CSCE 488: Computer Engineering Professional Development

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CSCE 488 Computer Engineering Professional
Development

• Getting Started With Projects
• Yuyan Xue
• and
• Sharad Seth

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Outline

• Introduction to Senior Design Project
• Available Resources
• Previous Projects
• Attractive Contests
• Useful Links

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Project Requirements

• Design implement a combined software/hardware
  project, too complex for one person
• Work collaboratively in teams, competitively
  between teams
• Follow Industrial standards in documenting and
  reporting on projects
• Innovate and utilize the latest technology
• Full project proposal plus a related mini-project
  implementation

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Some Suggestions

• Form your team asap
• Brainstorm ideas do background research
• Do feasibility analysis
• Prepare a schedule and budget

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Available Resources

• HANDY BOARD
• - based on the 52-pin Motorola MC68HC11
  processor
• - includes 32K of battery-backed static RAM
• - four outputs for DC motors
• - provides connector system for analog sensor
  inputs
• - an LCD screen
• - an integrated, rechargeable battery pack.
• - one extended board

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Available Resources

• eBOX
• eBox-II Embedded Computer is an embedded
  system using Vortex86 System-On Chip technology.
  It has 166MHZ SOC, 128MB RAM, 64MB Disc on
  Modules (IDE Device), built in Audio, LAN, Video,
  and also 3 USB ports.

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Available Resources

• ALTERA BOARD
• Altera Stratix Nios Development Board
• Altera UP2 Development Board

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Why FPGAs?

• Handle dense logic and memory elements, offering
  very high logic capacity
• Easy to change the logic design
• Lower cost and shorter development cycle
• Complete integrated design environment (IDE) that
  you may have used in previous courses (230, 430,
  ...)
• Easy to learn about and use

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Altera Stratix Nios Development Board

• Stratix EP1S10F780C6
• 10,570 Logic Elements
• 920 Kb on-chip memory
• Provide hardware platform for developing embedded
  system
• Comes pre-programmed with a 32-bit Nios processor
  reference design

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Altera Stratix Nios Development Board

• 8 MB of flash Memory,1MB of static RAM, 16MB of
  SDRAM
• On-board Ethernet MAC/PHY device
• Compact Flash connector header
• Two RS-232 DB9 serial ports
• 50MHz oscillator and zero-skew clock distribution
  circuitry
• Four push-button switches
• Dual 7-segment LED display

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Altera UP2 Development Board

• EPF10K70RC240-4 device
• EPM7128SLC-7 device
• One RS-232 serial port
• Four push-button switches
• Dual 7-segment LED display
• 25.175MHz oscillator

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Other Available Resources

• CMU CAM
• Track the position and size of a colorful or
  bright object
• Measure the RGB or YUV statistics of an image
  region
• Automatically acquire and track the first object
  it sees
• Physically track using a directly connected servo
  
• Dump a complete image over the serial port
• Dump a bitmap showing the shape of the tracked
  object

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• LEGO TOOLKITS

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• We also have a small number of motes
  (sensorscpuwireless) that can be used to form
  autonomous sensor networks.
• A modest budget is available to each team in 489
  to order other components.

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Some Previous Projects
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• A walking robot (2004-2005 Fall)
• A walking robot, with two full-degree
  legs, is designed in the semester. The self-made
  robot has two long legs, two big feet, and many
  sensors. The robot is controlled by a laptop
  through the parallel port. The students finished
  all the mechanical, hardware and software work. A
  good try!

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• A computer workstation monitor system
• (2004-2005 Fall)
• Based on Altera board. With a humidity sensor
  and some middleware, it can monitor live
  temperature and humidity in the working
  environment.

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• McTouch - Touch Interface Ordering Device
  (2005-2006 Fall)
• Developed base on E-BOX. It is a wireless
  client/server system which allows the customer of
  a typical fast food restaurant to place an order
  at their own pace using a user friendly touch
  screen interface. The system uses FLASH
  interfaces that communicate with the base station
  through a wireless Bluetooth connection.

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• Recycle Nation - An Environmental Improvement
  Program for Incentive Based Recycling (2005-2006
  Spring)
• Developed based on E-box and RFID
  technology. The project provides a mobile
  vehicular system to sort the garbage into
  recyclable and non-recyclable and further into
  metallic and nonmetallic items. The system then
  weighs different kinds of garbage based on
  address, thus providing proper monetary
  compensation to the consumer for beneficial
  recycling habits. All the statistical information
  is sent to the base station through wireless
  communication.

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Weight Sensor
Happy consumer
Ebox (Local Storage) and Wireless Bridge
Server (Central Storage)
RFID tagged receptacles
RFID Reader
Mobile Vehicle
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• Trash Master - System for Separation of
  Recyclables (2005-2006 Spring)
• Developed based on E-Box and RFID
  Tech. The system can recognize glass, ferrous
  metal, aluminum, and plastics from recyclable
  trash and put them into different bins, as they
  are moving on a conveyor belt. Their system can
  greatly improve the efficiency of recycling by
  accurate sorting.

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• Automated Warehouse Retrieval Robot (2005-2006
  Spring)
• Developed based on Handy Board and E-Box
• Automated Retrieval of Warehouse
• RFID Aided Navigation
• Wireless Communication with Server
• - For Dynamic Scheduling
• - For Traffic Control

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Hardware Layout for Robot
Ebox
Wireless Communication
RFID Reader
Handy Board
RFID Tags
Photo sensors
Motors
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Contests

• Imagine Cup Embedded Development
• Devices are becoming smaller, more
  portable and are having a greater impact on our
  everyday lives. Here is your opportunity to
  unleash your creativity and to change the world
  by developing your own embedded device.

See http//imaginecup.com/competition/mycompetiti
onportal.aspx?competitionid11
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Contests

• CSIDC 2008? If funding becomes available
• (Computer Society International Design
  Competition)
• encouraging teams of CSE
  undergraduate students to design and implement
  computer-based solutions to real-world problems.
  In particular, the system you develop should be
  of benefit to society.
• 2006 Team Prize 1st
  20,000
• 2nd 12,000
• 3rd 8,000
• Honorable 4,000

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Our History

• CSIDC 04
• Double Check
• Acoustic Scan
• Wireless Patient Management System (Final
  Round)
• Windows ChallengE05
• DRIIVE Network Dynamic Road and
  Intra/Inter-Vehicle Exchange Network (Final
  Round)

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Useful Link

• For finding various sensors and motors
• http//www.findchips.com/
• For finding various datasheets
• http//www.alldatasheet.net
• Chip Directory
• http//www.xs4all.nl/ganswijk/chipdir/