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ECE 5760
FPGA and system-on-chip project iIdeas
Cornell University

Other project sites
- Altera Design Contest winners (pdf)
- Columbia CS student projects 2005, 2004, 2006, 2007
- GaTech student projects (Hamblen)
- UCLA VHDL projects
- MIT 6.111 projects: f2007, s2007, f2006, s2006
- fpga4fun
- fpgacpu.org and links
- fpga arcade
- John Kent
- Terasic: project list and NiosII projects
- excamera
Video/Graphics
- “Improved automatic caricature by feature normalization and exaggeration,” http://scribblethink.org/Work/caricature_sketch.pdf
- Sharpness Functions for Computational Aesthetics and Image Sublimation
- PAL/NTSC encoder
- Generate a full NTSC composite color signal, for a video game. NTSC spreadsheet, black and white
- Video mixer for NTSC signals
- Accelerating the bidirectional path tracing algorithm using a dedicated intersection processor
- RPU: A Programmable Ray Processing Unit for Realtime Ray Tracing
- FPGA ray tracer and another
- Ray tracer final project
Computing
- Forth cpu in Verilog
- SIMD supercomputer in Verilog
- Milkymist Graphics processor
- LatticeMico32 port to DE2
- Atmel Mega on FPGA
- μClinux on NiosII
  - μCdot
  - niosWiki
  - Scorpius
  - Manfred Schmid
- BYU Linux on FPGA
- AppleII or PDP8 or PDP11 or TRS80 or other computer emulator
- FPGApple
- apple2fpga
- RetroMicro
- Transputers, parallelism, and graphics
  - ```
  transputer/occam on FPGA
  http://www.wotug.org/paperdb/send_file.php?num=125
  http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/transputing.htm
  http://tmubdell.math.metro-u.ac.jp/yutaka/presentation/CPA2004.pdf
```
- FPGA IMPLEMENTATION OF UNIVERSAL RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR
- SHA1 cracker and NSA@home
- FPGA-based encryption
- Connection Machine
- Minimal instruction set machines
  - P-URISC one instruction ISA and VHDL
  - Ultimate RISC
  - Six different machines
  - Wikipedia
- Stack machines using FORTH-like asm
  - 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
  - microCore
- Wide word machine
- Cellular Automata
  - Conway's game of life
  - search: "cellular automata" fpga
Games/Graphics/Physics
- https://rm-rfroot.net/nes_fpga/ Implemented the original 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System within an FPGA (currently Xilinx, but soon to be ported to the Altera DE2-70). The design is the complete original MOS 6502 + the nintendo picture processing unit, audio core, VGA controller, GUI interface using Qt, etc, etc. It's far from done but it could give your future students another project idea to try out for themselves.
- Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors (RAMP)
- Chemistry on FPGA
- Graphics accelerator
- Accelerating the bidirectional path tracing algorithm using a dedicated intersection processor
- RPU: A Programmable Ray Processing Unit for Realtime Ray Tracing
- FPGA ray tracer and another
- Game dynamics accelerator (physics engine)
- Particle systems
- PostScript rendering with virtual hardware
- An FPGA move generator for the game of chess, Boule M, Zilic Z
  ICGA JOURNAL 25 (2): 85-94 JUN 2002
  http://www.macs.ece.mcgill.ca/~mboul/CICCpaper.pdf
- Usage of a reconfigurable computer to simulate multiparticle systems ; Fragner H (Fragner, Heinrich)
  COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS 176 (5): 327-333 MAR 1 2007
  http://www.fragner.org/hf_cpc_2006.pdf
- FPGA Arcade
- FPGA Console
- Fractals - Mandelbrot set, Julia set, Fractal Gallery, Fractal Geometry
- Fractal landscapes
Lab Instruments
- Logic analyzer
- Digital oscilloscope
- Programmable signal generator
- Complex impedance (Bode) plotter
Audio Signal Processing
- Audio special effects (distortion/reverb/flanger), perhaps with graphical patch panel.
- Audio spectrogram to VGA
- Muscial instrument simulation
  - Karplus-Strong string algorithm
  - Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.
