EE382C Embedded Software Systems - Spring 2000 Projects

Prof. Brian L. Evans

This page describes the research projects that the students have proposed for the Spring 2000 semester. The projects are in the areas of

Projects 1-2: native signal processing
Projects 3-7: electronic design automation methods
Projects 8-14: applications (ADSL transceiver design, ultrawideband transceiver, audio compression, image processing, and video compression)

Projects 2 and 14 have been published at the 2000 IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.

Waqas Akram works full-time at Cirrus Logic in Austin, TX.
Ken Aponte works full-time at Motorola in Austin, TX.
Patrick Brown works full-time at nVidia in Santa Clara, CA.
David Brunke works full-time at the UT Applied Research Labs in Austin, TX.
Young Cho is a Ph.D.E.E. student at UCLA.
Niranjan Damera-Venkata works full-time at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA.
Ruiqi Hu is a Ph.D.C.S. student at UT Austin.
Vijay Kishen works full-time at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, in the real-time collaboration group.
Chase Krumpelman is a Ph.D.E.E. student at UT Austin under Prof. Joydeep Ghosh.
Sresth Kumar works full-time at Intel in Austin, TX.
Ken Logan works full-time at Motorola in Austin, TX.
Sadia Malik works full-time at National Instruments in Austin, TX.
Raghu Raj works full-time at Motorola in Austin, TX.
Ram Rajagopal is a Ph.D.E.E. student at the University of California in Berkeley, CA.
Vikram Sardesai works full-time at Microsoft in Redmond, WA.
Hamid Sheikh is a Ph.D.E.E. student at UT Austin.
Magesh Valliappan works full-time at Cicada Semiconductor in Austin, TX.
Shi Zhong is an Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

1	Ken Aponte and Ken Logan	"Native Signal Processing with Altivec in the Ptolemy Environment"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
2	David Brunke and Young Cho	"Optimization of Vertical and Horizontal Beamforming Kernels on the PowerPC G4 Processor"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
3	Waqas Akram	"Application-Specific Digital Filter Synthesis Using Fine-Grain Data-flow Graphs"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
4	Arnab Basu and Vijay Kishen	"An Implementation of Process Networks in Java"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
5	Ruiqi Hu	"A Study of the Timed Asynchronous Model and Its Application in TTP Implementation"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
6	Sresth Kumar, Vikram Sardesai, and Hamid Sheikh	"CGC6000: Ptolemy Code Generation Domain for TI TMS320C6000"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
7	Sadia Malik and Ram Rajagopal	"LabVIEW Based Embedded Design"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
8	Kripa Venkatachalam and Qiu Wu	"Design and simulation of an ADSL transmitter"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
9	Magesh Valliappan	"Simulation and Modeling of an ADSL Modem -- Channel Model and Receiver Initialization"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
10	Vikas Agarwal, Rajagopalan Desikan, and Karthikeyan Sankaralingam	"ADSL Receiver Modeling"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
11	Mohit Jalori and Raghu Raj	"System Level Design of Time-Hopping Impulse Modulation"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
12	Patrick Brown	"Modeling of an MPEG Layer-3 Encoder and Decoder in Ptolemy"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
13	Niranjan Damera-Venkata and Chase Krumpelman	"Modeling and Simulation of a JBIG2 Compliant Color Printer Pipeline"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
14	Chen He and Shi Zhong	"Modeling and Simulation of MPEG-4 Encoder"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report

Final projects will be reported on the following days.

Time	May 2nd	May 4th
6:35 PM	Team 1	Team 8
6:45 PM	Team 2	Team 9
6:55 PM	Team 3	Team 10
7:05 PM	Team 4	Team 11
7:15 PM	Team 5	Team 12
7:25 PM	Team 6	Team 13
7:35 PM	Team 7	Team 14

Last updated 03/29/04.