ECE 5760 Advanced Microcontroller Design and system-on-chip

Assignments    Lab exercises | Reading

Lab Assignments

1. Hardware ODE solver with HPS control
2. Mandelbrot Set Visualizer
3. Multiprocessor drum synthesis
4. Final Project

Hunter's Lectures (2020), Bruce's Lectures (2019), Lectures (2017, hackaday)
Final projects

Old lab assignments, ideas for labs
Old DE2, DE2-115 web page last used in 2016 and Lectures (2011)

Reading Assignments

• All semester:
  • Policy
    Tektronix TDS1002 oscilloscope manual
  • B&K 4040a signal generator manual
  • DE1-SoC Users Manual, Schematic, GPIO Ports
  • Resources available on our Cyclone5.
• Lab 1:
  • Review Synthesizable Verilog syntax Synthesis Methodology
    
  • Read Linux on DE1-SoC
  • Read University Program DE1-SoC_Computer_15_1
  • SoC-FPGA Design Guide EPFL, Sahand Kashani-Akhavan and René Beuchat (local copy)
  • You are going to be programming C to display waveforms on the VGA subsystem.
    Therefore you are expected to be able to program in Linux/GCC. Read about:
    1. /dev/mem for i/o mapping, e.g. simtec and local
    2. Debian Linux. We are using a Debian variant, I believe.
    3. GCC on Linux, e.g. die.net
    4. USB on DE1-SoC
  • You are going to connect the VGA controller using Qsys tools. Read about:
    1. Qsys
    2. VGA on DE1-SoC
    3. University video core
    • Digital Differential Analyser
    • External Bus to Avalon Bridge (external master)
    • Avalon to External Bus Bridge (external slave)
    • Using external buses
    • Using ModelSim to test computations
• Lab 2:
  • Physical music synthesis
  • Study Notes on Numerical Solutions of the Wave Equation with the Finite Difference Method.
  • IMPLEMENTATION OF FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEMES FOR THE WAVE EQUATION ON FPGA
  • External Bus to Avalon Bridge (last example -- audio bus master)
  • University audio core
• Lab 3:
  • Mandelbrot_set
  • Implementation on Cyclone2 (note that the DE1 mentioned here is NOT Cyclone5)