Hi,

Thank you for initiating the project. I think the first thing to do is look at the Getting Started milestone. 

We have organised the design flow area of the SoC Labs site to give a clear set of steps that can be followed to get from where we are now in starting the project to a final tape out. 

The getting started page shows you how to add milestones to your project (just edit the project and select them).

It also gets you to establish the project environment needed, such as access to Electronic Design Automation tools, source control systems, access to the nanoSoC reference design, etc.

Getting Started is part of Architectural Design and this is another milestone you can add.  It starts to determine the various considerations needed to plan the system such as data movement, memory, system throughput, etc. 

It would be good to get an idea of the video data movement requirements in your proposed system. 

I hope this helps us get started...

John.

Thanks for signing up to SoC Labs. 

We are here to help,

John.

Thank you for updating the milestones on this project. Reading the conclusion is could be seen that this project is coming towards a point where it will be used in other projects. Does this mean that this project had no further milestones or are their any planned?

John.

It was great to meet you yesterday and here about your MSc project in designing a Low-Power Fixed-Point Compressed Sensing Accelerator for ECG Signals and also your interest in formal verification. It seems you have selected some good design flow stages as interests. With V3 of nanoSoC there is a new subsystem for ethernet based off chip comms and that might be an interesting subsystem to use alongside your own custom compression accelerator. Understanding the energy use of each subsystem should help you understand the benefit of your compression scheme within the broader SoC energy costs.

Look forward to collaborating on this project with you.

John.

Hi,

Sorry for the delay in welcoming you to SoC Labs. It is great that you have signed up, I see you have added accelerators as an interest. I would be interested in hearing a little more about what you are thinking of developing as a project within SoC Labs and how we might help you.

We look forward to hearing from you,

John.

Hi,

Thank you for signing up to SoC Labs. It would be great to know what you are interested in and how we can help you. 

We look forward to hearing from you.

John.

Hi,

Thank you for signing up to SoC Labs. I would be interested in hearing a little more about what you are thinking of developing as a project within SoC Labs and how we might help you.

We look forward to hearing from you,

John.

Hi,

Thank you for signing up to SoC Labs. I would be interested in hearing a little more about what you are thinking of developing as a project within SoC Labs and how we might help you.

We look forward to hearing from you,

John.

Hi,

It was great to meet today and we discussed starting a project within SoC Labs. This is quite an easy thing to do. You already have a description of your project and this can be changed as it develops. Please take a look at some of the other projects on the SoC Labs site. I would very much recommend the project on sensing by Sydney.

Once you can see how to describe your project then the way to add your projects is Add Project action in the naviagtion.

You then add a description of the project and an image. Again these can be changed and also when you submit to Editorial, we can help review and improve your description. You can start it and save it in Drafts as needed before you are ready to send to Editorial.

The Project has a project tracker in it.

These are based on the various stages in the design flows for a SoC Labs project.  You should add the Getting Started milestone and the Architectural Design milestone as we discussed these today. Just start to type this in the field and they should  auto complete.

Let us know how you get along and if there are any issues.

John.

Hi,

It was an interesting discussion today and David Mapstone started to lay out some of the likely issues around SoC Architectural Design and the engineering constraints that help etermine the architecture. As discussed while the core of the MSc project is about the specific implementation of the compression algorithm the broader SoC architecture is about how that compression sub-system is fed with data from the upstream (eg. actual sensor data or simulated sensor data from prior captured data base of samples) and how it feeds downstream into off chip comms to either form the function of an edge based battery driven device or more simple to prove the compression sub-system.

I always think it is important to state the design rationale and the engineering constraints as clearly as possible at the Architectural Design so we can develop the design in the right direction.

John.