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Han-Way Huang; Nannan He

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0040 Experience of Teaching Embedded System Design using FPGAs Department of Electrical, Computer Engineering and Technology Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN 56001 Han-Way Huang, han-way.huang@mnsu.edu Nannan He, nannan.he@mnsu.eduAbstractAn embedded system is a product using one or more computers as its controller. Traditionally,the controller of an embedded system is an off-the-shelf microcontroller from microcontrollervendors. However, an off-the-shelf microcontroller may not provide the required peripheralfunctions or cannot achieve the desired

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Steven Buchhop; Tate Carlson; Evan Edwards; Prakash Ranganathan; Reza Fazel-Rezai

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0014 Household Energy Aware Real-Time System (HEARTS): A Capstone Project Design Steven Buchhop, Tate Carlson, Evan Edwards, Prakash Ranganathan, and Reza Fazel-Rezai University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202 prakash.ranganathan@engr.und.eduAbstract— This paper discusses a design framework and student experiences of a capstone project carried by students at theDepartment of Electrical Engineering, University of North Dakota (UND). The goal of this capstone project was to provide a“Smart Home” that

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Jon J. Smith; Sima Noghanian

signals. Capon, like Delay-and-Sum,depends on array geometry, as well as Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). The Capon method is alsoknown as the Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR). It, however, has the majordrawback of significant signal cancellation due to coherence of multiple signals present at thesensors. The other technique aside from beamforming is subspace-based methods. One of themost popular of these methods is MUSIC. MUSIC has greater resolution than Capon and has theability to find multiple signals present without cancellation2-7.Problem StatementToday, with so much advancement in computer technology resulting in much faster dataprocessing, engineers more often perform primarily simulation work before any actual “pen andpaper

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Nischal Adhikari; Sima Noghanian

of Advanced Engineering Applications, vol.1, no. 6, pp. 21-30, 2012. 5. W. F. Dudziak, "Three-dimensional ray trace computer program for electromagnetic wave propagation studies,” Defense documentatioin documentation center for scientific and technical information, DTIC, AD 404907, 1961. 6. S. Sefi, Ray tracing tools for high frequency electromagnetics simulations, Licentiate Thesis, Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden , Stockholm, Sweden, May 2003

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Scott G. Gabert; Jeff C. Kaiser; Derek J. Snyder; Prakash Ranganathan; Reza Fazel-Rezai

in a real world application, where the switching would need to be completedover several miles or more. From the testing that was complete, the switching could only be completedover the range of approximately 100 feet. The Xbee pro that was used has a range of 300’ indoors, sowe believe that the limiting factor for the range is the Xstick. This particular component had nodatasheet, as the device is relatively new, so therefore the advertised range cannot be determined. For the software portion, initially the team wanted to be certain that this brand new technology ofXstick would work with the recommended software X-CTU and successfully switch the desiredMOSFETs in the circuit. One issue with the software was that the ability to perform