ECE 385 Project Ideas
Term projects can be on idea you want to pursue (provided they are approved by the instructor or the TA). The students are encouraged to pick the projects based on their interest. Please keep in mind that it is much better to have a working final project than a challenging project that never completes. Just to get you thinking about projects ideas, here's a partial list of projects.
- Master Mind Game
- Electronic battleship
- Connect Four
- DDR/Beatmania with sound
- A Self-Test design that tests all hardware on the S3 board
- Use of A/D, D/A converters with other external devices (e.g.
speakers, joy-stick, photo sensors)
- Whack-a-mole game
- Picture decode/display (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, or BMP)
- Encryption/Decryption for secure data transmission
- Feistel Cipher encryption
- Snake
- Breakout/Brickbreaker
- Minesweeper
- SLC-3 like microcomputer with floating-point add, multiply, divide
instructions
- Calculator with advanced functions
- Scrolling message banner in on-board LCD
- Blackjack
- Poker
- Phone book (using keyboard and LCD)
Additional notes:
- You can also come up with your own project! (Discuss feasibility with your
TA)
- Use of keyboards, VGA and RAM in any project is strongly
recommended
- New! We now have in stock a few 1.6 Mega pixel
digital camera boards and a few 3.6 inch LCD display boards. Both of these
have connectors that directly connect to your DE2 board with ribbon cables.
Ask a TA for these boards if you plan to use them in your project. The
following two websites give information on our camera and LCD panel. Source for demo designs (in Verilog) are also available there.
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