June – August 2011

NASA Curriculum Improvements Partnership Award for the Integration of Research (CIPAIR) Summer Research Program                                                                       

Nano Electronics and Computing Research Laboratory, San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA)

Project: “Hands-on Teaching of Embedded Systems Design Using FPGA-Based tPad Development Kit”

Principal Investigator: Hamid Mahmoodi, PhD

 Researched methods of implementing logic design a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based development board; assisted in the development of tools for graduate students to better understand the mechanisms of FPGAs.

Link to one of our early online video tutorial made during the research project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpFxGuRB0xk&feature=relmfu