By Andrew Love
Project 1:
We wish to find the Mersenne Primes (The form is 2p-1) for p=[5…31] using Vertex 2 FPGAs and determine the performance. In order to determine if something is a Mersenne Prime or not, we plan to use the Lucas-Lehmer Test.
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/arl8c/public/ECE5530/HW1.htm
Project 4:
We wish to use the Lucas-Lehmer Test for to find a Mersenne Prime (The form is 2p-1) for a small p using a Lego Mindstorms Kit.
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/arl8c/public/ECE5530/HW4.htm
Project 9:
We wish to create a modified floating point MAC without using an HDL. We will be using Vertex 2 FPGAs to run the hardware and Forge will run using java files to create the MAC module.
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/arl8c/public/ECE5530/HW9.htm
Project 11:
We wish to do three different modifications to a bitstream using JBits. Part 1 involves inverting the output result, part 2 involves switching wires around, and part 3 involves rerouting wires to a new CLB and then sending this new value into the registers instead of the old value. We will be using Vertex 2 FPGAs to run the hardware and JBits and ADB will be used to do the bitstream conversion through java.