Dr R. James Duckworth

ECE Department, WPI

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Undergraduate Course Information

· ECE 3810: Advanced Digital System Design

Graduate Course Information

· ECE 574: Modeling and Synthesis of digital systems using Verilog and VHDL

· ECE579X: Advanced Digital Design, Verification and Test using HDLs’

· ECE57X: Reconfigurable Computing using FPGAs – New Spring 2007

Short Course

· Embedded System Design using FPGAS with VHDL and Verilog

Research Projects

· Precision Personnel Locator Project

· Wearable Ultrasound System

· Wearable Pulse-Ox System

Robot Projects

· Mars Exploration Rover

· Search and Rescue Robot

· Autonomous Mapping Robot

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Useful links for VHDL and FPGA related material

· Xilinx website

o Link to Spartan 3 devices: http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xil_prodcat_landingpage.jsp?title=Spartan-3

o Picoblaze soft processor: http://www.xilinx.com/products/design_resources/proc_central/grouping/picoblaze.htm

· Digilent website – manufacturer of Spartan 3 Starter Board

o Spartan 3 board brochure: http://www.digilentinc.com/Data/Products/S3BOARD/S3BOARD-brochure.pdf

o Spartan 3 board manual: http://www.digilentinc.com/Data/Products/S3BOARD/S3BOARD-rm.pdf

o Spartan 3 board schematic: http://www.digilentinc.com/Data/Products/S3BOARD/S3BOARD-sch.pdf

· For tutorials see my graduate course page ECE 574 (link above)

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Professional

• ECE Department
• My official home page
• Workview Office Student Edition published by Prentice Hall
• VHDL and Verilog short courses (emphasis on synthesis to Xilinx FPGAs)

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Dr R. James Duckworth
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tel: 508 831-5204
rjduck@wpi.edu

Last Modified: January 10, 2005