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The MegaWatch Wireless <strong>Plat<strong>for</strong>m</strong>Master's Thesis - Emanuel Corthay1 Introduction7.1 Radio Protocol <strong>for</strong> the RF Circuit 387.1.1 Layer 1 – The Physical Layer ; Digital Modulation 397.1.2 Layer 2 – The Data Link Layer 417.1.3 Layer 3 – The Network Layer; Ad Hoc AODV 467.2 WiFi card : Wireless LAN 802.11b 467.3 Radio Circuit 3-wire Control Interface 467.4 Microcontroller Communication : I 2 C Interface 477.5 Conclusion 478 THE SOFTWARE 488.1 FPGA Radio Transceiver Core 488.1.1 Registers 498.1.2 Avalon Bus Controller 498.1.3 MAC Controller 508.1.4 Transmit Encoder 548.1.5 Receive Decoder 558.1.6 Transmitter <strong>and</strong> Receiver FIFO 568.1.7 Status Register 568.1.8 Control Register 578.1.9 CRC Generator <strong>and</strong> Decoder 588.1.10 R<strong>and</strong>om Number Generator 588.2 3-wire Control Core 588.3 Other Cores 608.4 Application S<strong>of</strong>tware 618.5 Microcontroller S<strong>of</strong>tware 618.6 Conclusion 619 THE MEGAWATCH PLATFORM FABRICATION 649.1 <strong>Design</strong> Phases 649.2 MegaWatch Extension Boards 659.3 Main Processor Board 679.4 Power Supply Board 689.5 Conclusion 6810 OPERATING SYSTEM 7011 AROUND THE PROJECT 7211.1 Project management 7211.2 Documents 7211.2.1 The MegaWatch Web Site 7211.2.2 Announcements 7211.3 Future <strong>of</strong> the Project 7211.3.1 Improvements 7211.3.2 Semester <strong>and</strong> Master projects 7312 CONCLUSION 7813 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 794 / 81

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