This week I gained a deeper and clearer understanding about some terminologies and the flow within a compiler that I have posted last week. Frontend Basically it uses a parser to produce the syntax tree abstraction of a given source file. It will translate source codes into intermediate representation (IR) like Read more…
This week, I had really a hard time with RISC-V Angel. It started with finding the bootloader code from the RISC-V Proxy Kernel, as the bootloader is the primary program/codes that needs to be load up before the main program actually runs. I searched all over the proxy kernel code and Read more…
My task of this week is the configuration of FPGA. I had to configure the Spartan 6 XC6SLX9 FPGA in the slave serial mode, by using the USART port in the PIC18F97J60. This is something really new to me and web references are scare. Therefore, the only way is to Read more…
In contiki os, there are a lot of functions predefined in the core file. During programming in contiki os, programmers require to follow the contiki programming style to create their own code. These functions are PROCESS_BEGIN(), PROCESS_END(), PROCESS_YIELD() and so on. All of the functions have its own uses but some of it only Read more…
The stream of code bugs and necessary modifications continued running this week as well. I had to do some code modification, complete some features and solve some bugs here and there. This really took longer than I thought it would! Hopefully it will finish soon. Customizable BRAM size. I had Read more…
We are still working on fixing the code bugs, improving the application usability, and optimizing the code. There are a lot of small changes and enhancement that I’ve been working on, here, however I will detail the most important ones, that someone might actually find useful. So, let’s jump right Read more…
This week I have tested all the plugin callbacks available in GCC The plugins list are defined by plugin.def in GCC. The plugin is initiated by plugin_init function, then the plugin is called through register_callback function. For each plugin, a register_callback is required, then the plugin function will be called and Read more…
This week I continue on the working of SPI. The main problem is the writing through the page border of EEPROM. To write across the page, it is required to resend the write command and assigned new address. Firstly, I wrote a code that will keep refresh the address inside Read more…
This week I am working on dummy contiki OS to be compile using RISC V compiler. During compilation, there are a lot errors prone. Most of the errors happened during typo occur in the code, such as #if but without #endif, without semicolon in the ending code and so on. Besides that, Read more…
Bugs, bugs, and more bugs! I think that summarizes the past week! We haven’t introduced much features to the project, but rather we spent the week improving the code, and solving the problems that arise. I basically worked on creating the components for the schematic editor, moving the schematic files Read more…