New Kid on the ‘Blog’

This is going to be my first weekly blog post at Aeste! I just joined this company as intern. As for the first week of my internship, Shawn asked me to study Git and do some C programming tutorials just to make sure that my understanding of the C language Read more…

Week 5: SPI done!

So it has been 2 weeks since the last time I’ve blogged and a lot have happened since then. Today we just finished the design and testing of the SPI peripheral device. That includes an SPI Master and slave that are wishbone compatible and a dummy master to test those Read more…

SPI Finishing

On my fifth week here, I finished up the SPI that was compatible with the Wishbone bus. I was able to have it working for the four modes of the SCLK. I had to make many changes to the design because I did not have the right idea of the Read more…

First week at AESTE

My first week at AESTE, I was introduced to something that I have never used before which was the new operating system of Ubuntu. Being a complete tyro at it, I was a little puzzled at how this operating system works. I was required to learn about the GIT software Read more…

Shooting Troubles #2

This lab was really annoying in terms of things that didn’t want to work When trying to export hardware for SDK in PlanAhead error shows [Common 17-49] Internal Data Exception: xps application failed SDK requires gmake, we can solve it by simple linking: cd /usr/bin sudo ln -s make gmake Read more…

Shooting Troubles #1

As a part of my training I was to play a little bit with the Zedboard development kit from Digilent. Unfortunately, running all of the provided by Xilinx tools (ISE 14.4) on linux (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS here) can be sometimes problematic. I will try to list all the issues I Read more…

Week 0010

After second week I can say I start to know what is really going on. First of all, the language I am using is called Verilog, not Very Log as I was convinced previously. Secondly it is not required for the code to rhyme, nor each line to have equal Read more…

Week 0001

Hi, my name is Radek and I am the new intern in Aeste Works. The first week has passed during which I was familiarizing myself with the workplace and the task I will be working on over my 3-months-long internship. My job will focus on describing hardware using a strange Read more…