ECE 5760 deals with system-on-chip and embedded control in electronic design. The course is taught by Bruce Land, who is a staff member in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Final Projects | Policy | Assignments | Staff and Schedule | Links | Lectures (fall'11)
ECE 5760 thanks:
- ALTERA for their donation of FPGAs and development hardware.
- TERASIC for timely technical support of their hardware.
Assignments Lab exercises | Reading
ECE5760 is on Videonote (for Cornell students only)
Lab Assignments
- 1. One-dimensional cellular automaton (weeks of Jan 21, 28)
- 2. Video game with Nios or Pancake (weeks of Feb 4, 11 and 18)
- 3. Multiprocessor PDE realtime synthesis of a drum (week of Feb 25 and Mar 4)
- 4. Mandelbrot Set (weeks of Mar 11, 25)
- 5. Final Project (weeks April 1 to April 29)
Old lab assignments, ideas for labs
Lectures (2011) and Final projects
Reading Assignments
- All semester:
- Week of Jan 21:
- QuartusII tutorial for Verilog
- SOPC examples: Altera Design Contest winners (pdf)
- Review Synthesizable Verilog syntax from one of the links below, possibly Code Examples, or Synthesis Methodology
- Download and inspect the contents of the DE2 CDROM zip version 1.5 (Altera link)
- Text Chapters 1-5 introduces the DE2 and FPGA
- Text Chapters 7-8 reviews Verilog and state machines
- Week of Jan 28
- DE2 hardware examples
- SRAM data sheet
- VGA DAC data sheet
- Text Chapter 10 VGA
- Text Chapter 15-17
- Week of Feb 4
- Pancake stack machine
- Nios II Software Developer's Handbook chapters 1-4, and 6.
- SOPC builder tutorial
- SDRAM tutorial
- Week of Feb 11
- NiosII. Read enough so that you will know exactly where to find the data you need. I suggest Nios II Processor Reference Handbook chapters 1-4, and 8.
- NiosII basic computer system
- NiosII tutorial
- Altera Nios Hardware/Software Examples
- Terasic NiosII HW/SW examples
- Week of Feb 18
- Week of Feb 25
Schedule and Staff Schedule | Staff
- Lecture: MWF 1220-1310 Location: PHL 213
- Lab Section: Thursday or Friday, 1330-1630, 238 Phillips
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- Bruce
Land, BRL4@cornell.edu, 214 Phillips 255-7994
- TA: Wei (Annie) Dai; wd65@cornell.edu
Links Cornell | Altera | NiosII | NiosII RTOS | CPU/COREs | Verilog | Design
- Cornell staff-maintained pages
- Final Projects and some ideas and other project locations
- DE2 hardware and processor examples (excluding NiosII)
- FPGA memory
- Stack CPU
- NiosII assembler examples
- NiosII GCC examples
- NiosII MicroC/OS examples
- FPGA as an Digital Differential Analyzer (Analog Computer)
- Neural Models on the FPGA
- DSP on FPGA
- Simple Floating Point hardware
- VGA examples --
- NTSC Video
- Stocastic Chemical Reactions (hackaday)
- Altera University Program
- ALTERA Literature and DE2 resources
- QUARTUS II design software
- VERILOG in QUARTUS II, Simulation, Timing, SignalTap
- Memory Init File (mif) format
- Advanced Synthesis Cookbook
- Recommended HDL style
- Synchronous one-read, one-write, 2-port memory 6-16
- Synchronous two-read, one-write, 3-port memory 6-19
- Synchronous ROM, 6-23
- Tristate devices 6-36, Do not use for internal signals. 6-36
- Latches 6-40
- System on a programmable chip (SOPC) builder
- Megafunctions
- DE2 prototype board
- DE2 CDROM zip version 1.5 (Altera link)
- DE2 datasheets
- DE2_CCD camera CDROM
- Video input to VGA display project
- PIN assignment csv file
- Top level Verilog shell
- John Loomis, DE2 utilities from University of Dayton
- DE2 resources (Hamblen, GATech)
- Terasic (makes the DE2)
- DE2 tutorials and exercises
- NiosII
- CycloneII FPGA specs, details
- Other courses using Altera for SOPC
- GeorgiaTech, Hamblen, instructional materials
- UIUC ECE598 SOC
- John Loomis, DE2 utilities from University of Dayton
- UMass Amherst ECE354
- NiosII Operating systems and Languages
