Tele-education of the instruction dynamic scheduling using a web simulator

Abstract

Communication and information technologies have become a fundamental tool in education, due to their great advantages: any place and moment, saving of costs, interactivity, etc. For these reasons, we believe it is important to dedicate efforts in the development of educational proposals and prototypes via Internet. In this chapter a multimedia simulator is presented, based on Internet, which has been developed and it is applying for the teaching of Instruction Dynamic Scheduling (IDS). At present, IDS is studied in all subject about Computer Architecture because it is a fundamental aspect inside the pipelined processors, and any current computer has a pipelined processor. The platform we present here is named PDIWeb, and it has been developed thanks to a grant for Projects of Educational Innovation at the University of Extremadura (Spain). This chapter presents a general description of this web simulator, as well as the methods and tools used for its implementation. The chapter also includes the results obtained after the platform use and the realization of anonymous surveys by the students. In conclusion, it is an educational innovation that allows improving the teaching in Computer Architecture. © 2007 Springer.