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Computer Engineering Final Year Topic: Design and Evaluation of FPGA Arithmetic Overflow Detection

This Computer Engineering final year project investigates detecting range errors in a bounded fixed-point arithmetic unit, linking hardware behaviour and software assumptions through an explicitly bounded prototype or simulation.

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Why choose this project topic?

The topic makes detecting range errors in a bounded fixed-point arithmetic unit a testable computer-engineering problem with visible interfaces and failure cases. Measuring overflow detection, numerical error and logic cost helps a student compare design alternatives and explain how resource constraints affect the proposed implementation.

How do the selected hardware or embedded-software choices affect overflow detection, numerical error and logic cost when detecting range errors in a bounded fixed-point arithmetic unit?

Choose an available development board or simulator, agree the supported interface and workload, and narrow detecting range errors in a bounded fixed-point arithmetic unit with your supervisor.

Proposed project objectives

  1. 01Specify the interfaces, operating assumptions and expected behaviour for detecting range errors in a bounded fixed-point arithmetic unit.
  2. 02Implement selected operations, generate boundary operands and compare saturation and wraparound policies with an exact numerical reference.
  3. 03Measure overflow detection, numerical error and logic cost and document failures, resource limits and reproducibility.

A suggested research approach

Implement selected operations, generate boundary operands and compare saturation and wraparound policies with an exact numerical reference. Keep all tests on owned, simulated or approved low-voltage equipment. Record hardware and tool versions, compare output with an independent reference, and evaluate overflow detection, numerical error and logic cost using normal, boundary and interrupted-operation cases.

What you will need

  • HDL simulator
  • Exact arithmetic reference
  • Boundary-value test generator

Keep your project scope clear

The unit supports a restricted format and cannot establish correctness of a complete numerical application. Project writing does not supply working firmware or manufactured hardware.

Computer Engineering project chapter outline

Use this outline as a starting point. You can edit the chapter titles to match your department’s format during setup.

  1. Chapter 1Introduction
  2. Chapter 2Literature Review
  3. Chapter 3System Analysis and Design
  4. Chapter 4System Implementation and Testing
  5. Chapter 5Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations

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