Projects

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On this page, you'll find a selection of Bhargav's academic projects, both graduate and undergraduate.

At Columbia

Spring, 2008

The Spring of 2008 saw Bhargav spending most of his time in the Embedded Systems Lab, working on two projects that involved the Altera Cyclone II FPGA development board (for Embedded System Design and Distributed Embedded Systems), and tunneling in to the VLSI lab to work on his Topics in VLSI project. Outside the lab, he worked on his fascinating Wireless Networking project. Explore the links below for more information.

• Topics in VLSI circuits

• Embedded System Design

• Wireless Networking

• Distributed Embedded Systems (coming soon)

Fall, 2007

In the Fall of 2007, Bhargav thoroughly enjoyed spending several sleepless weekends over at the VLSI lab, working on designing a 64x64 (4kb) SRAM array for his VLSI project. When he wasn't engrossed in cajoling Cadence to do his bidding, he was working on his Digital Signal Processing project, his Analog Integrated Circuits project, and his Computer Architecture project. Click below for more information on these projects.

• Digital VLSI circuits

• Digital Signal Processing

• Analog Integrated Circuits

Before Columbia

Bhargav received his B.E. (Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Microelectronics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2007.

Here are a select few project reports from Bhargav's undergraduate classes, along with brief descriptions.

• Senior Design Project (PDF) - ESE 440/441 - Senior Design, Fall 2006/Spring2007. This project involved the design and implementation of a microcontroller-based system to interface with a single-photon detector and perform data logging and averaging. It was a high-speed, high-accuracy  design implemented first in a Parallax microcontroller, and then a NetMedia microcontroller (a Rabbit Dynamic-C implementation was attempted, but discarded).

• Xbox Portable (Radon) (PDF) - EST 392 - Engineering Economics, Fall 2006. The first envisioning of an Xbox portable focused on a preliminary economic-feasibility analysis.

• Xbox Portable (Radon) Redux (PDF) - ESE 300 - Technical Writing, Spring 2008. A full-fledged follow-up to the economics report, this version has a lot of technical detail, along with a revised project plan.