Final Project Archive

Projects of Yesteryear

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Fall 2023

  • Walkie Talkie FPGA

  • Glow Trails on FPGA

  • 13.56 MHz RFID Emulator

  • DigiSketch

    • Lydia Patterson, Edwin O. Ouko, Fahnmusa J. Edwards
    • video report
  • FPGA Minigolf

    • Sebastien Lohier, Abhinav Goel, Lawrence Shi
    • video report
  • FPGA-based Accelerator for Vector Search

  • Riscalar

  • RISCY ML

  • RSA FPGA Implementation

  • FencePGA

  • Poor Man’s VR: Raymarching with Stereoscopic Offset and Gyroscopic Control

    • Marco Andrade, Aidan Zev Blum Levine, Aidan Zev Blum Levine
    • video report
  • SIFTPGA

  • FPGA-Based Real-Time ADS-B Scanner

    • Youran Gao, Hasan Zeki Yıldız, Yichen Gao
    • video report
  • Minimalist GPU on an FPGA

  • RFID Duplicator

    • Kyle Heinz, Walter Truitt, Christina Crow
    • video report
  • Photomosaica

    • Andrew Weinfeld, Marilyn Meyers, Isaac (Zack) Duitz
    • video report
  • Flat Earth Project

    • Nathan Jones, Samuel Calvert, Sawyer Sands
    • video report
  • Orca: Optimized RISC-V Cryptographic Accelerator

  • Frito: an FPGA Chip-8 Multiplexing Emulator

  • FPGA Royale Final Report

  • Digital Sundial Final Project Report

    • Moaaz Fayumy, Asaad Mohammedsaleh, Hamza Raniwala
    • video report
  • PictoChatGPA – Real-Time Draw Sharing On Low-Level Hardware

  • FPGA Autonomus Vehicle

    • Juan Antonio Luera, Juan Angel Luera, Manuel Valencia
    • video report
  • Finding, Parsing, and Generating Audio Transcriptions

  • FPGA Video Dithering

  • Feline Programmable Gate Array

  • Fitness Program of Guided Activities

  • Aurras: Active Environmental Noise Cancellation Using an FPGA

    • Matthew Caren, Bryan Jangeesingh, Jonas Rajagopal
    • video report
  • Crappy Car Simulator

    • Teonezcayotl GutieRuiz, Jose H. Cerritos Arevalo
    • video report
  • Bespoke: an ONNX to FPGA compiler for Rapid Development of ML Stream Processors

  • VOXOS: Vocoder on FPGA

  • FPGesture–Controlled Video Enhancement

  • MOS6502 Final Report

  • Anglerfish: A Novel Pacing System for Swimmers with Stereo Camera Tracking

  • Nintendo Etherstream

    • Vassilios Kaxiras, Christine Imogu, Karen Liberman
    • video report
  • 3D PONG!

  • Real-Time Interactive Block World

  • 3D Model Interfacing Final Report

  • FPGA QR Code Scanner Final Report

  • NeuroVision: A Neuromorphic Computing Accelerator for Image Processing

Fall 2022

  • FPGA Digital Audio Workstation

  • Audio Transmission via S/PDIF over TOSLINK

    • Eric Bui, Alyssa Keirn, and Luis Martinez
    • video report
  • Beat Saber

    • Shreya Karpoor, Darren Lim, and Monica Liu
    • video report
  • Radio Society Defense Network

  • Stealthoscope

    • Sophie Guo, Kevin Qian, and Maggie Zhang
    • video report
  • TOT (Terminal-on-TOT)

  • FPGA Virtual Lightboard

  • Waveshine

  • FPGA Fractal Ray Marcher

  • A Really Long Extension Cord: Final Report

  • FPGA Accelerated Tactile Sensing Textiles

  • H.264 Video Compression and Transmission

  • F.A.V.S. - FPGA Audio Visual Synthesizer

  • Nonogram Solver

    • Nina Gerszberg, Veronica Grant, and Dana Rubin
    • video report
  • FPGA 360

  • Medium Distance Livestream with Shape Detection

  • SpeedyAR

    • Max Katz-Chrsity and Miles Kaming-Thanassi
    • video report
  • Bit by Bit: An FPGA-assisted Bitcoin Miner

