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Interfacing with the Arm PL022 within a cocotb testbench

The Arm PL022 provides an interface for synchronous serial communication with peripheral devices connected to the  SoC via the Advanced Peripheral Bus (APB). It supports a choice of interface operation, Motorola compatible Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), National Semiconductor Microwire, or Texas Instruments synchronous serial interface. See the Techology page for details. 

Competition 2024
Competition: Hardware Implementation
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Arrhythmia Analysis Accelerator : A-Cube

We propose the A-Cube design methodology to create medical decision support on the edge. The design and implementation of an atrial fibrillation detector hardware core was selected as a proof-of-concept study. To facilitate the required atrial fibrillation functionality, we adopted an established AI model, based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) technology for hardware implementation. The adaptation was done by varying design parameters such as data window and the number of LSTM units.

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Basic PLL with TSMC 65nm

To design and verify a simple PLL for use as generator of clock signals in System on Chip design. The desired outcome from this project should be the following:

Clock generation for frequencies between 60 MHz and 1.2 GHzInclude PLL-lock signal for system start upLow clock uncertainty below 5% (transition time and jitter)Integer clock divider which can be updated at run timeMinimal area

The resulting IP for these component blocks will be made available to the soclabs community for the upcoming design contest.

Competition 2024
Competition: Collaboration/Education
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A digital audio dynamic range compression accelerator for mixed-signal SoC
Compression Overview

The dynamic range processor is a DSP function which does as it says on the tin; it compresses the dynamic range of the incoming signal. This is used most commonly in the music industry for its effects on the perceived loudness of audio. It is also used extensively in hearing aids to compensate for the user’s reduced dynamic range of hearing. In this project a hardware accelerator is developed for the purpose of dynamic range compression of digital audio. This accelerator will be implemented in a mixed-signal infrastructure.