Rahul Tiwari

The purpose of this project to use Synopsys Power Compiler to estimate the power consumption of a design and further use logic-level to reduce the power consumption of the design.

Phase 1: Power Estimation by RT-level and Gate-level switching activities.
Phase 2: Logic-level Power Optimization

The project involves implementing a design automation algorithm for placement and routing in C++

The purpose of this project is to use Synopsys Design Compiler, DFT (design for testability) Compiler and BSD (boundary scan design) Compiler to synthesize a GCD machine which is able to compute the greatest common divisor of two numbers.

The aim of this project is to obtain a minimal cutset cost after performing a balanced bi-partition of a given netlist using Simulated Annealing Algorithm. The optimized algorithm will be tested on a multitude of benchmark from a few hundred nodes and edges to thousands of nodes with millions of edges.

The iLock is an intelligent security system that be built on Altera DE 2 development board that employs the Altera Cyclone II FPGA. iLock employs the VGA and PS/2 module on the board to communicate with the VGA monitor and keyboard for display and input functions.

The traffic signal controller at the junction of UC Main Street and Martin Luther King Drive was modeled completely including the pedestrian crossing feature as well as the short term left signal light on MLK. The programming was done in Verilog and was implemented on the Altera DE2 board.

A mini project that checked the terminals of a unknown transistor and indicated which one of them is the base, emitter and collector (or source, gate and drain).

It is a Mini Programmable Router 40 pin IC designed under the guidance of Dr. Ranga R. Vemuri. uBER consists of 16 input and output lines each that can route any of the 16 input pins to any of the 16 output pins as per the configuration data loaded in it. uBER uses a full custom layout designed by us and fabricated by MOSIS with 0.3 um feature size and a die size of 2mm x 2mm.

Designed and developed a robust home/office automation system with data logging capabilities under the guidance of Dr. KTV Reddy. The wireless communication protocol utilized in this project was IEEE 802.15.4 better known as ZigBee since it offers low power consumption and a wide coverage area. The whole automation and data logging system was split in two operational units where the remote unit was connected to sensors and appliances or machines and the main unit was connected to a computer… Show more

Designed and developed a robust home/office automation system with data logging capabilities under the guidance of Dr. KTV Reddy. The wireless communication protocol utilized in this project was IEEE 802.15.4 better known as ZigBee since it offers low power consumption and a wide coverage area. The whole automation and data logging system was split in two operational units where the remote unit was connected to sensors and appliances or machines and the main unit was connected to a computer that received data through ZigBee and saved it in a computer as well as transmit control signals to the remote unit for appliance/machine control. Show less

Leading the team towards the completion of project.
Finalizing the system architecture and co-designing the circuit.
Programming and prototyping the actual design.