  • FPGArio Kart Preliminary Report

  • FPGA-Based “Sounds of Music”

  • Undertale on FPGA

  • The Soul Reader

  • XILINX Shuffle

  • REND3R: Raytracing Engine and Networked Device for 3D Rendering

  • Adversarial Tetris

  • Loading Dock Orchestra

  • FPGA Photobooth

    • Diego Rodriguez, Ellie Rabenold, and Kojo Anane-Fordjour
    • video report
  • Xilinx FPGA Augmented Reality Cards

  • SkyLocator

    • Masarah Ahmadhussein, Vanessa Gonzalez, and Lejla Skelic
    • video report
  • FPGA Omnichord

  • FPGAbility: Spatially-Aware Writing

  • High Frequency Trading on FPGA

  • On-Chip Neural Chess Analyzer (ONe-ChAn)

  • Mirror Me

Fall 2021

  • SLIME: Single Lonely Instrumentalist Music Enhancer

  • Infinite Run

  • Battleship

  • day-of-Flight Planning Guidance Simulator (FPGA)

  • Gesture Controlled Music Player

  • Acoustic Levitator

  • Sound Localization

  • Digital Storage Oscilloscope

  • Nonogrammer: A Nonogram Platform for FPGA

  • ENIGMA on an FPGA

  • Dig Dug

  • FPGA Light Zapper

  • FPGA-Time

Fall 2020

  • Overcooked: Food-programmable Gate Array

    • Lacthu Vu, Kye Burchard, and Julia Arnold
    • video report
  • FPGAmp20

  • Grid Shuffle

  • 3D Music Visualizer

  • Sign Language Translator

  • Network Attached Laser Projector

  • FPGA: Fast Paced Gameplay Automator

  • Internet Controlled Robot

  • FPGA-based Artificial Intelligence: A Low-Latency FPGA MNIST Digit Classifier

  • FPGA Digital Audio Workstation

  • SpaceSynth

  • KABOOM

    • Devin Murphy, Emma Griffiths, and Willie Zhu
    • video report
  • Image Feature Detection and Matching

  • Tiny World: A Verilog Life Simulation Game

    • Albert Garcia, Mario Peraza, and Nailah Smith
    • video report
  • FPGAirPods: Implementing Active Noise Cancellation on a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA

    • Ben Kettle, Nicholas Ramirez, and Gokul Kolady
    • video report
  • The Game of Go on Two FPGAs

  • FPGA based GPS Receiver

  • NES Audio Synthesizer

  • Sound Localization

  • Instantaneous Frequency Estimation and Data Conversion for IEPE-compatible Transducers

Fall 2019

  • Mario Bros Classic in Real Life

    • Isabelle Chong, Jose Guajardo, and Nancy Hidalgo
    • video report
  • Stereoscopic Observation System (SOS)

    • Jeana Choi, Ryan Mansilla, and Leilani Trautman
    • video report
  • Gim’s Labyrinth

    • Gian Delfin, Vivian Huang, and Luis Terrones-Verastegui
    • video report
  • Gesture Control Fighting Game

    • Ray Dedhia, Diana Hernandez, and Petra Hernandez
    • report
  • Dance Dance Revolution

    • Andrea Bolivar Matos and Grace Quaratiello
    • report
  • Freeform Production of Gorgeous Audio

  • FPGA Software Define Radio (SDR)

  • Chase-bot

  • FPGA Minesweeper

    • Roderick Bayliss and Brandon John
    • report
  • QAM Receiver for Video Signals from a Quadcopter Camera

    • James Abel and Jacob McGuire
    • report
  • FPGA RFID Utility

  • An Electronic Drum

    • Evan Gabhart, Roberto Gauna, and Benjamin Sheffer
    • report
  • E.D.I.T.H.

