WEEK 4: Spartan 6 FPGA

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…

Running Tasks with Contiki

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…

Code Restructure!

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…