EE382C Embedded Software Systems - Spring 2002 Projects

Prof. Brian L. Evans

This page describes the research projects that the students completed during the Spring 2002 semester. The projects were in the areas of

computer architecture (teams 1-3)
electronic design automation methods (team 4-5)
communication applications (teams 6-8)
video applications (teams 9-13)

Three projects lead to four published papers:

N. Petersen and M. Wojcik, "Node Prefetch Prediction in Dataflow Graphs", Proc. IEEE Int. Work. Signal Processing Systems, Oct. 13-15, 2004, Austin, Texas.
M. F. Sabir, R. Tripathi, B. L. Evans, and A. C. Bovik, "A Real-Time Embedded Software Implementation of a Turbo Encoder and Soft Output Viterbi Turbo Decoder", Proc. IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 3-6, 2002, vol. 2, pp. 1099-1103, Pacific Grove, CA USA.
K. Sato, B. L. Evans, and J. K. Aggarwal, "Designing an Embedded Video Processing Camera using a 16-bit Microprocessor for Surveillance System", Proc. IEEE Workshop on Digital and Computational Video, Nov. 14-15, 2002, pp. 151-158, Clearwater Beach, FL USA.
K. Sato, B. L. Evans, and J. K. Aggarwal, "Designing an Embedded Video Processing Camera using a 16-bit Microprocessor for a Surveillance System", Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, accepted for publication.

1	Jason Law	"Characterization of Native Signal Processing Extensions"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
2	David Armstrong	"Architectural Considerations for Network Processor Design"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
3	Vishal Mishra and Kursad Oney	"Predictive Block Dataflow Model for Parallel Computation"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
4	Newton Petersen and Martin Wojcik	"Node Prefetch Prediction in Dataflow Graphs"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
5	Anita Bateman and Travis Pouarz	"Extracting Petri Net Representation of Java Concurrency"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
6	Dogu Arifler, Ming Ding, and Zukang Shen	"Modeling and Simulation of Discretized Data Transmission in Very High-Speed Digital Subscriber Line"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
7	Sayantan Choudhury	"Modeling and Simulation of a Turbo Encoder and Decoder for Wireless Communication Systems"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
8	M. Farooq Sabir and Rashmi Tripathi	"Implementation of an Unequal Error Protection Scheme for Scalable Foveated Image Communication"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
9	Wei Li and Zhenxun Xiao	"System Modeling and Implementation of MPEG-4 Encoder with Fine Granularity Scalability Framework"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
10	Kevin Baldor and Sue Baldor	"Video Transcoder Architectures and Techniques"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
11	Gayathri Venkat and Mrudula Yadav	"Modeling and Simulation of H.26L Encoder"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
12	Serene Banerjee	"H.26L Video Server Model Using Computational Process Networks"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report
13	Koichi Sato	"Designing Intelligent Surveillance Camera System"	Briefing	Survey	Presentation	Final Report

Here is a listing of where the above students are now:

Dogu Arifler: finished Ph.D.E.E. in May 2004 under direction of Profs. Brian L. Evans and Gustavo de Veciana, and currently is an Assistant Professor at Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta, Cyprus
David Armstrong: Ph.D.E.E. student under Prof. Yale N. Patt, UT Austin
Kevin Baldor: Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX
Sue Baldor: Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX
Serene Banerjee: finished Ph.D.E.E. in May 2004 under Prof. Brian L. Evans, and currently works as a System Design Engineer for Texas Instruments in Bangalore, India
Anita Bateman: IBM, Austin, TX
Sayantan Choudhury: Ph.D.E.E. student, UC Santa Barbara
Ming Ding: finished Ph.D.E.E. in August 2004 under the supervision of Prof. Brian L. Evans, and currently works as a System Design Engineer at Broadcom in San Jose, California USA
Jason Law: MSEE student under Prof. Lizy K. John, UT Austin
Wei Li: Ph.D.C.S. student, UT Austin
Vishal Mishra: MSEE student under Prof. Craig Chase, UT Austin
Kursad Oney: MSEE student under Prof. Margarida Jacome, UT Austin
Newton Petersen: National Instruments, Austin, TX
Travis Pouarz: IBM, Austin, TX
M. Farooq Sabir: Finished PhD in May 2006 under the supervision of Profs. Alan C. Bovik and Prof. Robert W. Heath, Jr.
Koichi Sato: Finished PhD in May 2006 under the supervision of Prof. J. K. Aggarwal, and currently works as a Project Manager for Create Technologies in San Jose, California USA
Zukang Shen: Finished PhD in May 2006 under the supervision of Profs. Jeff Andrews and Brian L. Evans, and currently works as a System Design Engineer at Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas USA
Rashmi Tripathi: MSEE alumnus, UT Austin
Gayathri Venkat: MS student in Library Science, UT Austin
Martin Wojcik: Cirrus Logic, Austin, TX
Mrudula Yadav: MS student in Library Science, UT Austin
Zhenxun Xiao: Ph.D.C.S. student, UT Austin

Last updated 08/10/06.