- lcc, the retargetable C compiler
- Nios microCLinux and Wiki
- MicroC/OS RTOS
- Book by Labrosse
- on NiosII
- Nios source code (NOT NiosII)
- introduction (Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University)
- introduction Zworld
- API summary and another summary
- Complete API
- RTOS introduction (KTH)
- KROS Real-Time Suite for the Altera Nios
- RTEMS Wiki and home page
- FreeRTOS Wiki and home page
- HAL introduction (KTH)
- newlib C-library
- CPU and IP cores
- opencores.org
- fpgacpu.org and links
- Floating point (HMC)
- One Instruction machines
- P-URISC one instruction ISA and VHDL
- Ultimate RISC
- Six different machines
- Wikipedia
- Stack machines and FORTH
- Sandpiper Technology
- Minimal stack CPU (Brad Rodriguez)
- b16 processor (Bernd Paysan)
- WISC CPU/16 (Koopman) Stack Computers
- Stack Computers and FORTH (koopman publications)
- FORTH hardware (Jason Woof)
- FORTH interest group
- Writing FORTH (Richard W.M. Jones)
- Homebrew stack CPU in an FPGA
- c18 colorFORTH and c18 multicore emulator
- Intellasys
- Evaluation of Synthesizable cores
- Microarchitecture of FPGA based soft processors
- Soft Core Processors and Embedded Processing: a survey and analysis
- A Study of the Speedups and Competitiveness of FPGA Soft Processor
- RISC16 (Bruce Jacob, UMD)
- WISC-SP06 (CS/ECE552 Wisconsin)
- DLX/MIPS ( Trinity College Dublin, Jeremy Jones )
- DLXview (Purdue)
- System-on-chip (Jan Gray)
- Synthesizable MIPS core in verilog (MIT SCALE group)
- MIPS core (Lafayette, ECE313)
- Kraken 16-bit RISC (Stanford) and other past projects
- 16-bit RISC (ECE813 MSU)
- DFT IP generator (CMU, Peter A. Milder for the SPIRAL Project )
- Software radio (Altera)
- Software radio (Virginia Polytech, John C. Davies IV)
- AIZUP 8-bit core (FCCM 1996) 1998 datapath and VHDL: single cycle, fetch/execute, pipelined, plus assembler def
- Eclectic list of computer architectures David Cary
- FPGApple
- FPGA for Fun -- Digital Scope
- RetroMicro FPGA
- CD16 soft CPU
- EE475 (my 1998 version)
- Verilog
- verilog.org
- verilog.net
- verilog.com and IEEE standard
- Nonblocking Assignments in Verilog Synthesis, Coding Styles That Kill! (Cliff Cummings)
- Synthesizable Verilog Examples
- Verilog manual (CSCI320, Bucknell)
- Verilog and logic lectures (MIT, Nathan Ickes and Rex Min)
- Blocking/nonblocking assignments
- Verilog tutorial (asic-world)
- Intro to Verilog (msstate, Reese)
- Reference manual ( Rajeev Madhavan, Automata Publishing )
- Quick Reference (Sutherland HDL)
- Verilog synthesis methodology (Finbarr O’Regan (finbarr@ee.ucd.ie))
- Verilog HDL coding (Freescale)
- Testbench Primer (Lattice)
- Altera Design Examples
- Binary to BCD converter
- General design information
- Proverbs and quotations
- It’s Time to Stop Calling Circuits “Hardware”
- John Kent's FPGA page
- fpgacpu.org and links
- fpga arcade
- fpga4fun
- Teaching with FPGAs (Edwards, Columbia) glossy version: student projects 2007, 2005, 2004 and 2007 class
- DSP/math
- Video/Graphics
- Video Chips
- Using the MC6847 Video Controller (MIT)
- MC6847 data sheet
- ELM data sheet
- NTE879 RGB encoder
- SAA1101 synch generator
- TDA8501 PAL/NTSC encoder
- MC13077 encoder
- AD722 encoder
- LM1881 sync separator (national) and EL1881 synch separator (intersil)
- TV tutorials
- TinyGL graphics
package
- Analog, Analog to Digital, and D to A
- Practical Analog Design (from Circuit Cellar)
- Guide to instrumentation amplifier design (analog devices)
- Single power supply opamp circuits (TI)
- Micropower circuts (Linear Technology)
- Single supply amplifier (EDN)
- Discover Circuits
- Analog-input circuit serves any microcontroller (EDN magazine12/20/2001)
- National Semiconductor
- Texas Instruments
- Dallas Semiconductor/Maxim
- Field-programmable Analog Arrays (FPAA)
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