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dc.contributor.advisorSteinmeyer, Joseph D.
dc.contributor.authorLang, Jay
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-31T19:37:45Z
dc.date.available2023-07-31T19:37:45Z
dc.date.issued2023-06
dc.date.submitted2023-06-06T16:35:30.752Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151412
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, we investigate the deployment of real-world Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools in the digital design classroom. Hands-on experience with these tools is essential to prepare students for state-of-the-art research and industry settings. However, modern EDA tools such as Xilinx’s Vivado have limited to no compatibility with a broad subset of architectures and operating systems used by students. Past digital design courses have sidestepped this problem by providing a lab space stocked with research-grade computers - however, this solution is incompatible with trends in remote and hybrid learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, we have designed and implemented lab-bc, a serverless computing platform which allows our students to invoke industry-standard EDA tooling remotely. Our system is significant in that it provides locality transparency: in contrast to existing remote interfaces, students may invoke tools like Vivado as if they are installed on their own devices. This interface grants students the generality, ease-of-use, and performance of a local installation regardless of the hardware they own. lab-bc is deployed onto a set of excess servers in our lab space, where despite frequent spinning disk failures and unreliable power delivery, the system provides high-performance, strongly-sandboxed Vivado instances to MIT students nationwide.
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technology
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleLab-bc: A Serverless Computing Platform for MIT Educators
dc.typeThesis
dc.description.degreeM.Eng.
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
mit.thesis.degreeMaster
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


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