Context switching in FreeRTOS

FreeRTOS capable to run multiple tasks by using tasks switching method. Scheduler is the kernel who doing the task switching operation. The scheduler will changing the task into running state when it is require. But when the yield, block or suspend functions is called, the scheduler will switching other task Read more…

HTTP Server

This week I continue the work on the SSL. After I included all the necessary files, it return errors of ‘TCB_uRam’  cannot fit the section. At first I thought it was running out of RAM space like another case that I experience before. Since the SSL is a very large Read more…

Introduction to Chip Design

I am officially in the midst of my internship now, and decided to try something new to me, which is chip design. I was given the tools of Atyls Spartan 6 FPGA development board for the development of chip design. The Xilinx ISE tool There are many documentations provided by Read more…

CCD Sensors

This week I was given another task about the CCD optical sensors. CCD is called Charge-coupled device where it is capable of transforming light pattern from an image into an electric charge pattern just like an electronic image. It can collect, store and transport electrical charge from one element to another. Each pixels Read more…

HTTP Response and Request

This week I tried to send and receive the http headers fields. For sending the header fields from the server, the task was easier since we just needed to simply send out the suitable. By referring on the microchip demo code, I wrote a code to send the required response Read more…

Another Leaves the Nest

Although this was not my final week (my next week is), yet this is my final blog. As next week we will be working on something different (writing tutorials), I wanted this blog to be my goodbye letter. 29 weeks are over, during which, I learned a lot, I worked Read more…

TCB in FreeRTOS

Last week, I found that the value pxCurrentTCB is different from the instruction address of my task created. After discuss with Dr Shawn, he told me that the value of pxCurrentTCB should be different from the instruction address of task created inside elf file. The pxCurrentTCB is holding the stack address Read more…

A New Chapter

With minimum expectation and completely blind faith I had arrived at AESTE for the beginning of my internship of 12 weeks. Just to give a background, before I proceed with my blog, I am a Bangladeshi student studying Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Malaysia and I have been here for Read more…