• System-on-Chip Research Projects

The System Chip Design Laboratory invites undergraduate, graduate and professional education students to consider doing focused research on the system-on-chip (SOC) design paradigm.  Current undergraduate and graduate SOC research projects include:

• Thermal management in high speed CMOS circuitry

• Microelectronic design of high speed on-chip bus architectures

• Linux real-time multiprocessor operating systems for the WDC 65C816

• Digital signal processing (DSP) core for the WDC 65C816 and general purpose microprocessors

• Design and verification of microprocessor-programmable gate array devices

• Embedded SOC architectures for intelligent instrumentation 

• SOC bus arbitration architecture for multiple microprocessors and programmable gate arrays

Master Thesis Research has included:

• Design and Implementation of a DSP Core on the WDC W65C816 Microprocessor.  Ajay Kumar Yadav.  Abstract (DSPcore65C816.pdf)

• On-Chip System Bus Architectural Design.  Hongxia Wang.  Abstract (OCSB.pdf)
  
  

• 6502 Microprocessor

The original 6502 8-bit microprocessor was developed by MOS Technology in nearby Norristown, PA in 1975.  The innovations of this microprocessor architecture included advanced addressing modes.  The Department of Electrical Engineering at Temple University, as is was known then, was the first undergraduate program in the Delaware Valley to feature microprocessor education and utilized the 6502 beginning in 1977.  The 6502 was used as the processor in the Apple II® and Commodore® personal computer systems.  Commodore Computer was located in nearby West Chester, PA.   Click on the image for a view of the original 6502 microprocessor rendered in a 1.5 micron fabrication process.