Ideas

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

Other project sites
- fpgacpu.org and links
- RocketBoards
- Terasic
- John Kent
Video/Graphics
- OpenCL Mandelbrot render
- “Improved automatic caricature by feature normalization and exaggeration,” http://scribblethink.org/Work/caricature_sketch.pdf
- Ray tracer/GPU
Computing
- Reconfigurable approximate ODE solver controlled by HPS
- Binary Neural Network
- Retina neural net
- Forth cpu in Verilog
- Atmel Mega on FPGA
- Old Architectures
  - AppleII
  - PDP8 or PDP11
  - Connection Machine
  - Transputer
- apple2fpga
- 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
```
- FPGA IMPLEMENTATION OF UNIVERSAL RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR
- Connection Machine
- Cellular Automata
  - Fluid flow
  - search: "cellular automata" fpga
Games/Graphics/Physics
- Chemistry on FPGA
- Fluid dynamics/Lattice Boltzmann
- Game dynamics accelerator (collision engine)
- Fractal landscape generator
- Particle systems
Lab Instruments
- DE1-SoC power monitor using onboard ADC
- Logic analyzer -- See 2017 projects
- Digital oscilloscope -- See 2017 projects
- Programmable signal generator
- Complex impedance (Bode) plotter
Audio Signal Processing
- Speech
  - text to speech / speech synthesis
  - Allophone synthesis -- SP0256 -- last example on old 4760 page
  - speech compression -- LPC
  - speech recognition
  - Real-Time Speech Pitch Shifting on an FPGA
- VR/surround-sound processor: move a sound around a listener
  - Headphone sound externalization
  - 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.
- Adaptive noise cancellation
- Fractal music
- Cellular automaton music
- Audio special effects (distortion/reverb/flanger), perhaps with graphical patch panel.
- Audio spectrogram to VGA, maybe MEL spectrum? (has been done several times)
- Muscial instrument simulation
  - Digital version of Roland TR-808 drum machine
  - Finite Difference
  - Digital wave guide
    - 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
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) :
- 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
- Architectures for high-performance FPGA implementations of neural models
- FPGA implementation of a biological neural network based on the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron model
- Izhikevich Neural Model
- FPGA Based Visual Prosthesis Device
- Real-Time ECG Monitoring System Based on FPGA
- Biology goes digital
- BLAST on FPGA
- Hardware Evolution and an evolved fpga circuit
- Evolvable Systems:
  - 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 ideas Cornell University

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