I started this week trying to learn how to set up the network, router and everything needed for the competition from Marcus. He taught me how to restart and edit the proxy, IP address, network connection and problems that I might have when handling the laptop. The laptop is used as Read more…
As I am collecting the statistic of how the TCP receiver buffer size affects the speed of downloading, I found that the time it takes to download the firmware topped at around 11.6 seconds with 512byte of receiver buffer size, which is in fact very slow, further increase of receiver Read more…
The previous week was the first week of my new experience as an intern in AESTE. I believe that internships provide an amazing opportunity for learning and getting real-world experience, especially when you are motivated to learn and excel at what you do. In my first week, I had the Read more…
The week was spent trying to finish up the implementation of the caching mechanism. Overall, I had no major issues regarding the implementation, but there was one thing that caught me unexpectedly. Whenever there are any modifications to the cache, such as adding new entries or expiration of entries, a Read more…
In this week blog, I will talk about all the major problems I had encountered and also the new things that I have learnt through solving those problems. Dr Shawn was not around for the past week and he assigned me a task which was to make sure the Competition Read more…
Time flies and it has been a week already working at Aeste Works. In this blog, I would mainly talk about the tasks given to me, what I have learnt through working on those tasks and also what I have learnt from Dr Shawn. Since this is my first post Read more…
I’m done! I’m finally done with all the screens. I can’t believe I managed to complete my task before my internship ends and can have my Raya holidays with peace. Haha. As I mentioned in my last two previous posts, I’m struggling to get data of the last performance. At Read more…
In this week I was given reading permission to the firmware of the board. Starting to look into the project, I get a better picture of what it is all about. My first task is to get the mechanism of Spartan-6 FPGA programming work. This involves a few steps. First, Read more…
In this week, I was given time to learn Git to prepare myself for the later participation into the grand project without messing it up. In short, Git is a decentralized version control system that conserve different version of our work in series of so called “commit”, a record Read more…
I now have started another crucial component of the project, i.e a caching mechanism. So far I have been able to simulate the mounting remote filesystems using SSHFS, that provides a convenient way to interact with files in your remote storage just like how you would normally interact with files Read more…