Chronicles from our peeps.
It turns out that understanding how web technology works is a hindrance to working with the Witty framework. I keep trying to relate the framework workings to the underpinning web technologies. However, what I should do is to just accept the framework as it is.
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In my second week, time was an issue. Therefore, I attempted to finish up more this week (my third week) so that I can cover the workload from week two. Generally, I am supposed to finish the opcodes by the end of this week. However, like 99% of the things with programming, it always ends up as an underestimation.
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In my second week, time was an issue. Therefore, I attempted to finish up more this week (my third week) so that I can cover the workload from week two. Generally, I am supposed to finish the opcodes by the end of this week. However, like 99% of the things with programming, it always ends up as an underestimation.
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For my second week, I couldn’t work as much as I imagined. After finishing the basic utilities and a general understanding of what I needed, I set off to write the opcodes. The opcodes require more time and effort because ultimately I would like to get it right the first time. However, that requires a general understanding of the aeMB processor.
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The journey of analysing AEMB is finally reaching a destination. In this post I will discuss AEMB’s interface with the data memory and with the accelerator bus. Moreover, I will explain the design of the execution unit and highlight some of it’s parts that I can’t comprehend yet. Finally I Read more…
Dissecting AEMB continues. In this post I will give an overview about the instruction set architecture (ISA) of the AEMB and its register file. Finally I’ll explain how AEMB communicates with the data memory and the accelerator bus. Since AEMB code is compiled using the Microblaze toolchain, the ISA of Read more…
Over the past weeks I’ve been exploring the architecture of microprocessors in general and AEMB’s in particular. I wish I can say I am done with dissecting AEMB but I ain’t. In this blog post I will give a quick overview about my project and give a functional description of Read more…
My first week started with tons of reading. I read about the architecture of MicroBlaze. Shawn also told Mostafa and I about the difference between MicroBlaze and AEMB. The most important thing to note is the process of running multiple threads concurrently. I must be able to implement that with Read more…
As we are developing a new web application, the question of which framework to use came up. There are many great frameworks around such as cakephp, django, ruby on rails, etc. However, we ended up settling on Witty for one simple reason – all the people we hire know C/C++ Read more…
After 16 weeks, 80 days and approximately 640 hours, my time at Aeste Works finally came to an end on 20th December 2013. It feels like such a long time ago that I was fretting about making it on time on my first day. I definitely feel older and wiser Read more…