ECE 699 - Student Presentations
Description
Students will work in groups of two to prepare presentations on DSP implementation topics not covered in class. The presentation should include:
- A brief introduction of the topic
- Some background information and example applications
- Block diagrams showing pertinent operation of platform or tool
- An example design or two which the students have implemented on the specific tool or platform. This design example should be about as large or larger than one of the homework assignments. This design example can be taken from tutorials or a student's own design.
- Comparison to what we have learned and implemented in class. How this platform or tool relates to the rest of the class.
- Conclusions and future directions of your topic
The presentations will be 15 minutes each. Points will be given for clarity of presentation and for effort expended on the design example(s) and the presentation preparation.
Topics
A list of topics follows:
- DSP-specific blocks on Altera FPGAs
- Software-defined radio platforms combining FPGAs and programmable digital signal processors*
- Xilinx System Generator and AccelDSP
- Texas Instruments programmable DSP processors and design environment (5x series, 6x series, etc.)
- Analog Devices programmable DSP processors and design environment (Blackfin, SHARC, etc.)
- Multi-rate digital signal processing on FPGAs
- Floating-point digital signal processing on FPGAs
- Xilinx EDK and embedded processing*
- Bit-serial DSP architectures on FPGAs
- DSP-specific blocks on Actel FPGAs
- High-level synthesis CAD tools -- conversion from C to RTL (SystemC, SpecC, etc.)
* = you may need access to special hardware for this, provided by your work or through your research advisor (if you have one).