GLE-MiPS - reaching beta!

hi all!
I'm pleased to announce that the project has reached the BETA status!
It should work as the blueprints says, but i need to thoroghly test it!

if you want to check it out it's here.

the good news now is that there are many fellow students who like this project and are quite willing to help!
Moreover we're forming a group for building a compiler of an Assembly-like language for this processor! So it appears that the project might be something successful in the end...

let's hope so
Vittorio

Second Project: GLE-MiPS

Well, it's time to start another project, this time a little more serious!

we have to design a fully working MIPS-like processor!
After weeks of hard work finally we arrive to a very alpha stage... that means one thing: publishing!!! it's OpenSource obviously!

so i set up a google code account and stasted svnning! if you litterally check out, do

svn checkout http://gle-mips.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ gle-mips

if you want to browse the source (and help me find bugs btw :D) you can have a look here!

http://gle-mips.googlecode.com

be careful that this is still very alpha, and not ready for submission anywhere; the single modules work, but the whole processor needs to be tested (heavily tested i might say)

that's all for now!
Vittorio

OpenSSL is hot!

Wow! it appears that my document of some time ago
OpenSSL - User Manual and Data Format
has made it to the hot list of Scribd!
http://www.scribd.com/browse

well i'm excited, it's the first time something like that happens!!!
I might consider reworking on it (as soon as i complete this semester projects)

thanks a lot to whoever viewed and liked this document!
Vittorio

The three betas of my life

ok today i litterally had a cut to some of my lifestyles (namely my hair)
so i took the occasion to go somewhat extreme with the current sowftware i had installed!

by a strange stroke of luck 3 new betas of popular software was released out today

• Open Office 3 - native support for Intel Aqua Macs
• VMWare Fusion 2 - Unity support for Linux guests (partial)
• Firefox 3 - native support for Aqua Macs (and a lot of other stuff)

ok the last was hasn't really come out today but as i said i wanted to go a little extreme with new stuff and firefox2 was giving me some headache (dunno why)

the use of the Aqua interface for ooo3 and ff3 is really one big hit and you can actually feel the increased perfomance boost! Unitiy in VMware is still a little buggy but it can work fine and gives hope that linux support will be carried on by the vmware team!

with all these betas installed i feel like living some months forwards :D

Some software engineering

Here is the set of slides i had to write for the software engineering course.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2701182/slides-Misra-C-Software-Development-Standard
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2701328/slides-Software-Requirements-for-SafetyRelated-Systems

perfomed in latex beamer
hope you like it :)

JPEG 2000 vs H.264 -- FIGHT!

here is the Video Communication project from our dear Vittorio Picco and fresh Giacomo Campieri from the telecomunication team!

They thoroughly analized two very popular compression format, jpeg2000 and h264, providing several images as example.

check it out!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2581731/H264AVC-intra-coding-and-JPEG-2000-comparison?ga_uploads=1

Presenting some slides

Right in the middle of our exams, here we provide you the mithical slides we used for presenting our works from previous times!

About Computer Systems Security
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2563498/slides-OpenSSL-User-Manual-and-Data-Format
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2563466/slides-Block-Cipher-Modes-of-Operation-and-CMAC-for-Authentication
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2563436/slides-Authenticated-Encryption-GCM-CCM

and one we forgot to upload about the famous division algorithm
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2563434/slides-MicroprocessorBased-Systems-4832bit-division-algorithm-

all in pdf so you can read them anywhere without problems ;)
more to come in the following weeks
bye for now!