Ideas by Mr. Ashish

Getting Started with OpenSPARC

Step 1:

Read Mr. Ashish's Blog on OpenSPARC Internals ...http://fpga.ashishbanerjee.com/opensparc This should give you an overview of OpenSPARC design.

Step 2:

Synthesize an OpenSPARC core into an FPGA.

The steps are detailed in OpenSPARC Internals book, Chapter 6.

See the OpenSPARC T1 FPGA Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCX03bU8TSM

Project Ideas

Short Term Projects (BTech Level):

• Extract NIU (Network Interface Unit) and synthesize it on a FPGA
• Extract the Cryptographic Accelerator and synthesize it on a FPGA
• Create a DDR3 interface for OpenSPARC (Presently supports DDR2).
• Identify a Java server side application and tune it to make it run faster on CMT (Chip Multi-Threading) Architecture. See my paper here:
• Compare Power7 Architecture with OpenSPARC T1 Architecture.
• Optimize a MegaCell for FPGA (6-LUT , 4-LUT and 3-LUT architectures).

Long Term Projects (MTech/PhD Level):

http://fpga.ashishbanerjee.com/ideaz