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WARP Workshop at Rice University

March 22-23, 2007

Thank you for your interest in the WARP Workshops at Rice University. This page will provide you with information about the location of the workshop, maps to the campus, lodging information and workshop content.

Workshop Description

The Rice University WARP Workshop introduces attendees to the Rice WARP development platform, including the hardware and software tools used to develop and implement designs in WARP. Attendees will learn the complete WARP design flow, from specification of initial design parameters through implementation of designs on WARP hardware.

Workshop Materials

Course Outline

DAY 1 - 9am-5pm

  • Overview : WARP Hardware and Design Environment

Attendees will learn about the hardware-level capabilities of WARP and the system-level design flow. A brief presentation will be followed by a lab exercise where attendees will use the design tools to implement a simple hardware co-processor on the FPGA.

  • Implementation of Physical Layer Protocols

Classical physical layer algorithms such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) will be presented in the context of physical layer design for WARP. Following the presentation, attendees will use the design tools learned in the previous exercise to generate base-band waveforms on the FPGA and upconvert them to RF using the WARP radio boards.

DAY 2 - 9am-5pm

  • Implementation of Network Protocols

Networking protocols will be discussed in the context of design realization and at-scale experimentation on WARP. Specifically, the medium access control (MAC) layer will be the focus. Using WARP's medium access framework, attendees will implement a simplified ALOHA protocol and demonstrate its capabilities with real-world traffic from a PC.

Helpful Material: Medium Access Overview and knowledge of C programming.

Attendees will utilize MATLAB, Simulink, and Xilinx Platform Studio throughout this two-day workshop. Familiarity with Xilinx development tools, specifically Xilinx Platform Studio, is helpful but not required. Familiarity with MATLAB is required. Development stations, including all required computer hardware and software, will be provided.

Additional tutorials and references can be found at:

http://www.xilinx.com/univ, See Teaching Materials; requires free registration http://cmclab.rice.edu/workshops/ http://cmclab.rice.edu/433/slides/

Workshop Location

The workshops will be held in the Rice University DSP Laboratory. The DSP Lab is located in the Abercrombie Building, Room A123. Airports

There are two major airports in the greater Houston area, George Bush International (airport code IAH) and William P. Hobby Airport (airport code HOU). IAH is approximately 25.1 miles north of campus, and HOU is approximately 11.6 miles south of campus.

Hotel Information

We recommend that you make reservations at one of the following three hotels. Each hotel is close to Rice and offers and offers special roomrates for those visiting Rice.

Hilton Medical Center 6633 Travis Street Houston,TX 77030 (713) 313-4000

Houston Marriott Medical Center 6580 Fannin Street Houston, TX 77030 (713) 796-0080

Holiday Inn Houston Astrodome at Reliant Park 8111 Kirby Dr Houston, TX 77054 (713) 790-1900

Campus Maps & Parking Info

If you will be coming to campus on your own by car, maps to and of the Rice campus and parking information can be found on the main Rice web site.

The closest visitor parking to Abercrombie is the Founder's Court Lot, which is accessed via entrance #1 or entrance #2 off of Main Street

Visitors will need a credit card to access the parking lots, but parking vouchers will be provided to participants on each day of the workshop.

Abercrombie is also close to Houston's new light rail system. The most convenient stop is the Hermann Park/Rice U station.

Contact & Other Information

For questions related to the information given here, please contact Rice's Center for Multimedia Communication:

Betrose Sparks, CMC Administrator bsparks@…, 713-348-6232

For questions the day of the workshop, you may reach Jacob Rhodes at 713-348-2213.

Rice University's Duncan Hall, home of the Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics and Computational & Applied Mathematics departments.