June 2008 Monthly Highlights
- Nokia-MIT meeting at Oulu
- Steering group meeting at Oulu:
- participants: Juha Heikkila, Tommi Makelainen, Markku Vaara,Anssi Marttila, Jamey Hicks, John Ankcorn, Elliott Fleming, Nirav Dave
- Gopal presented Turbo decoder results and achievements
- Nirav presented HW/SW driver generation
- SG discussion about what has been achieved so far and how to proceed
- overall we got positive feedback from SG.
- Juha suggested that Tommi and Anssi go through code-walkthrough session and have another meeting in Aug
- Turbo decoder code cleanup
- Bluespec code Jam. Cleaned-up code and uploaded some projects in opencores.
- Tommi and Anssi participated in code walkthrough. We went through various parts of turbo decoder in detail
- Jae gave ISCA practice talk
- Ramki is writing 802.11a MAC in bluespec and tyring to integrate it with OFDM models. The MAC will use certain confidence information from PHY to make decision on partial retransmission
- Gopal is analyzing HSTDEC SW Driver. This will be one of the components that Myron and Nirav will use to generate SW from Bluespec.
- Nirav and Myron are implementing the compiler. Several scheduling improvements were done. They have implemented several primitives and can now sanely handle state FSM
- Daniel is studying the power consumption for various video frame resolutions
Gopal organized a workshop at Nokia Fellow summit, http://swiki.nokia.com/Fellows/Group1FuturePhoneArchitecture