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2008

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) School of Engineering

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Ethernet Controller Design For An Embedded System Using Advanced Fpga Technology, Eddie L. Groom Jan 2008

Ethernet Controller Design For An Embedded System Using Advanced Fpga Technology, Eddie L. Groom

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In this work, an embedded Ethernet controller platform was implemented using reconfigurable hardware technology that incorporates system-level components. The specialized hardware and software work flows necessary to implement an embedded system using highly integrated electronics are not commonly addressed in academic environments. The primary objective of this work was to fill this void by describing and demonstrating the hardware/software co-design processes used to implement the project’s embedded Ethernet controller. Ethernet was selected as the project’s design focus to provide an example of the processes used to integrate common system-level components into an embedded system. To analyze the performance of this …


The Use Of Modeling Tools In The Analysis Of Functional Requirements, Gopi Kamadia Jan 2008

The Use Of Modeling Tools In The Analysis Of Functional Requirements, Gopi Kamadia

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The thesis offers an Object-Oriented analysis methodology to investigate the functional requirements of software systems with modeling technologies, such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Systems Modeling Language (SysML). The main focus of the analysis is to discover objects and describe them in the problem domain. The thesis also proposes a validation process for the requirements stage of the development life cycle with an Acclaro Design For Six Sigma (DFSS) approach. A software development experiment is carried out with a case study of a threedimensional graphics game. The game is first implemented without following any sound analysis process and then …