https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/ 2026-04-20T13:56:03-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/ https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2013-12-20T14:49:29-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:assembly_car&rev=1387568969&do=diff FIXME Not enough cats. Some Assembly Required Comp Arch Fall 2013 final project [Is Assembly Required: Yes] Team: Charles Goddard (2015), Victoria Coleman (2015), Eric Tappan (2015) What We Did We created an autonomous robot that explores the world in linear trajectories while avoiding obstacle using IR range-finding. text/html 2013-12-19T23:38:47-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:binary_clock&rev=1387514327&do=diff Binary Clock by Emily Wang ('16) and Sophia Seitz ('16) Computer Architecture, Fall 2013 What did we do? For our Computer Architecture final project, we made a clock that tells the time in binary using Verilog, a Spartan 3 FPGA, and some LEDS. Quite spiffy indeed. text/html 2013-12-19T23:19:37-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:cordic_algorithm&rev=1387513177&do=diff CORDIC Implementation Made by: Claire Barnes What did you do? For my final project, I decided to implement the CORDIC algorithm in Verilog. The CORDIC algorithm implements trigonometric, hyperbolic, and logarithmic functions in digital logic using only bit-shifts, additions (and subtractions), and one look up table. I was only able to implement the sine and cosine functions. My reach goal was to implement log in any base, but I did not have time. So I focused on sine and cosine and creating a… text/html 2013-12-19T23:35:57-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:cpu_display&rev=1387514157&do=diff Central Processing Unit a display of not-so-black boxes By: Lyra Silverwolf What I Did I built a display/diorama of an entire computer Central Processing Unit (CPU) out of nested cardboard boxes. At the highest level of abstraction are the 5 major information stages a CPU is commonly divided into: instruction fetching, instruction decoding, the register file, the arithmetic logic unit (ALU), and data memory. I chose these particular stages for the CPU, because in a pipeline CPU when multi… text/html 2013-12-15T17:08:05-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:example&rev=1387145285&do=diff This is an example project page for a project that doesn't exist. You can make your own (for projects that do exist) by creating a link ([[projects:My_project|creating a link]]) then using the edit option on the resulting article. Neato. You can look at the source for this page using the edit button over there somewhere text/html 2013-12-17T23:32:12-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:fibre-optic_video_transmission_for_aircraft_implementation&rev=1387341132&do=diff Fibre Optic Video Transmission for Aircraft: Implementation By Steven Cooreman What did you do? I made a blazing fast video signal converter in VHDL. Traditionally, transmission of critical video signals in aircraft has been done as an analog signal over copper coaxial cable. However, as manufacturers look for new ways to reduce the take-off weight of aircraft, the focus has been shifted to Plastic Optical Fiber (POF). This requires a new protocol to transmit video, because optical fiber can… text/html 2013-12-30T18:27:45-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:fpga_note_generator&rev=1388446065&do=diff FPGA Note Generator by Caitlin Riley What I Did [Note Generator] I turned my FPGA into an instrument capable of playing eight notes. The eight switches on the FPGA are set to correspond to a note in an A natural minor scale. When a switch is on, the FPGA outputs an 8-bit quantized sine wave corresponding to that note. The sine wave is then converted into an analog signal that drives a speaker. A video of it working can be downloaded text/html 2013-12-19T21:36:14-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:fpga_piano&rev=1387506974&do=diff FPGA Piano Made by: Mason del Rosario, Evan Dorsky, Rahil Dedhia, Jamie Gorson, Jack Fan What did you do? For our final project, we decided to program an FPGA to play simple music. We attempted to implement two different kinds of modes: a free-play mode where the user was able to play a combination of seven different notes in a major scale and a song mode where a predetermined song would play. In order to produce different notes, we divided the FPGA's clock by different values which yielded t… text/html 2013-12-19T10:21:32-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:fpga_tuner&rev=1387466492&do=diff FPGA Tuner by Claire Keum, Lisa Ventura Here's a link to our website: Computer Architecture FA13 FPGA Tuner Final Report is included in the website. If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email: <ayoung.keum@students.olin.edu><lventura@wellesley.edu> text/html 2014-01-12T15:39:43-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:gpu_cpu_feed_forward_neural_net&rev=1389559183&do=diff GPU / CPU feed forward neural net implementation Link to github of project: <https://github.com/lukemetz/Neural-Net-Experiments> Drop me a email at: luke.s.metz<<at>>gmail<dot>com if you have questions or comments! text/html 2013-12-19T22:19:24-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:gpu_exploration&rev=1387509564&do=diff GPU Exploration: : A Learn and Teach Final Project By Chloe Eghtebas Note: I took advantage of the write