Computer Architecture Lab/Projects

This page lists project ideas for the CA architecture lab. However, these projects are not limited to CA lab, but can also be a starting point for a Bachelor or Masters thesis.

Project List

Most of the following projects are in the context of Patmos and Argo on the T-CREST platform. Advanced projects can lead to a research publication at a workshop.

• Roll your own microprocessor
• Add performance counter to Patmos and look into hybrid measurement and static WCET analysis
• Neural network accelerator connected to Patmos
• DDR controller for the DE2-115 - start with Edgar's work, port it to Chisel, and adapt for DE2-115
• A 'normal' NoC with shared address transactions, but still using TDM. With either only write, or read and write
• SD card connector, including same software to read and write files
• Time-triggered Ethernet
• VGA connector for a display
• Network-on-chip in Chisel
• Argo NoC in Chisel
• Hardware support for locking (CAS or LL/SC)
• Transactional memory (real-time)
• A normal NoC with standard wormhole routing
• Integrate the Berkeley hardfloat into Patmos and compare <https://github.com/ucb-bar/berkeley-hardfloat/blob/master/README.md>
• On shared SPMs - maybe change of ownership - there was a paper idea on this
• Cache with hit in hardware and miss in SW with a trap handler
• 2nd level cache
• Multicore processor with shared L2 cache and cache coherence to L1
• 2nd level SPM
• Trace port for Patmos (performance counters, including cache misses, memory,...)
• Debugging support for Patmos (gdb)
• Round robin arbiter with rate control (for mixed real-time systems)
• Floating point unit for Patmos
• Read in Argo (Pull)
• Real-time TCP/IP stack with WCET analysis
• SWEET analysis tool integration
• Out-of-order Patmos
• WCET analysis tool for Patmos
• uCLinux port to Patmos
• ArrayCache with JOP