Digital Design Learning System Based on Java Applets

In this paper, we offer tools which support the learning process in computer engineering area. The greater part of the tools is intended mainly to illustrate problems in control intensive digital systems such as investigation of tradeoffs between the system’s speed and the cost of hardware, control part decomposition, simulation, fault simulation, test generation, built-in self-test, and some others. The core of the teaching system presented are several Java-applets running on any browser connected to the Internet. The use of Java applets can encourage asynchronous distance learning and thus overcome the limitations inherent in traditional instructional techniques. Java applets can help create an interactive environment of “leaning by doing”. Beyond their ability to better convey certain concepts, the applets can increase motivation and instill greater interest among students