CSCE 491: Capstone Computer System Project Instructor: Jason D. Bakos

CSCE Introduction Goals of this course: –Use engineering principals to design and build a computer system –Work in teams –Written and oral communication skills Official course outcomes: –Refine a topic, formulate an approach, and solve computer engineering problems to achieve a project goal; –Manage time and efforts as a team to achieve a project goal; –Pursue an independent project under time and design constraints; –Develop effective written and oral skills to communicate among team members as well as with outsiders in a real-world styled environment; –Design a system, consisting of both hardware and software components, using the techniques, skills, and tools of modern computer engineering practice.

CSCE Platform Xilinx University Program (XUP) board from Digilent

CSCE Platform

CSCE ’s Place CSCE 313: Embedded Systems Lab –Design flow: Xilinx EDK –Design embedded system using the XUP board –Involves hardware design and writing systems software for PPC405/MicroBlaze/PicoBlaze CPUs CSCE 611: Conceptual Modeling Tools for CAD –Design flow: Mentor Graphics FPGA Advantage –Use hardware description language to design microprocessor CSCE 613: Fundamentals of VLSI Chip Design –Design flow: Cadence IC-Tools, Synopsys synthesis –Semiconductors, ASIC design-for-manufacturing CSCE 491: Capstone Computer System Project –Design flow: Xilinx/MATLAB System Generator for DSP –Design a “novel” hardware device

CSCE Project: Active Noise Cancelation PC case, rear projection TV, car console reference mic error mic F(x) adaptive algorithm noise anti-noise  student design quiet zone

CSCE Course Organization 12 students, 4 teams of 3 Approximate timeline: –Lectures for first week –2 tutorials Getting started with System Generator for DSP Audio filtering tutorial for whole design flow –Design work Find information Testing –Each group will present their progress twice during the semester –Final report, presentation, and demonstration at the end of the semester

CSCE System Generator for DSP Xilinx add-on for MATLAB Simulink Block-diagram interface for designing digital systems, esp. DSP systems Has special design tokens that perform FPGA-specific functions –VHDL generation, synthesis, place-and-route –Resource estimation

CSCE Design Components Toolbox that includes parameterizable primitives, including: –adder/substractor, multiplier –accumulator –shift register, LFSR –concat, slice, convert –counter –delay –DSP48 –RAM –constant –boolean logic, mux, shift –Microblaze/Picoblaze –LogicCore components –black box M-code blocks –MATLAB code can be converted to VHDL

CSCE Simulation Works with Simulink’s simulation system –Scopes –Spectrum analyzers –WAVE-IN, WAVE-OUT –Debugger –Waveform interface –Modelsim interface –To-Workspace

CSCE I/O, Clocking, and Data Types I/O is handled using gateway in/out blocks No explicit clock signals –“Sample rate” defined for Gateway blocks M-code blocks All primitives that have memory System Generator only supports –boolean (single bit) –signed and unsigned fixed-point –example: signed 6/4 fixed bit value: negate to become => - ( ) =>

CSCE AC97 We only need access to the audio interface of the board –2 input channels (amp/non-amp), 2 output channels (amp/non-amp) The audio jacks are connected directly to a National Instruments LM4550 chip –Performs A/D, D/A, power amplication –Sample rates from 4 – 48 KHz –18 bit Uses the AC97 (Audio Code) digital interface protocol –SDATA_IN, SDATA_OUT, BIT_CLK, SYNC –Operates at MHz

CSCE AC97

CSCE Wrapper Xilinx has designed a wrapper design for the XUP board for use with System Generator Includes AC97 controller –Provides a simple interface to the user design: audio_left_in, audio_right_in, audio_left_out, audio_right_out the FPGA clock is connected to the 24 MHz AC97 clock (can be downsampled) Disadvantage of wrapper –Name of user design must match that assumed by wrapper (“audio”) –Interface of user design must match that assumed by wrapper Cannot interface to anything else on the board Xilinx’s wrapper is not open source

CSCE M-code Block Implemented as a MATLAB function –Function inputs act as ports or block instance parameters Supports a subset of the MATLAB language –assignment statement –if/else/elseif statement –switch statement –add/sub/mult –divide by power of 2 –logical and relational operators “Bit twiddling” –ex: xl_slice(), xl_concat(), xl_and(), xl_lsh(), xl_force(), … Internal signals –Must use xfix() to convert parameters and scalers (both double) to fixed-point Memory –persistant, xl_state() –register, addressible memory, or “line of registers” (vector)