    • Olutimilehin Omotunde and Roberto Ramirez
    • video report
  • The DiGuitar

  • FPGA Ray Tracer

  • FPGA Piano-Playing Robot

    • Brendan Ashworth, Max Hardy, and Anthony Nardomarino
    • video report
  • FPGA Light Controller

    • Rhian Chavez and Miles Johnson
    • report
  • FPGA Auto-Tune

    • Kika Arias and Elaine Ng
    • report
  • Nintendo Entertainment System Emulation

    • Israel Bonilla, Sidne Gregory, and Daniel Klahn
    • report
  • An HFT Accelerator

    • Endrias Kahssay, Natnael Kahssay, and Ziheng Wang
    • report
  • FPGuitAr Hero

  • The Beep Boop 9000

    • Matthew Johnston, Tyler Moroso, and Brandon Motes
    • report
  • digitEyes

  • 3D Tetris

    • Charity Midenyo, Jenessa Rodriguez, and Bradley Seymour
    • report
  • Pepper’s Ghost Approximation

    • Jeremy McCulloch, Adam Potter, and Sreya Vangara
    • video report
  • ChessAI - Real Life Chess against AI

    • Grayson King and Bahrudin Trbalic
    • report
  • FPGA Brushless Motor Controller

    • Jackson Gray and Aaron Yeiser
    • report

Fall 2018

  • FPGA Qubit Package

  • Robotic Air Hockey

    • Katherine Camenzind, Alexander Huang, and Xavier Zapien
    • video report
  • Verilog Sudoku Solver

  • Check Yourself

    • Suzanne O'Meara, Elijah Stanger-Jones, and August Trollback
    • video report
  • Encrypted Communications over Ethernet

  • Laser Cyclops

    • Carlos Cuevas and Cody Winkleblack
    • report
  • Hardware Neural Net Entertainment System (HNES)

    • Sebastian Bartlett and Joshua Noel
    • report
  • Digital Supersaw Synthesizer

  • Spherical Persistence of Vision Display

  • FPGA 6-DOF Motion Platform

    • Kaname Favier, Cameron Ordone, and Adam Rodriguez
    • report
  • Interactive Minecraft

  • Bitcoin Script Validation Accelerator

    • Jonathan Buschel and James Lovejoy
    • report
  • AirPong

    • Sabina Chen, Bret Heaslet, and David Mueller
    • report
  • Auditory Localization

  • Audio Laser Light Show

    • Samuel Cherna, Joshua Gruenstein, and Matthew Reeve
    • video report
  • Scream-y Bird

  • FPGA Fruit Ninja

  • Basic Processor

    • Bradley Jomard and Quinn Magendanz
    • report
  • Self Balancing Voice Controlled Robot

    • Dominik Martinez and Alexander Peraire-Bueno
    • report
  • FPGA Camera-Controlled Traffic Lights

    • Jessica Quaye and Premila Rowles
    • report
  • MAMBO - Multiplayer Arrow Matching Ballroom Orchestrator

  • FPGA Tuner

  • Audio Controlled Levitator

  • Gesture Controlled Music Playback System

  • The Music Box

  • FPGA Synthesizer

Fall 2017

Fall 2016

Fall 2015

Fall 2014

Fall 2013

Fall 2012

Fall 2011

Fall 2010

Fall 2009

Fall 2008

Fall 2007

Fall 2006

  • Labyrinth

  • Bacteria "Colonalyzer"

  • Full Motion Dance Machine

  • Digital Player Piano

  • Realtime Light-Saber Generator

  • Laser Shot: Video-based Alternative to Arcade Light Guns

    • Tiffany Chen, Spencer Sugimoto, Paul Yang
    • report
  • Sound Blocks: an interactive environment for

    • Iris Cheung, Dennis Miaw
    • report
  • A Theater Lighting Board

    • Maura Cordial, Irene Zhang
    • report
  • Bass Hero

    • Humberto Evans, Alex Guzman
    • report
  • An Intuitive Video Game System

    • Edward Fagin, Irene Fan
    • report
  • "Squash Yourself"

