WDC announces our Professor's kit

WDC ANNOUNCES OUR PROFESSOR'S KIT

MESA, Arizona, June 5, 2000 - The Western Design Center, Inc. (WDC) has created a Professor's Kit that is intended for the professor to create derivative teaching material and information that is optimized for their teaching environment. WDC will provide copyrighted materials and a W65C122S Learning Kit for the professor's use in developing course curriculum using WDC's 65C02 IP.

The W65C122S is a system-chip design that includes encrypted Verilog behavioral models of WDC's W65C02 8-bit MPU, W65C22 I/O, and 256K RAM and 4K ROM modules. The professor can then create derivative teaching materials to distribute, under license, to the student for SOC design. A standard cell library has been created for the memory map logic, On-Chip Bus (OCB) interface and off-chip I/O ring. WDC's standard cells are IO, inverters, NOR gates, and NAND gates. For manufacturing system chips and protection of WDC's IP, WDC has licensed both MOSIS and Tanner Research for dropping in and verifying system chips that reuse WDC IP cores. This is a step in the procurement of system chips from wafer foundries accessed through MOSIS' multiproject and small volume fabrication service. After wafer fabrication, system chips will be provided to the professor, student or researcher who designed the system-chip (SOC). The analysis of the W65C122S system-chip is performed in WDC's W65C134 Developer Board (W65C134DB) as a plug-replacement for WDC's W65C134 microcontroller. The test program is supported by the on-chip monitor, and debug circuitry. When interfacing with industry standard ATE, test vectors are created from the in-circuit test programs when simulated using the Verilog test bench.

WDC suggests the following curriculum for engineering schools:

1. Introduction to Microprocessors
2. Embedded Systems Design
3. System-On-Chip (SOC) design
4. SOC manufacturing using multi-project wafers
5. SOC analysis

The introduction to microprocessors becomes more valuable and efficient when it features and is coordinated with the microprocessor used in embedded systems and the IP that is later reused in system chips.

The W65C122S Learning Kit is an excellent way for professors to teach and students to learn SOC design. WDC has introduced the Professor's Kit to professors and universities worldwide. Those interested will find information on WDC's WEB site at www.westerndesigncenter.com/professor.html.

Stop by WDC's booth #SV3 in Silicon Village at DAC or the University Booth #2811 for our demo Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday between 3-4 pm.

For more information, please contact Deborah Lamoree at lamoree@westerndesigncenter.com; Jeet Asher at ces@tanner.com; or Wes Hansford at hansford@mosis.org.

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Contact:

THE WESTERN DESIGN CENTER, INC.
2166 E. Brown Rd. Mesa, AZ 85213
Ph 480-962-4545 Fx 480-835-6442
www.westerndesigncenter.com

Deborah Lamoree, lamoree@westerndesigncenter.com, WDC
Jeet Asher, Jeet.Asher@tanner.com, Tanner
Wes Hansford, hansford@mosis.org, MOSIS

 

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