Current Proceedings on Technology
Yazarlar: Michal Behúň
Konular:-
Anahtar Kelimeler:HDL,Programs assessment,VHDL,Matching algorithm
Özet: Learning hardware description languages (HDLs) based design is in many aspects similar to learning the art of computer programming and requires a lot of practice. Unfortunately, manual grading of designed models is a tedious task and does not guarantee an objectivity. One solution to this problem is to automate the grading process. Several tools have been developed for students’ HDL models management and evaluation at the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. However, the automated grading algorithms used do not provide the expected grading quality and need to be improved. The automated grading improvement presented here is based on the code processing and matching algorithm. It is implemented into the tool that can process two types of inputs derived from currently used HDL models management and evaluation tools. The first experience shows that the developed grading tool performs better compared to the previous approaches and it proved to be a useful help especially in case of syntactically incorrect submissions.