EENG 460a / CPSC 436 / ENAS 960 Homework #1, due Sept 21, 2004

• Select a technology area, commercial product, or a major  research project that is relevant to this course, and create a web page with discussion that surveys/summarizes and critiques the selected technology, product, or project.
• In addition, provide WWW links and paper references to important sources of information. Use Web (e.g. Google) and the library search engines as your primary source.
• Since I want every student to pick a distinct topic, please get your choice approved by me via email. I’d approve topics in the first come first served order.
• List of topics for this semester:

            - Biomedical sensors ( heart monitors, pulse oximeters etc) (Jim Logan)
            - Inertial Sensors and Dead Reckoning (Stephen Tully)
            - IEEE 802.15.4 Products and technologies: What are the main applications? What companies are out there? What are the protocol stack plans? What kind of radio technologies are available today?
            - IEEE 1451 standard for smart distributed sensors. What sensors are out there? What is the purpose of the standard? How to apply it? What are the design lessons out of that?
            - Energy harvesting technologies  (Reino)
            - Battery technologies: different types of batteries, their technologies, prices, capacities and the promise they hold for embedded systems  (Michael Barry)
            - Design tools for embedded systems: code authoring and generation tools, software synthesis etc (e.g Matlab DSP kit, OCAPI etc) (Paa Kwesi)
            - Chemical sensor technologies and their applications (Anjan)
            - Imaging for sensor networks: Low power, low form factor cameras (e.g cell phone cameras, CMU Cam, low resolution cameras etc) (Nathan Francis)
            - Languages for embedded systems 
            - Real-time embedded operating systems (John Corwin)
            - State of the art GPS technologies (low power GPS receivers, differential GPS, indoor GPS, GPS in mobile handsets) (Willy Wong)
            - Time services in IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 1451 (Andrew Barton-Sweeny)

Submission Instructions

You can submit your homework by emailing me a zip file containing your files or a URL where your files are posted.
The subject line of your email should read "EENG 460 Homework # 1"

The html files will be posted after the deadline so that the class members can browse through the results.