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| − | A key feature of our biomedical acquisition and processing platform is standalone operation: The system must be able to provide all required supply voltages and clock frequencies without external components in order to use it in wearable and even implantable in-vivo applications. Furthermore, the three involved uControllers (PULP, pulpino and a commercial radio SoC) must load their program code (that must also be up-gradable) from non-volatile storage at startup once all supplies and clocks are ready. The commercial radio SoC has integrated flash memory for this purpose; our two own ASICs share the discrete multi-Gigabit NAND flash that is also used for data storage.
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| − | We have all the key ingredients for standalone operation in place (programmable voltage converters, oscillators and boot loaders); in this project you are going to put them all together and create the missing control software/firmware. The goal is to demonstrate startup and operation of the platform with only a Li-ion battery connected.
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| − | In this thesis you will learn:
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| − | *Firmware management in multi-chip systems
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| − | *Details and challenges of bootloaders/boot binaries
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| − | *Startup and synchronization challenges in complex embedded systems
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| − | ===Status: Available ===
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| − | We are looking for 1-2 motivated Semester Thesis/Group Work students <br>
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| − | Contact: [[:User:Glaserf | Florian Glaser]]
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| − | ===Prerequisites===
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| − | *Some experience with embedded/low level software
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| − | *Interest in embedded systems and uControllers
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| − | ===Status: Completed ===
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| − | : Fall Semester 2014 (sem13h2)
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| − | : Matthias Baer, Renzo Andri
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| − | : Supervision: [[:User:Belfanti | Sandro Belfanti]]
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| − | ===Character===
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| − | *20% Concept
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| − | *40% Embedded software design
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| − | *40% Experiments/Measurements
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