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Our next blog in the Arm Academic Access series switches to teaching on Arm. The team behind London South Bank University’s Electrical and Electronic Engineering courses have been using Arm IP and teaching resources as core elements in their courses and student projects – in everything from doorbells to robot cars. Professor Perry Xiao and Dr Oswaldo Cadenas talk to us about their student projects. Students at London South Bank have a great deal of exposure to Arm IP and resources, whether in its modules from Computer Architecture to Advanced Instrumentation and Design. They are also exposed to Arm academic resources in their second-year group projects, in the Professional Practice and Team Design Project module. Students get to choose how to build that final project. And it’s not just about intelligent doorbells. With AI now so disruptive to almost every industry, getting to grips with AI and machine learning is key for electronic engineering students. Especially running these technologies on the edge. Other projects have focused on edge-based machine learning and wearable technologies, making the most of the Arm IP’s low-power capability. The South Bank team’s journey with Arm began when they started using Arm tools to run projects. Impressed with the quality, simplicity, accessibility and cost-effectiveness of Arm technology, they realized adopting Arm IP as the next step was a “no-brainer.” As for the future, Arm will remain core to the London South Bank syllabus. Its Embedded Software Design module will cover the Cortex-M4 processor core and assembly language. The students will be able to choose to use Arm-based development boards for mini projects. In the Computer Architecture and Operating Systems module, the team is planning to update the assembly language teaching material to the latest Arm architectures. They will also continue to explore the opportunities of running AI models on Arm microprocessors and microcontrollers. Read more… https://lnkd.in/efYS8eHk Arm Academic Access: Enabling researchers to do their best work #onArm #armacademicaccess #teachonarm