Cornell University FPGA Class Projects for 2008

Matt writes "The new crop of Cornell University ECE 5760 projects are now online. Some really cool projects, as well as the previous two years' worth of projects." Since it's mid-December, many other schools, too, have either just let out or are about to; can you point to any other online collections of cool technical projects?

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Re:Wasted CPU Cycles

[Anonymous Coward]

Or the FPGA implementation of a bouncing breasts simulator.

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Re:Wasted CPU Cycles

[larry bagina]

For those that don't know, trepanation is a medical procedure (of dubious value) where a hole is drilled in the skull to relieve pressure, although in this case, someone may have defecated in the opening instead. It's not clear if this is an insult (implying "shit for brains", so to speak), if the poster is concerned about illegal, unlicensed, and unsanitary medical procedures taking place, or if the poster is seeking someone to perform this procedure.

UIUC ECE Senior Design

[jbf]

http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece445/?g=Home&p=Projects&c=Featured%20Projects

Includes some crazy stuff like a photographing UAV, a PC-based oscilloscope, and a combination lock brute-forcer.

I'm eFamous!

[mach7]

I'm in this class. I worked on the Speaker Recognition project. It was very hard. Some comments and responses to other posts:

• This is not a shitty program. In fact, it's probably one of the top programs in Cornell Engineering.
• Both this class and the microcontroller class are taught by Bruce Land, an excellent professor. He's been at Cornell forever and knows just about everything.
• Bear in mind that these projects were done in 4-5 weeks and this is only one of several courses that each student takes.
• No one goes to the library for books any more. In five years at Cornell, I've had to get a library book once to find something I couldn't find online.
• Wikipedia is an excellent reference. If nothing else, it is useful as a platform for finding the keywords necessary to more fully investigate a subject.
• Our project does reference "real" publications - these are easily found using Google Scholar.

If you have any questions about the class, I'd be happy to answer them.

Re:Oh, wow

[kelnos]

Hear, hear. As a guy with an ECE degree who now writes software for a living, I constantly marvel at how different the two disciplines are, and how most "software engineering" strikes me as... not really engineering.

While it's true that it's possible to mathematically prove many pieces of software to be correct (heh, or to mathematically prove them incorrect, as would be the case with most software out there), it's pretty rarely done. To be fair, it's incredibly difficult with most non-trivial programs, of course.

But there's something incredibly satisfying and elegant about having a hardware design that you can prove is correct.

Now, of course, many other things can horribly break that design (yay for analog effects, process deficiencies and defects, etc.), but that's a far cry from "well, it compiles, so it'll probably work." But that's reality for ya.