up being on the wiki. Each link embedded in the text is a part of my write up so be sure to click on them all! Click on my documentation to start! What I did text/html 2013-12-18T19:45:54-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:latent_dirichlet_allocation&rev=1387413954&do=diff Example text/html 2013-12-19T01:02:08-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:logic_blox&rev=1387432928&do=diff LOGIC BLOX ---------- Sorry for the bare-bones wiki page. Check out the writeup. I promise it's not dry and boring. Also, you'll learn how to make your own Logic Blox from the files provided. They're really pretty! ---------- ---------- Mid-project slideshow presentation. text/html 2013-12-20T08:55:26-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:matrix_multiplier&rev=1387547726&do=diff Matrix Multiplier Gredelston and Jangowitz What did we do? Matrix multipliers!! We created a hardware implementation for a matrix multiplier, and also implemented the multiplier in assembly. In this particular case, we limited our multiplier to text/html 2013-12-18T20:29:48-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:mechanical_logic_from_common_materials&rev=1387416588&do=diff Abstract For our Computer Architecture final, we (Chris Joyce and Brendan Ritter) created mechanical logic gates as part of a lesson plan on computers for middle-school aged children. Detailed instructions on how to build the gates described in this document can be found at the bottom of the page. text/html 2013-12-20T00:23:14-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:optimization_of_a_pipelined_cpu&rev=1387516994&do=diff Optimizing a Pipelined CPU Brendan Caporaletti, Chelsea Bailey, Jeffrey Hanford Code: <https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ulskrgce5xltpq/CPU_ResourceFiles.zip> The Vision We made an optimized, 32-bit Pipelined CPU with features including: hazard avoidance, branch prediction, and MIPS compliance. We began by creating a working 32-bit CPU with static branch prediction and data forwarding that was not quite compliant with MIPS architecture. The goal of this project was to use that CPU as a base for ex… text/html 2013-12-18T23:43:41-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:pipelined_cpu_hazards_eliminated&rev=1387428221&do=diff Pipelined CPU, hazards eliminated By Shivam Desai, Kris Groth, Sarah Strohkorb, Eric Westman What did you do? We used this project as an opportunity to model and simulate a pipelined CPU. Pipelining a CPU increases efficiency significantly by dividing up the different functional chunks of the processor and assigning a different task to each one. There are five such functional stages in our processor: Instruction Fetch (IF), Instruction Decode (ID), Execute (EX), Memory (MEM), and Writeback (… text/html 2014-01-12T15:36:26-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:projects&rev=1389558986&do=diff Stuff must be here soon. For previous years, please reference ca.olin.edu. Example ---------- Assembly Car Binary Clock CORDIC Algorithm CPU Display Fibre-optic video transmission for aircraft implementation FPGA Note Generator FPGA Piano FPGA Tuner GPU Exploration GPU/CPU Feed Forward Neural Net Latent Dirichlet Allocation Logic Blox Matrix Multiplier Mechanical Logic From Common Materials Optimization of a Pipelined CPU Pipelined CPU, hazards eliminated RFID Exp… text/html 2013-12-19T18:02:56-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:rfid_exploration&rev=1387494176&do=diff RFID Exploration Louis Yi, Mary Ruthven, Kevin O'Toole, & Jay Patterson What did you do? We made an Radio Frequency ID (RFID) card reader and, while attempting to create a long-range spoofer, created an jammer which overcomes card's signals. The reader uses filtering circuitry following a 125kHz driven resonator to produce the returned FSK signal from the HID brand RFID proximity cards used around Olin college. Reading was initially performed by capturing data with an oscilloscope and then p… text/html 2013-12-20T09:43:36-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:snap_circuits&rev=1387550616&do=diff Snap Circuits For questions, please contact Nicole.Rifkin@students.olin.edu or Mitchell.Cieminski@students.olin.edu LOGIC GATES: Logic gates take in some number of inputs, where each input is a binary value: a true input is represented with a 1, and means that some voltage is supplied. A false input is represented with a 0, and means that there is no voltage supplied. Logic gates always have an output that is dependent on the inputs. A logic gate’s behavior is represented with a truth table, … text/html 2013-12-19T14:55:44-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:sorting_algorithms_in_assembly&rev=1387482944&do=diff Here is the link to the super duper fancy website for the project: <http://sortingalgorithmsinassembly.weebly.com/> Please feel free to send any questions to thomas.nattestad@students.olin.edu text/html 2014-01-03T11:16:11-04:00 https://wikis.olin.edu/ca/doku.php?id=projects:unicycle_lights&rev=1388765771&do=diff Unicycle Lights Computer Architecture, Fall 2013 Heather Boortz ---------- What I made unicycle lights using an FPGA. I made several different patterns of lights, and wrote the code such that it is easy for other users to add their own patterns. The switches on the FPGA board choose the pattern. Both the LEDs on the FPGA board as well as external LEDS can be controlled. A video can be viewed here: