Chronicles from our peeps.
This week Dr Shawn has explained to me the internal registers of UART, SPI and TWI. Basically these modules has two registers: status register and data register. Status register, from its name we know that this register contains information about the state of the device. Data register contains the data Read more
This week I am working with UART (Universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter). UART is a device that used for serial communication over a peripheral device serial port or computer. UART takes bytes of data and transmits the individual bits in a sequential fashion. UART consists of a data bus with several data Read more
This week I try to fix ‘init_b’ low and get the configuration of spartan 6 working. ‘init_b’ turn high Finally manage to read a HIGH output from ‘init_b’ of FPGA. The solution was to have PIC32 enabled ‘pull_up’ on the input pin and some additional pic32 initialization set up. Next Read more
Software test is all about breaking the application, which can be hard sometimes when there is an emotional attachment. My colleague Peter and previous interns working on the project have done a great job and their code is working fine. For my part, i need to make sure p3muka, the Read more
Progress bar I started this week with implementing a progress bar on the code editor component to indicate the status of a background process. I always thought that progress bars were cool, especially the one used by YouTube. Luckily for me i did not have to built one from scratch. Read more
This week I try to configure the FPGA using PIC32 with slave serial method. C array bit file First I convert the binary file of FPGA into C array (Hex format) so that I could use SPI 8bit or 16bit to send the hex data bits by bits into FPGA. Read more
This week, I have been trying to complete the Master SPI module (MSPI) as soon as possible. In the simulator, the MSPI is suppose to send data to a device and/or read data from a device. This can be done by using the same function. I created a ‘transfer’ function Read more
Browsers compatibility Last week, I found out that a crash occurred when using Mozilla instead of Chromium browser, which was caused by a memory fault. I was passing a variable from one session to another in the application: In chromium, there was no issue as the first session was destroyed Read more
This week I continue testing the board. Trying to fix the OSI layer of PIC32 with LAN8720. Studying different board behavior with same code I first started with programming the rest of the board with the same code and realize that the current board I am using have a different Read more
This week is my last week of work as a part time engineer. I focused on the previous task that had been given, which is to develop a simple Verilog design. The Final Task Since the last task is to design a Verilog module, which I have not been doing it Read more