ELG4911 – Electrical Engineering Project (Winter 2008)

Professor: Misbah Islam

• Course Outline:

Classes: Sports E218

Tuesday: 4:00 - 5:30 PM

Thursday: 2:30 - 4:00 PM

Labs: STE 2061

Wednesday: 7:00-10:00 PM

Thursday: 8:30-11:30 AM

Final Report, Project Demonstration and Presentations (New)

· Dates and Schedule:

· Report Guidelines:

· Demos and Presentation Guidelines:

PEO Contest Winners (new)

1. Multilayer Perceptron model for Satellite communication, 2004

2. ARISE Helicopter Autonomous Control System, 2005

3. Stance Control Knee-Ankle-Foot Orthosis, 2007

List of Deliverables:

Deliverable	Completion Date
Project Review (Strengths and weaknesses)	January 17
HLD for Implementation	January 29
Software Architecture Plan and Work Assignment	February 5
Code Review	February 27
Progress Report 1: Test Case design: Functionality, Robustness	February 28
Progress Report 2: Productization, EMC & Packaging	March 26
Project Presentations	April 8, 9, 10
Project Demonstrations	April 10
Final Report Submission	April 14

Status Report: Sent by the Team Leader every two weeks on Friday to the TA

It must include the work done, technical challenges and team issues (if any).

(2 points will be deducted, if the report is not sent)

TUTORIALS:

• USEFUL Tutorials
• Adapt Microcontroller Tutorial
• Altera UP3 Development Board Manual

• Code Development on MPLAB for PIC (New)

- Running CCS under MPLAB (New)

• Code Development on Code Warrior
• Example HC12 Code

- MyHello

- MyLCD

- MyTimer

- MyTerminal

- ETracking

- PWMSCI

• CMU Camera Introduction

- CMU Cam Manual

- CMU Cam SDK

Lectures

· Introduction to Testing (new)

• Performance Improvement

· Robustness Enhancement

Productization

· Use of Colour in GUI (new)

· Introduction to Costing

• Introduction to EMC

• Final Report Example: Automatic Audio Surround Shifter

• Final Presentation Example: Wireless Blood Pressure Measurement

• Micro Controller Coding Examples

• ELG4392 Project Guide Book (PDF)

• Lab Rules:

• Additional Lab Space:

• Office Hours: Thurs 11:30 - 12:30 PM

• Announcement: Professional Engineers Ontario, Student Paper Contest

• MIDTERM PROGRESS REPORT

SCHEDULE: Presentations, Demos and Report Submission:

• GUIDELINES & RULES: Presentations, Demos and Final Report:

• An Example Presentation (Kalman Filter)

• Teaching Assistants

TAs	Specialty	Email
David Chen	Image Processing, HC12,	qingchen@site.uottawa.ca
Raymond Peterkin	DB2, Cyclone, VHDL, Verilog	peterkin@site.uottawa.ca
Md. Altaf Hossain	CMU, HC12	ahossain@site.uottawa.ca

TEAMS:

All Project Teams

PROJECTS

New Projects Current Semester

List of All ELG4911 Projects

Selected Projects (Examples):

1. Under-Water Signal Processing using Hydro-Phones

2. Design of Digital IIR and FIR Filters

3. Vehicle Identification and Tracking System

4. IRIS Eye Pattern Recognition System

• Lecture Notes:

o Product Life and R&D Cycles, Lecture A1: Design

o Product Life and R&D Cycles, Lecture A2: Design Space

o Product Life and R&D Cycles, Lecture A3: Processes

o Product Life and R&D Cycles, Lecture B1: Process Mgmt and Teams

o Product Life and R&D Cycles, Lecture C1: Product Development

o Engineering Design Presentation Lecture D: UML Diagrams

o Engineering Design Presentation Lecture E: UML Diagrams Cont

o VHDL Concepts Lecture E: Intro to VHDL

• Coding Examples:

1. VHDL Utilities

2. VHDL State Machines

3. Additional Examples VHDL

• Reference Material:

1. Rami Abielmona’s WebSite (with permission)

2. Web Sites + Device Info

3. ELG4911 Web Site (David Chen)

4. ELG4911 Web Site (A Hossain)

5. ELG4911 Web Site (Jilin Zhou)
Contents: CMU Camera, Intro to Advanced Encryption Standard, ECG,
Image Compression