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Timeline of Project Design, Development and Implementation

• Submit Title of the Project before or start of  week-4 
• Submit 1-2 page summary of the approach to the project during week-5 
• Demo your project progress in week-9 during the lecture hours
• Submit an interim project report, 4-6 typed pages (e.g. co-specification and/or task graph of your project, etc) at start of your lecture in week-10. 
• Final project report/demo and presentation due before or start of your lecture in Weeks-11 and 12.
• Final project report due during Week 12.
• The final project report should be 10-15 pages and in a typical IEEE paper style (single column format).
• Final project report and/or demo with penalty for late submissions of  interim project report/demo as well as Final report/demo.
Short Presentations of some or all Projects will be scheduled in the last two weeks.
 

Marking Scheme and Deadlines for Project Design and Implementation

• Summary of Project (1-2 pages) end of Study Week. 5% Marks of the Project
• Demo of project progress in week-9 during the lecture break. 5% Marks of the Project
• Interim project report (4-6 typed pages) at start of  week-10 lecture. 10% Marks of the Project
• Final demo and presentation during Weeks-11 and 12 lecture. 30% Marks of the Project
• Final project report due Week 12. 50% Marks of the Project

The above deadlines must be followed as there will be a penalty for late submission @ 5% per day.

 

Lab Project Documents
Quartus-II Tutorial - VHDL Design
Altera SoPC Tutorial
Nios II SoPC Development Tutorial Part-I
Nios II SoPC Development Tutorial Part-II
Nios II SoPC with SDRAM Tutorial

Use this BDF file instead the code in the above Nios II SoPC Development Tutorial Part-I
Use this VHDL file instead the code in the above SDRAM tutorial

SystemC Modeling Tutorial
SystemC Tutorial
SystemC based Design and Implementation of JPEG

Project Details
There are two projects in the course. In the Lab project, students learn about configuring an SoPC using the DE2 FPGA board. The Independent Project is the main project, which is to be envisaged and completed by the students. Details of some of the independent projects are provided at this page. 

Lab Project (20% of the Course Marks)
Configuring  a basic SoPC based on the DE2 FPGA Board. 

Independent Project (50% of the Course Marks)
Details and Selection
Select a topic from any of the following areas for your project. The project topics include but not limited to the following areas. Students are also encouraged to propose their topics in embedded system area and get them approved from the instructor. 

1. Embedded System Architecture for one of the following applications 

• Smart Home Controllers
• Human or Object Tracking
• Multimedia Applications including MP3, MPEG and JPEG 2000
2. Real-time Operating Systems e.g. uCLinux installation for the SoPC and developing an Embedded Application. 
3.  Developing a Real-time/Embedded Multitasking Application of your choice 
       (Based on ucLinux available in the department lab 
4. Real-time Scheduling Techniques 
5. Multitasking Applications 
6. Fault-tolerant and Adaptive Real-time Scheduling 
7. Codesign of a specific embedded system for a particular application including signal and image processing, image compression (JPEG 2000, MPEG, etc.), multimedia, or any other interesting application. 
8. Fault-tolerant Embedded Systems 
9. Modeling Embedded System of your choice or one of the following using SystemC: 
• JPEG 2000, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or MP3 encoder and decoder,
• NoC Simulation
10. Hardware-software Codesign areas including: 
• Embedded System Co-Specification.
• Using SystemC for Embedded System Modeling.
• Embedded System Partitioning into Hardware and Software Blocks.
• NoC System Design

Embedded System Co-synthesis. 
Independent Project and Lab Project Resources

Nios-II based SoPC Development
Nios II SoPC Development Tutorial Part-I
Nios II SoPC Development Tutorial Part-II
Nios II SoPC with SDRAM Tutorial
Use this VHDL file instead the code in the above  SDRAM tutorial
Use another VHDL file for system with LCD, SDRAM, LEDG and SW. The "hello_world" C file will send a meesage to LCD

Introduction to Quartus-II and Handbook

DE2 Board Related Resources
DE2 Board Introduction
DE2 Board User Manual
DE2 Board Pin Assignment
Nios II Software Developer Handbook
Nios II (DE2) Flash Programming

uCLinux for Nios-II
Install-Nios2-Linux
uc_Linux CDK User Guide

Other Nios-II and ucLinux Resources
uCLinux Resource
Nios-2 Forums and Resources
Nios-Wiki