RISC V is a completely open ISA that is freely available to academia and industry. A real ISA suitable for direct native hardware implementation, not just simulation or binary translation. The processor designed is a complete reference SoC where various aspects of Rocket - a six stage pipeline will be implemented to exploit the features that this architecture provides. Final testing is completed by running benchmark programs to test the functionality on software.

Goal: Developing a web-based intelligence system that will continually search the internet for sound samples and automatically learn their meanings, associations, and semantics. A 14-day winterschool working on the project titled 'Never Ending Learning of Sound' at NITK Surathkal. Sound waves pervade the universe and as humans only a limited set of waves constitute our hearing capacity. Machines, however don't have this limitation. In the first of its kind attempt, we are in the process of building a machine that captures sound from the chirp of a bird to the supernova of the space, for classification,learning and eventually developing new relations amongst sound waves to hear what was unheard before. This is an ambitious, long-term project that is literally intended to never end. We thank Prof Dr. Bhiksha Raj, Prof Dr. Rita Singh and Pulkit Agrawal for their constant guidance and overwhelming support. Their wisdom, clarity of thought and persistent encouragement motivated us to bring this project to its present state. Working with them has been a great learning experience. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/449978/44-students-prepare-10- projects.html

Goal: Real time position tracking system which is secure where owner is in full control of device with a cell phone. Implementation: Built a system wth 16x2 LCD display, GPS and GSM module. System is able to monitor real time position of the object,keep a record of data and send them when any exception occurs or whenever the owner sends any keyword. Only the owner can control the system and if any keyword is received from any other number, this system is able to inform the owner. Tools/equipment used: Keil uVision, 16x2 LCD display, GSM and GPS modules

Built and assembled the Quadcopter structure: frame, motor, ESCs, MSP430 and battery. Implemented PWM to control the ESCs. Performed extensive testing for calibration of PID coefficients to stabilize flight. IEEE MGA SAC Student Enterprise Award 2013 for the project Quadcopter

Goal: Hardware realization of high radix adaptive CORDIC algorithm for improved throughput in computation of complex arithmetic operations. CORDIC is an iterative algorithm used to compute plethora of elementary trignometric, hyperbolic and other mathematical operation using shift and add architecture. CORDIC at the heart of calculators, signal processing blocks and is implemented as software on general purpose processors. A highly adaptive radix variant of this algorithm, HCORDIC, has been proposed in existing literature. This project had multiple components: 1. Software validation of faster convergence of HCORDIC over CORDIC using MATLAB 2. RTL design of pipelined architecture for HCORDIC on Xilinx FPGA board Virtex 6 Pro. 3. Simulation of RTL design and comparison with existing implementation of CORDIC on hardware. 4. Implementation of above design on Cadence using FreePDK library from NCSU Tools used: 1. Matlab for software validation 2. Xilinx ISE for hardware design 3. Cadence RTL compiler for synthesis of the RTL design

Members:Ankit Shah, Vishnu Vardhan D, Arjun Aravind, Pratik Gujjar, Bejesh A, Pradyumna B SHighlight: Recipient of IEEE MGA SAC Student Enterprise Award 2014. A team venture under the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Consortium, NITK Chapter Goal: Design a low cost competent solution to tackle environmental issues like Global Warming and gauge pollution levels in climate. Implementation Methodology: 1. Sensor modules - 3 gas transducer capable to detect concentration levels of Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Dioxide and Methane. 2. Sensor output [proportional to concentration] converted to voltage. Later conditioned to remove dependency of environment in which modules are placed. . 3. Conditioned voltage fed to MSP430 - gives digital output which is send to XBee which then transfers data to central node.[Raspberry Pi] 4. Raspberry Pi is the gateway to the server where data logged will be stored in server using a WLAN cards/Wi-Fi.In the event of the failure of the sensor node the zonal node will reconfigure the network using simple AT commands as UART data being passed on to the Sensor-Xbee. 4 The communication network will function as a) RF Front End - Star topology between the sensors and the zonal gateway Pi to begin with. The network can always be reconfigured and hence more sensors added to the same Xbee. b) Zonal Node Layer - A Pi, possibly implementing an RTOS, will head the network. The zonal node can reconfigure the network, get logged data and put it on to a server space with access through WLAN/Wi-Fi or Ethernet. c) Server/Agent Layer - Data held in the server space will securely be handed to an authorized user. The sensors “publish” their data to the domain space and a client “subscribes” to it.

Wireless water flow monitoring and actuating solution for wide geographical surveys - A team venture to design a competent solution for assessment of water resources for the Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge - 2013/14

This project was taken up keeping in view that users require external keyboard, monitor to login to the raspberry pi in order to work. With the help of Ethernet cable and virtual network connection I have been able to view the GUI (Graphical User Interface) on my Laptop. This task was accomplished by #rst getting the SSH working and then creating a virtual network. Now with this technique users can use their laptops hardware to code and do much further exciting projects on Raspberry Pi.

This is an attempt made by students of Robotics club in association with CPCRI (Central Plantation Crops Research Institute) to make an autonomous bot which can eliminate risk of a man climbing on coconut tree to pluck coconut and also it will detect the ripe coconut with help of image processing and with sound detection algorithms to judge whether coconut is ripe or not.