WARP Workshop at Rice University - March 29-30, 2010

The tenth WARP workshop will be held at Rice University on March 29-30, 2010.

Overview

The WARP Workshop is designed to introduce researchers to the tools and design flows used to build custom wireless networking designs on WARP. The materials cover the basics of the WARP hardware and introduce the platform's physical and MAC layer design flows. The workshop is composed of both technical presentations, delivered by the Rice students and staff working on WARP, and hands-on lab exercises using the WARP hardware and design flows.

The content and organization will be similar to our previous workshops, the materials for which are available here.

Workshop Materials

Slides

Day 1:

• Introduction​ (37KB PDF)
• WARPLab​ by Melissa Duarte (6.3MB PDF)
• Hardware & XPS​ by Sid Gupta (2.7MB PDF)
• PHY Design​ by Patrick Murphy (2.2MB PDF)

Day 2:
Coming Soon

Labs Exercises

Day 1:

• Lab 1: Introduction to WARPLab​ (0.1MB PDF)
  • WARPLab source files
• Lab 2: Introduction to WARP Hardware & XPS​ (0.5MB PDF)

Instructors

Melissa Duarte, Sid Gupta, Patrick Murphy and Chris Hunter

Other Useful Resources

• WARPLab
• OFDM Reference Design
• FPGA Board Users Guide
• Radio Board Users Guide
• WARP APIs
• Radio Controller
  • Overview
  • Software Source
  • Hardware Source
• WARP OFDM Transceiver
• WARPMAC Source
• MAC Implementations
• ​Xilinx University Program

Registration

Registration closed on March 15. Please watch the ​WARP site for announcements of future workshops.

Logistics

The workshop will be held on the Rice University campus, in Abercrombie Lab room A123. A ​campus map is available (select "Abercrombie Engineering Laboratory"). The nearest parking is in the Founder's Court lots (the yellow areas on the map, labeled "visitor parking").

The workshop sessions will run 9am-5pm on Monday/Tuesday March 29-30, 2010. Continental breakfast will be available outside the lab at 8:45am both days, and lunch will be provided.

There are many hotels near campus; here's ​one list. Many of these hotels will offer a discounted rate if you mention that you're visiting Rice.