    • Will Fotsch, Sumit Khatod, Azadeh Moini
    • report
  • SkiFree controlled by user's hand motions

    • Eric Grebing, Erik Stafl
    • report
  • Windows Manager Responsive to User Hand Gestures

  • Virtual Surround Sound from a Dolby Digital Source

  • Writing Recognition

  • Keytar Hero

    • Hubert Hwang, Hui Tang
    • report
  • Virtual Conducting

    • Andy Lin, Brandon Yoshimoto
    • report
  • Pong Pong Revolution

    • Dan Lopuch, Zachary Remscrim
    • report
  • Interactive Adventure Game

    • Greg Luthman, Akash Shah
    • report
  • Hand-Controlled Digital Audio Synthesizer

    • Behram Mistree, Alex Sanchez
    • report
  • Point-to-point Data Link, Collaborative Whiteboard

    • Scott Ostler, Michael Robbins
    • report
  • Donkey Kong

    • Stephen Pueblo, Yi Wang
    • report
  • Serpent

  • Virtual Knockout!

    • Giovanni Reveles, Chuan Zhang
    • report
  • Newtonian N-body Simulator

  • GPS Data Logger and Visualization System

  • Interactive Vertically-Scrolling Shooter

  • A Floating Point Unit for Numerical Calculations

Fall 2005

  • Interactive Video Effects and Games

    • Rebecca Arvanites and Cristina Domnisoru
    • report
  • Duckhunter

    • Taylor Barton, Andrew Lisy
    • report
  • RFID Tag Reader System

    • Katonia Butler, Akua Nti
    • report
  • Music Transcriber

    • Roberto Carli, Alessandro Yamhure
    • report
  • An FPGA Software Radio

  • Real-Time Video Effects Processor

    • Venkat Chandar, Benjamin Gelb
    • report
  • Hand Motion Control of an Audio Player

    • Diana Cheng, Doris Lin
    • report
  • A Photogrammetry System

  • Digital Tuner

    • Roshni Cooper, Linda Fang
    • report
  • The Sound of Music -- Gone Digital!

    • Sarah-Jean Cunningham, Anne Romeo
    • report
  • Pacman

    • Michael D'Ambrosio, Haiyao Huang
    • report
  • Digital Poker

    • Amy Daitch, Elizabeth Murnane
    • report
  • Music Visualization System

    • Bradley Edwards, Aston Motes, Stephen Oney
    • report
  • Automated Dart Board

    • Michael Ehrenberg, Ankush Patel
    • report
  • Tilting Maze Game

    • Matthew Fishburn, Hongyi Hu
    • report
  • System on a Chip

  • Gesture Recognition using Video

  • Object Position and Orientation Tracker

    • Andrew Lee, Tiffany Wang
    • report
  • Digital Percusion and Entertainment System

    • David Levenson, Daniel Malconian
    • report
  • Perfect Pitch Sheet Music Maker

    • Adam McCaughan, John O'Brien
    • report
  • Digital Stereoscope

    • Joshua Jen Monzon, Tony Ng, Hao Zhou
    • report
  • Soil-water Characterization Unit

  • Digital Effects Box for Guitar

    • Matthew Moskwa, Schuyler Senft-Grupp
    • report
  • The Dorm Room Genie

    • David Nedzel, Aaron Stonely
    • report
  • Ogg Vorbis Audio Decoder

    • Matthew Papi, Jonathan Stritar
    • report
  • Programmable Audio Visualizer

    • Dany Qumsiyeh, Michael Spindel
    • report
  • Virtual Juggling

    • David Rush, Christopher Wilkens
    • report
  • Voice over LAN

    • Brian Schmidt, Matthew Welsh
    • report
  • Sentry Surveillance Camera

    • Robert Speaker, Raymond Wu, Bo Zhu
    • report
  • The Wumpus

    • Mark Tobenkin, Damon Vander Lind
    • report
  • A Virtual Pet

  • A Volumetric LED Dot-matrix Display

    • Lawrence Wujanto, David Wyatt
    • report
  • Asteroids

    • James Verrill, Dun Xiao
    • report