A new orientation for a multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering program course on Digital Electronics is proposed. Students are trained to describe complete systems in VHDL. These systems have been previously modeled with Matlab/Simulink ®, including both continuous and discrete components. Digital controllers based on concurrent hardware are designed for these systems in the same framework. After developing and simulating the behavioral model of the system or plant, the controller is re-described under the synthesis constraints and implemented in an FPGA evaluation board for verification along with the system under control. In this way, the course is not only intended for digital electronics specialists but also for students with diverse engineering backgrounds.

UNIVERSITY programs combine specialization and multidisciplinary education. The integration of different disciplines is often addressed by the students on their own, after receiving the content of the different courses. The incorporation of mature research results into the course content tends to increase the specialization of the educational syllabus, making necessary new efforts of integration among disciplines. On the other hand, modeling and design tools can be adapted to describe diverse systems that deal with information or energy processing. The understanding of the general information / energy processing system is a good motivation to learn specific technology, in this case digital electronic design.

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