Chronicles from our peeps.
The previous function of reading a sector is using a 512 bytes buffer, by doing minor modifying on the tightest loop to write into a pointer instead of a buffer. The function can read from sector indefinitely (theoretically) using multi-block read. If a read is less than 512 bytes, it Read more
My new task is to remove the Icache module from AEMB. Basically Icache holds all instructions before execution by the core. Icache acquires the instructions from whatever is holding them externally and keeps them for processing. Icache controls the Instructions WB interface through the ich_hit signal. When the processor needs Read more
Continuing from where we left off last week, we make a few last-minute additions to the Spartan-6 schematics and design the footprints of the components in preparation for PCB design. Just a short post this week, but click here to skip to the conclusion. Hardware Schematics With all the pins Read more
This week, I was given a task to write a driver for the Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1), which ultimately produces a 160-bit of hash value. It wasn’t as simple as I thought it would be as it’s quite different from the drivers that I wrote earlier. Apart from understanding Read more
This week, the nature of my main task changed a little. From developing the remoteproc driver for X86 architecture I’m now required to do it for the raspberry pi which uses an ARM processor. This is because the main product of our company is not completely ready, and my supervisor Read more
After putting my current project on halt for a week time, finally I’m back to track to work on my T3ras project. This week I focus mainly on the execute stage in pipeline to execute and manipulate each of the MicroBlaze instruction sets into semantics operation written in Java. Since Read more
The above blinking LEDs are not regular blinking LEDs. These LEDs are connected to the output of a GPIO. That GPIO is controlled by the AEMB2 microprocessor and the AEMB2 microprocessor is fetching it’s instructions from a 16K block RAM that has been loaded with data using the DATA2MEM software. Read more
Finally! After another week I managed to force the module to work (correctly!). I had a really hard time debugging it, since you can’t simply expect to find a mistake by looking at seemingly random combinations of 163bits. I was forced to run again and again through the whole code Read more
First Modification (29 June 2013) Three text files are created with size of 35 KB, 175KB and 350 KB. The files were created by simply duplicating the whole 35 KB text file five times and 10 times respectively. By using the Timer1 module created last week, the read time for Read more
There goes another week. Task for this week is quite similar to last week’s, I was asked to write a MSPI driver. Before I started, I had no idea what it is and what does it do, so I was waiting for my supervisor to fill me up with all Read more