1/28/08 - Discussion - Stiquito Controlled and the MSP430

• The Presentation on the MSP430 and Stiquito for the TI Developers Conference
• Instructions for downloading the TI430 Tools and Programming the Stiquito board
• TI MSP430 User's Guide
• TI Product Selection Guide
• The Stiquito board schematic
• The Stiquito board layout

1/30/08 and 2/4/08 - Software Development

• The transparencies for Software Development

2/6/08 - Project Management

• The transparencies for Project Management
• Go here to see some Project Management Documents used by Senior Design

2/11/08 - Fun Peripherals

• The transparencies for Fun Peripherals

2/13/08 - Floating Point and Fixed Point Math

• The transparencies for Floating Point and Fixed Point Math

2/18/08 - Floating point and fixed point math (continued)

2/20/08 - Floating point and fixed point math (continued)

2/25/08 - Exam #1

2/27/08 - Lab 4 discussion and Architecture identification

3/10/08 - Lab 4 discussion

3/12/08 - Cancelled - Students did not read papers  

3/17/08 - ZigBee and IEEE 802.14.4 - in class discussions

• Circuit Cellar Ink Feb 2005 article - ZigBee Tutorial Part 1
• Circuit Cellar Ink Mar 2005 article - ZigBee Tutorial Part 2
• Embedded.com:  Home networking with ZigBee
• IEEE:  Home Networking with IEEE 802.15.4:  A Developing Standard for Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks
•   Presentation on 802.15.4 & ZigBee

3/19/08 - Lab 5 description

3/24/08 - Presentations

• Discussed presentations
• Use this PowerPoint template for all presentations.
• Important points:  10-12 minutes, 10 slides, DO NOT include a slide that says "Questions?", put TECHNICAL materials in the slides (schematics, code listings)
• Also, covered what to include in the lab exercises.

3/26/08 - Paper presentations

• Rahul Sharma - Design of a Real-Time Virtual Machine (RTVM):  Paper and Presentation
• Robin Pottathuparambil - CORDIC Algorithms for FPGA-based Designs:  Paper and Presentation
• Richard McKinney - Mobile Robot Positioning:  Paper and Presentation

3/31/08 - Paper presentations

• Aby Kuruvilla - Haptics:   Presentation
• Paper   (Potential of Haptics)
• Paper   (Haptics in Surgery)
• Paper   (Haptics in Gamming)
• Haptics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic
• Why haptics: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/08/46192
• How Haptics Will Change the Way We Interact With Machines?: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4253368.html
• Sharayu Ghangrekar - Fault Tolerance Capabilities of Embedded Systems:  Paper and Presentation
• Tran Viet Phong - A Visual Servoing System for Tracking Moving Objects:  Paper and Presentation

4/2/08 - Paper presentations

• Malcolm Zapata - Interoperable Robotic Software:  Paper and Presentation
• Shweta Jain - Cryptography in Embedded Systems:  Paper and Presentation
• Anagha Basole - Universal Remote Control:  Paper and Presentation

4/7/08 - Paper presentations

• Sid Ahuja - Embedded Control System for VTOL Aircrafts:  Paper and Presentation
• Thomas Meiswinkel - Teaching firmware as the bridge between hardware and software:  Paper and Presentation

4/9/08 - Paper presentations

• Adam Wickersham - Efficient Micro Mathematics:  Paper (March 2008 Circuit Cellar Ink pp. 60-xx) and Presentation
• Nripendra Singh - Bluetooth in Transportation:  Paper and Presentation
• Rohit Kale - RFID Payment Terminal:  Paper (February 2008 Circuit Cellar Ink pp. 34-43) and Presentation
• Liu Hu - Sensor Network Home Array:  Paper and Presentation

4/14/08 - Paper presentations

• Kristen Reband - Designing for Hostile Environments:  Paper (January 2008 Circuit Cellar Ink pp. 60-67) and Presentation
• Joel Pritchard - Tile Graphics:  Paper (December 2007 Circuit Cellar Ink pp. 12-19) and Presentation
• Michael McClain - Navigating the Heavens:  Paper (March 2008 Circuit Cellar Ink pp. 69-72)  and Presentation
• Amit Kumar - Embedded Wireless Mini-Server with Database support:  Paper and Presentation

4/16/08 - Paper presentations

• Monil Neema - Energy Harvesting:  Paper1 ,  Paper2 and Presentation
• Andy Schmidt - Big Dog Robot:  Paper and Presentation
• Will Kritikos - Field Programmable Analog Arrays:  Paper and Presentation
• Shanyuan Gao - High Performance Space Computing:  Paper and Presentation

4/21/08 - Exam 2

4/23/08 - Paper presentations

• Shrenik Mehta - Packbot:  Paper1 , Paper2 and Presentation
• Kailash Toshniwal - Hybrid Structure Robot:  Paper and Presentation
• Yashodhan Phatak - uCLinux-based Embedded Browser:  Paper and Presentation
• Ankush Harit - SD card display controller:  Paper  (December 2007 Circuit Cellar Ink pp. 40-45) and Presentation

4/28/08 - End of semester Recap