Design of a Bluetooth interface for a low cost embedded system

This is the homepage for my honours project for 2004. The aim of the project was to design an interface for a Bluetooth wireless link between a PC and a handheld embedded device. The link can then be used to upload new applications, games or data to the handheld device. The project is part of the bachelor of digital systems honours degree and this website has been developed for the subject cse417 communications and research skills.

Below is the abstract for the project:
 

The increased availability of off-the-shelf wireless communications circuitry has allowed larger numbers of hand-held computers to communicate with each other. This project extends this idea by investigating wireless communications for Nintendo Gameboy Advance. The goal of the project is to design a Bluetooth wireless interface to a hand-held embedded device. The Gameboy Advance is a low-cost, high performance commodity device with a sophisticated colour GUI. The wireless interface uses programmable logic devices to initiate and control the Bluetooth technology. Bluetooth provides very low power, short range RF communications, directed at ad-hoc personal area networks of less than 10 meters. A comprehensive design spec was achieved and is presented in this thesis, which incorporates the Gameboy Advance and a Bluetooth communication device to upload new applications for execution. The thesis outlines both the difficulties in designing such an interface and the functionalities of the proposed design.