Ideas Page
This page is a list of project ideas. Many of these are designed to help future to students learn to use Convey.
Tutorials
Tutorial 2: Memory Controllers
Project description: This tutorial would follow the same structure as tutorial 1. It would have 2 parts: a and b. Part a: start by using the newCnyProject script and end with a personality that writes 8 bytes to memory. Part b: start from the end of part a and end with a personality that reads 8 bytes from memory.
The deliverables would be a tutorial document and 2 examples. The 2 examples would be what the tutorial user should have at the end of part a and b.
Current Developers: none
difficulty: low
Tutorial 3: Summation
Project description: Create a summation personality. cae_vadd does this, but it does vector vector addition as well.
Current Developers: none
difficulty: low
Introduction to floating point
Project description: Make a floating point summation personality.
Current Developers: none
Difficulty: medium
Introduction to parallel algorithms (prefix sums)
Project Description: implement an efficient (O(n/p)) implementation of the prefix sums problem.
Current Developers: none
Difficulty: medium
Feature tutorial
Project Description: Implement an example and tutorial showing one feature. Examples include chipscope, csr, ae-ae ring communication, ect.
Difficulty: low, varies
BLAS Functions
dgemm
Project Description: double precision general matrix matrix multiplication. Create a dgemm implementation with 20 Gflops and 100 Gflops performance for the HC-2 and HC-2ex respectively.
Current Developers: none
difficulty: high
Other
VHDL Personality
Project Description: Create a personality entirely written in VHDL. It seems creating a cae_pers.vhdl file should work.
Current Developers: none
difficulty: low to medium