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Project Objectives
- To organize training courses about system specification methodology
and concepts and system validation methods for complex electronic
systems. The results from design methodology research need to
be efficiently transferred from academia to industry.
- To organize training courses around new or prototype EDA tools
entering the market.
- To organize or create training courses around newly emerging
standard methods (languages, notations) used in the specification
of complex systems.
- To provide the mechanisms of customizing education and training
services in order to satisfy the dynamically changing requirements
of the system industry. The customization will address both
the technical content and the delivery mechanisms to provide
training services just-in-time for a specific set of industry
requirements.
- To establish an efficient mechanism of promotion of the newly
developed training
- To create the ECSI Institute for the long term exploitation
of project results; the Institute will continuously enlarge
the course portfolio to provide highly advanced expertise in
the domain of system design to the whole European industry.
WP Description
WP1: Assessment of Industry Needs
The training needs of the industrial partners will be identified
in terms of course content and scope, application domain, practical
examples.
WP2: Training Content and Material Preparation
From the results of WP1, a set of courses will be defined covering
the requirements identified by industry. The material to be prepared
for each course will be decided which will include the technical
contents, practical exercises and an evaluation mechanisms. The
potential for on-line accessibility of the material will be explored.
A set of courses and the corresponding detailed syllabus, training
methods and material will be developed.
WP3: Training Material Customisation
The material being prepared in WP3 will be tailored to the different
application areas identified in WP2 from the industrial partners
needs (specific contents, domain specific examples, tool selection,
and learning methodology e.g. the level of interactivity, learning
aids, training support, mentorship etc.).
From the results of the analysis of the services already offered
done in WP4, the courses customisation will be improved following
the evolution of the needs detected.
WP4: Promotion, exploitation and analysis
WP4 will ensure the promotion of the educational services developed
in the project to all potential industrial end users. An analysis
of the different courses will be performed using primarily feedback
form the industry group. Criteria for improvement will be defined
and implemented. A Marketing & Promotion Committee will be
charged with the execution of the particular tasks in this WP.
Exploitation will be ensured by the ECSI Institute and by all
project partners.
WP5: Delivery demonstrators
The goal of WP4 will be to identify and develop as required novel
and unique new solutions for remote and web based delivery of
all the training courses, as well as improvement to, and standardization
of more traditional methods across a disparate group of training
providers.
A stepwise approach will be adopted to include:
- Face to face courses and hands-on labs of up to 5 days duration
(dedicated courses in a particular application area)
- Web hosted on-line delivery, with a varying degree of the
tutor assistance
WP6. Management
This WP will perform an efficient coordination of the organizational
and technical actions of the project.
Milestones
There will be 2 sets of milestones:
The first milestone will be the detailed course portfolio, made
in consultation with industry. This portfolio will give a set
of course kernels, each with it's own set of flavors for the different
application domains and specific needs of industrial partners.
The other milestones will be associated to the course quality
assessments provided by both the teacher-lecturer and the course
participants. This assessment will be used to adapt and improve
the course content and delivery mechanism.
Partners:
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Participant
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Role
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| Training services
providers |
| IMEC |
Course provider |
| ISLI |
Course provider |
| University of Linköping |
Course provider |
| TU München |
Course provider |
| EDA training
services providers |
| Cadence |
Course/Labs provider |
| Mentor Graphics |
Course/Labs provider |
| Training Users |
| ARM |
User |
| Motorola |
User |
| MBDF |
User |
| Management,
Promotion & Exploitation |
| ECSI |
Coordinator |
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