Re: Are 'best' universities being targeted

[world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian)]

>I would like to see a class in which CS students are teamed with
>EE students to build a peripheral for a computer, such as a uart.
>The EE student wuold be resposible for the hardward design and fab;
>the CS student would be responsible for the software design and 
>implementation to make the hardware do something useful.

Why make students do something the DoD refuses to do?  What you should
have requested is for two DoD programmers to build a peripheral for a 
computer, such as a UART.  One programmer would use VHDL to design,
layout and build the hardware, and one programmer would use Ada to design,
code and test the software, both using the same core sets of tools.

It is criminal that the massively blown opportunity (and one measure of the
lack of vision of the STARS effort) of Ada/VHDL synergy, which would have
lead to hardware/software development synergy, was totally ignored.  Once
again a benefit given to the C/C++ community.  Imagine this, Tri-Ada 93
and not one mention of VHDL anywhere.  Criminal. Incredible. Obnoxious.

So don't ask students to do what the DoD doesn't want to do.

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