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Week 0100

The last week wasn’t that productive, although I still learned a lot, mainly theory, about different hashing techniques. Did you know what are “nothing up my sleeve numbers” or Chaitin-Kolmogorov random numbers? Anyway, after looking more closely at the MD5 algorithm and consultation with my boss, we decided in the Read more…

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Week 0011

Miracle! The design we’ve been working on in the previous week works perfectly! Honestly speaking the main merit goes to my colleagues, as their part was more crucial (mine was just a wishbone master sending some 8-bit combinations through switches), but still, I feel relieved. Funny, I’m pretty sure I Read more…

RS 232 rx

This week i finished up writing the code for the receiver uart. My design includes a transmission register, a state register,  a status register and a few counters. This was the first time, I was using a finite state machine in my design.  My design would wait for a start Read more…

My 2nd week at AESTE

They say the first week is always the hardest. At the start of my second week, I was supposed to get the computer to read and write into an SD card by programming the PIC18F8722. After being on the receiving end of the massive scolding last week, I was being Read more…

New Kid on the ‘Blog’

This is going to be my first weekly blog post at Aeste! I just joined this company as intern. As for the first week of my internship, Shawn asked me to study Git and do some C programming tutorials just to make sure that my understanding of the C language Read more…

Our Summer Interns

There were over two hundred applicants for our summer internship places this year. There was a stringent screening process and in the end, we have nine interns for the summer. We have a really good mix of summer interns this year. Our nine interns are working on various aspects of Read more…

Week 5: SPI done!

So it has been 2 weeks since the last time I’ve blogged and a lot have happened since then. Today we just finished the design and testing of the SPI peripheral device. That includes an SPI Master and slave that are wishbone compatible and a dummy master to test those Read more…

SPI Finishing

On my fifth week here, I finished up the SPI that was compatible with the Wishbone bus. I was able to have it working for the four modes of the SCLK. I had to make many changes to the design because I did not have the right idea of the Read more…

First week at AESTE

My first week at AESTE, I was introduced to something that I have never used before which was the new operating system of Ubuntu. Being a complete tyro at it, I was a little puzzled at how this operating system works. I was required to learn about the GIT software Read more…

Shooting Troubles #2

This lab was really annoying in terms of things that didn’t want to work When trying to export hardware for SDK in PlanAhead error shows [Common 17-49] Internal Data Exception: xps application failed SDK requires gmake, we can solve it by simple linking: cd /usr/bin sudo ln -s make gmake Read more…