CSEE 4840 Embedded System Design Spring 2024 |
Class meets Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:10 - 2:25 PM in 451 CSB.
Mudd 1235 is the lab, which is filled with Linux workstations. Registered students will receive accounts on these machines and 24-hour badge access to this room.
Do the labs in groups of two or three. Project groups should be 3-5 students; aim for 4.
Name | Office hours | Location | |
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Prof. Stephen A. Edwards | sedwards@cs.columbia.edu | By appt. | Online |
Martha Barker | mbarker@cs.columbia.edu | 1235 Mudd | |
Abhilash Ganga | ag4797@columbia.edu | M 3-5 | 1235 Mudd |
Vasileios Panousopoulos | vp2518@columbia.edu | T 12-2P | 1235 Mudd |
Marian Abuhazi | ma4107@columbia.edu | 1235 Mudd |
Prerequisites: ELEN E3910 or COMS W3843 or the equivalent. Embedded system architecture and programming. I/O, analog and digital interfacing, and peripherals. Weekly laboratory sessions and term project on design of a microprocessor-based embedded system including at least one custom peripheral. Knowledge of C programming and digital logic required. Lab required.
The goal of this class is to introduce you to issues in hardware/software interfacing, practical microprocessor-based system design issues such as bus protocols and device drivers, and practical digital hardware design using modern logic synthesis tools. You will put all of this to use in the lab where you will be given the opportunity to implement, using a combination of C and the SystemVerilog hardware description langauge, a small embedded system.
This is a lab course done in two parts. During the first part of the class, each student will implement the same "canned" designs designed by the instructor and be given substantial guidance. These are meant as an opportunity for you to learn the development tools and basic concepts. In the second part of the class, you will divide up into teams and each will design and implement a comparable project of their own with guidance from the instructor and TAs.
This course is a capstone in which students will integrate their knowledge of digital logic, programming, and system design to produce a real system. It is intended to complement ELEN 4340, Computer Hardware Design. 4840 focuses more on system-design issues and include a large section on hardware/software integration. Students in 4840 will use gates, processors, peripherals, software, and operating systems as building blocks.
CSEE 3827, Fundamentals of Computer Systems or the equivalent. You must understand digital logic design. Prior experience with hardware description languages, FPGAs, or embedded processors is not required.
COMS 3157, Advanced Programming or the l equivalent. Specifically, C programming experience. While 4840 will teach you advanced aspects of embedded C programming, you need to come in with significant C experience.
COMS W4823, Advanced Digital Logic Design. While not a formal prerequisite, you are strongly encouraged to take it. In it, you will learn advanced logic design and HDL coding, both of which are crucial to success in 4840.
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Wed Jan 17 | Introduction: Embedded Systems |
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Mon Jan 22 | SystemVerilog |
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Wed Jan 24 | (lecture cancelled) |
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Mon Jan 29 | SystemVerilog, via Zoom |
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Wed Jan 31 | SystemVerilog, contd. |
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Mon Feb 5 | Memory |
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Wed Feb 7 | " |
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Fri Feb 9 | Lab 1
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Mon Feb 12 | Networking, USB, and Threads |
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Mon Feb 19 | Video |
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Wed Feb 21 | Hardware/Software Interfaces |
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Mon Feb 26 | The Avalon Bus |
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Wed Feb 28 | Device Drivers |
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Fri Mar 1 | Lab 2
Files 16 GB SD Card Image |
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Mon Mar 4 | Qsys and IP Core Integration Debugging |
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Wed Mar 6 | Sprite Graphics Line drawing example Processors, FPGAs, and ASICs (1/2) Processors, FPGAs, and ASICs (2/2) Audio Waveforms |
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Mar 11-15 | Spring Break | ||
Mon Mar 18 | (no lectures going forward) |
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Fri Mar 22 | Lab 3
Hardware files Software FIles Kernel Module Env. |
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Fri Mar 29 | Design document | ||
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Mon Apr 15 | Design reviews |
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Wed Apr 17 | Design reviews |
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May 9 | Final Project Presentations |
You'll perform a design-it-yourself project in the second half of the class. There are five deliverables for the project:
Project teams should be three students or more.
This document should explain what you're going to build and how you're going to build it, but does not not need to include code. A corrected version of this document that reflects what you actually built should end up in your final project report.
Include the following things:
This is a critical part of the project and will be a substantial fraction of the grade.
Include the following sections:
Include all of this in a single .pdf file (don't print it out).
