiconductor Industry Giants Content With Yesterday’s International Protection For Integrated Circuits?
Over the past twenty years, the semiconductor industry has grown rapidly. Technological advances have resulted in smaller, faster, and more cost-efficient semiconductor integrated circuits. Today, integrated circuits (“chips”) are found in the majority of electronic devices includes consumer electronics like computers, phones, televisions, and automobiles, and industrial electronics such as motor drives and programmable logic controllers.
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Introducing Programmable Logic to Undergraduate Engineering Students in a Digital Electronics Course
Due to significant technological advances andindustry requirements, many universities have introduced programmable logic and hardware description languages into undergraduate engineering curricula. This has led to a number of logistical and didactical challenges, in particular for computer science students. In this paper, the integration of some programmable logic concepts into an introductory digital electronics course is presented. The proposed optional lab develops a printed circuit board that implements a programmable logic block. Another contribution is the collaborative problem-solving methodology used to achieve this goal. Surveys completed by the students, and their final grades, show that the lab has improved the quality of their education and has contributed to a successful integration of programmable logic concepts in an introductory digital electronics course. Because of its demands on students? time and effort, the lab favors the most motivated students. This suggests future research on a proposal for a lab that would be feasible within the time constraints for even the least motivated students.Fil: Todorovich, ElĂas. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Investigaciones en TecnologĂa Informática Avanzada; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - Tandil; ArgentinaFil: Marone, JosĂ© Antonio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - Tandil; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Investigaciones en TecnologĂa Informática Avanzada; ArgentinaFil: Vazquez, Martin Osvaldo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - Tandil; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Investigaciones en TecnologĂa Informática Avanzada; Argentin
An affordable and modular development environment for PLC-Training
[EN] This paper focuses mainly on educational programs in the fields of mechatronics and electrical engineering. Building, programming and testing electrical circuits with programmable logic controllers (PLC) is an integral part of practical final exams in this sector.Beyerle, W. (2017). An affordable and modular development environment for PLC-Training. En Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 179-187. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAD17.2017.510217918
Versatile Data Acquisition and Controls for Epics Using Vme-Based Fpgas
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have provided Thomas Jefferson
National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) with versatile VME-based data
acquisition and control interfaces with minimal development times. FPGA designs
have been used to interface to VME and provide control logic for numerous
systems. The building blocks of these logic designs can be tailored to the
individual needs of each system and provide system operators with read-backs
and controls via a VME interface to an EPICS based computer. This versatility
allows the system developer to choose components and define operating
parameters and options that are not readily available commercially. Jefferson
Lab has begun developing standard FPGA libraries that result in quick turn
around times and inexpensive designs.Comment: 3 pages, ICALEPCS 2001, T. Allison and R. Foold, Jefferson La
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