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The paper presents a knowledge and skills assessment approach developed to support Digital system description course in which students should gain the skills in digital systems modeling using hardware description languages (HDL). The previously used course exams in pen and paper form were neither popular nor suitable in this area since they have not allowed the verification of the student’s ability to debug the created model, which is the substantial part of the student’s practical skills. That is why we developed several knowledge assessment tools that enable reliable evaluation of practical skills in HDL modeling without substantial teacher involvement. The tool developed for SystemC language has the form of a new Moodle activity module and enables to edit, compile, and simulate SystemC models. The syntax highlighting editor is integrated directly into the module, however for model compilation and simulation the external tools are invoked by means of shell scripts called from PHP application. The submitted models are automatically assessed based on the simulation results comparison.

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