Also create a .tar.gz file (see the online documentation for the `tar' program to see how to create such a file. Briefly, create a file called `myfile' with the names of all the files you want to include in the archive and run tar zcf project.tar.gz `cat myfiles` to create the archive.) that just includes the files necessary to build your project, such as I did for the labs.
2048-Game:
(MB) Proposal Design Jingtian Lin, Kanghui Lin, and Yunhao Xing |
Audio-Visualizer:
(MA) Proposal Design Gaurav Agarwal, Maxwell Lavey, Yaagna Modi, and Manas Pange |
BameGoy:
GameBoy Clone (SE) Proposal Design Nicolas Alarcon, Claire Cizdziel, and Donovan Sproule |
Bomber-Man:
Videogame (AG) Proposal Design Natalie Hughes, Shiyan Wang, and Qian Zhao |
Bubble-Bobble:
Videogame (MB) Proposal Design Lance Chou, Qingyuan Liu, Ke Liu, and Hongzheng Zhu |
Crazy-Arcade:
(AG) Proposal Design Yuqi Lin, Yelin Mao, and Hongkuan Yu |
DaFPGASwitch:
Model Network Switch (SE) Proposal Design Lauren Mika Chin, Fathima Hakeem, Teng Jiang, Ilgar Mammadov, and Irfan Tamim |
Donkey-Kong:
(MB) Proposal Design Ines Khouider, Ania Krzyzanska, and Sean Stothers |
FASTRADE:
(VP) Proposal Design Yixuan Li, Wenbo Liu, Weitao Lu, and Xiaolei Zhao |
FFT:
(MA) Proposal Design Yucong Li, Yuxiao Qu, Ning Xia, and Yimin Yang |
FPGA-Cat-Invaders:
(MB) Proposal Design Adam Jablonski, Fernandos Magee Jr., Yilei Meng, Yuxiang Xia, and Zhili Yan |
FPGA-Tetris:
(AG) Proposal Design Chuyi Jiang and Xinzi Yu |
FPGA-music-mixer:
(MA) Proposal Design Joy He, Oliver MacGregor, Harrison Riley, and Joshua Zhou |
Gomoku:
(MB) Proposal Design Zixuan Fang, Yunzhou Li, Hongyu Sun, and Zhiwei Xie |
Guitar-Hero:
Rhythm videogame (MA) Proposal Design Kiryl Beliauski, Patrick Cronin, and Daniel Ivanovich |
HFT-Book-Builder:
(VP) Proposal Design Ameya Keshava Mallya, Shivam Shekhar, and Choka Thenappan |
Harmony-Hand:
Pitch bender (SE) Proposal Design Sanjay Rajasekharan, Maria Rice, and Steven Winnick |
LeNet-Classifier:
MNIST CNN Classifier (SE) Proposal Design Tharun Kumar Jayaprakash, Vasileios Panousopoulos, Prathmesh Patel, and Rishit Thakkar |
Mario:
(VP) Proposal Design Brandon Khadan, Bo Kizildag, and Nicholas de la Cruz |
Monster-Casino:
(VP) Proposal Design Shaokun Feng, Chenzhi Lu, and Zongwei Zhen |
Rhythm-Matching:
(MA) Proposal Qiuhong Chen, Yizhan Zhang, and Shifei Zheng |
Screaming-Bird:
(MB) Proposal Design Yiran Hu, Yang Li, Yuesheng Ma, and Chenyang Zhou |
Sequencer:
(MA) Proposal Design Brandon Cruz, Adrian Florea, and Alexander Ranschaert |
Snake-Game:
(AG) Proposal Design Saher Iqbal, Cristopher Marte Marte, Somya Mehta, and Rohan Rabbi |
Sound-Localizer:
(SE) Proposal Design Matheu Campbell, Elvis Wang, Peiran Wang, and Dawn Yoo |
Sports-Arbitrage:
(VP) Proposal Design Brennan McManus, Shivan Mukherjee, Jonathan Nalikka, Chelsea Soemitro, and Shreya Somayajula |
TankGo:
(AG) Proposal Design Annie Peng, Jiayi Wang, Yizhi Wang, and Xuanbo Xu |
My favorites
Mark Zwolinski. |
James K. Peckol. |
Grading | 30% Labs |
10% Milestone 1 | |
15% Milestone 2 | |
20% Milestone 3 | |
25% Final Report and presentation | |
Late Policy | Zero credit for anything handed in after it is due without explicit approval of the instructor. |
Collaboration Policy | Work in groups of three on the labs. You may consult others, but do not copy files or data. You may collaborate with anybody on the project, but must cite sources if you use code. |