Possible Student-Projects

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some could be used for bachelor or master thesis, other only qualify for HiWi-Jobs

• IO Sampling
  • High-Speed, high temporal resolution (>= 1 MHz, <= 100 ns)
  • FPGA or MCU as Interface in front of SBC
  • optional: bidirectional, also actuating
• Network Topology of Testbed
  • find and characterize interesting topologies (multi-hop, ring, mesh, ...)
  • layout-optimization to include topos as subnets (while keeping node-count small)
  • bootstrapping - how to start (with smaller number of nodes)
  • optional: different PHY (protocol or target dependent)
  • link-measurements or channel characterization could be a baseline for research
• Target-Design (more practical work)
  • motivation: one free port on shepherd
  • what system to choose, featureset
  • survey: what is popular, missing or coming, i.e. https://www.iot-lab.info/
  • lora, wifi, 15.4, uwb,
  • design, validation
• optional sync via DCF77
  • https://blog.blinkenlight.net/experiments/dcf77/local-clock/
  • phase-detection
  • what min error would be possible
  • interesting for far away nodes (uwb) -> distant subnets
• shepherd-cape redesign - howto - feasibility-study
  • characterize constraints
  • survey of SBC with included featureset
• concept for measuring / recording energy environments
  • statistically valid data
  • how to scale (50 .. 80 .. 100 nodes)
• (web-) dataviewer for recorded traces
• new programmer design (OpenOCD + virtual debug probe, mixed with a new controller like RP2040), more details in programmer - implementation in userspace #23
• evaluate current target (or new revision)
  • design software to automatically test core-functions (GPIO, FRAM), generic approach preferred
  • design software to delete retained data. is a simple full-erase enough to clear FRAM and low-level configs?