  - Elementary Digital Waveguide Models for Vibrating Strings
  - Digital Audio Synthesis and Effects based on Physical Models by Julius O. Smith
  - PHYSICAL AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING
  - Digital Waveguide Synthesis
  - Banded waveguides
  - Theory of Banded Waveguides
    Essl, Georg, Serafin, Stefania, Cook, Perry R.,Smith, Julius O. (Julius Orion)
    Computer Music Journal, Volume 28, Number 1, Spring 2004
  - Musical Applications of Banded Waveguides
    Essl, Georg, Serafin, Stefania, Cook, Perry R.,Smith, Julius O. (Julius Orion)
    Computer Music Journal, Volume 28, Number 1, Spring 2004
  - Physical modeling using digital waveguides
    Julius O. Smith, III
    Computer Music Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4. (Winter, 1992), pp. 74-91.
  - Digital Synthesis of Plucked-String and Drum Timbres
    Kevin Karplus; Alex Strong
    Computer Music Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2. (Summer, 1983), pp. 43-55.
  - Extensions of the Karplus-Strong Plucked-String Algorithm,
    David A. Jaffe; Julius O. Smith
    Computer Music Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2. (Summer, 1983), pp. 56-69.
  - Acoustic Modeling Using the Digital Waveguide Mesh
    Damian Murphy; Antti Kelloniemi; Jack Mullen; Simon Shelley;
    Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Volume 24, Issue 2, 2007 Page(s):55 - 66
  - Real-Time Dynamic Articulations in the 2-D Waveguide Mesh Vocal Tract Model
    Mullen, J.; Howard, D. M.; Murphy, D. T.;
    Audio, Speech and Language Processing, IEEE Transactions on
    Volume 15, Issue 2, Feb. 2007 Page(s):577 - 585
  - FPGA implementation of 1D wave equation for real-time audio synthesis Gibbons JA, Howard DM, Tyrrell AM
    IEE PROCEEDINGS-COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL TECHNIQUES 152 (5):619-631 SEP 2005
- VR/surround-sound processor: move a sound around a listener
  - Headphone sound externalization
  - Spatial Sound, Data description, coordinate system
  - HRTF data
  - Demo clips: 1, 2, 3, 4 If these links break, search on: spatialization clips or 3D sound clips.
  - Another demo clip partly in German.
- Real-Time Speech Pitch Shifting on an FPGA
- Speech synthesis
- Single Chip Implementation of the 1.6Kbps Speech Vocoder
- Adaptive noise cancellation and 1, 2, and 3
- Fractal music
- Cellular automaton music
Image Processing
- Haar wavelet based processor scheme for image coding with low circuit complexity
  Diaz FJ (Diaz, F. Javier), Buron AM (Buron, Angel M.), Solana JM (Solana, Jose M.)
  COMPUTERS & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 33 (2): 109-126 MAR 2007
- FPGA-oriented HW/SW implementation of the MPEG-4 video decoder; Zemva A (Zemva, Andrej), Verderber M (Verderber, Matjaz) MICROPROCESSORS AND MICROSYSTEMS 31 (5): 313-325 AUG 1 2007
Software defined radio (SDR) :
- Software Defined Radio
- FlexRadio, SDR-1000
- SDR and amateur radio
- Davies
- Altera
- UniversalSoftwareRadioPeripheral, Gnu
- EE Times
- Chun IK, Kim BG, Park IC; A fully synthesizable Bluetooth baseband module for a system-on-a-chip
  ETRI JOURNAL 25 (5): 328-336 OCT 2003
Robots
- Neural net robot
- Stereo vision
- Lego mindstorms FPGA
- A FPGA-based Behavioral Control System for a Mobile Robot
Biology and Evolutionary Electronics
- Conductance-based neurons (pdf)
- DDA page
- FPGA Based Visual Prosthesis Device
- Biology goes digital
- BLAST on FPGA
- Hidden markov models
- Hardware Evolution and an evolved fpga circuit
- Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
- Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware
- IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation (cornell link)
- Adrian Thompson evolved circuit
- Evolvable hardware (EHW) and auto-reconfiguration, the virtual reconfigurable circuit

ECE 5760 FPGA and system-on-chip project iIdeas Cornell University

ECE 5760
FPGA and system-on-chip project iIdeas
Cornell University