Conclusion¶

The main purpose of the project was to develop a conformance tester for the EPC-GEN2 protocol TAGs. Doing so required thorough understanding of most of the EPC-GEN2 UHF RFID protocol throughout each member of the group; development of complex VHDL components that operated through state machines; development of a NIOS II soft processor in C programming language that included all of the protocol’s mandatory commands, as well as other customizations for testing purposes; as well as building the Avalon Interface that intermediates the processor and IP core communication.

The group as a whole had to do an extensive research on all these topics to learn how to implement the code, as well as understand the protocol to have a clear image of what the conformance tester should be evaluating in a TAG.

The team¶

This page is to give a brief description of the team responsible for the development of this project.

Alexandre Almeida Edington¶

GitHub profile: https://github.com/Alexandreae

Bio: Computer engineering student in the 9^th period, passionate about front-end development and user experience. Mainly responsible for this project’s GitHub-pages and Doxygen documentation.

Bruno Signorelli Domingues¶

GitHub profile: https://github.com/BrunoSDomingues

Bio: Computer engineering student in the 8^th semester, interested in backend and data science. Listens to music and games in the spare time. Mainly responsible for the hardware implementation of the project in the DE-10 Standard Board.

Lucas Leal Vale¶

GitHub profile: https://github.com/lucaslealvale

Bio: Computer engineering student in the 8^th period, Hardware enthusiast and passionate to it, interested in backend development. Mainly responsible for the Nios soft processor and software implementations of this project.

Rafael dos Santos¶

GitHub profile: https://github.com/4rfel

Bio: Computer engineering student in the 8^th period, interested in game development and hardware advances. Mainly responsible for the VHDL development in this project.