Chronicles from our peeps.
This week hasn’t been the most productive for me. I struggled to finish a simple dummy master to test the GPIO and to successfully connect my interface with the GPIO and make sure that all transactions are wishbone compatible. Having examined my results, my supervisor pointed out the following fatal Read more
For this week the task is to explore the Wishbone SOC and create a simple interconnect that is wishbone compatible. The interconnect is to be a slave to the processor and contain several masters that control various I/O devices. While learning what I need to do my new task I Read more
For my second week at AESTE, I was assigned to design and implement a GPIO using the wishbone protocol. The wishbone protocol is a standard method that is used by many processors to communicate to their IO devices. It is a format that uses several several signals in its BUS Read more
My First day started with introducing the workplace and the project I’ll be working on followed by a quick introduction about Verilog and the necessary tools that I need to use to do my work. For this week the goal will be to wrap up all the learning that I Read more
Last week, I was given the opportunity to explore several programs that I needed to use for my upcoming project. These were GIT, Icarus, GTK waveform viewer and finally ISE. I learnt how to store and manipulate files from a repository through GIT. I would recommend GIT to anyone who Read more
It was fun getting the Zedboard working on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. We are using 2012.4 version of ISE/Vivado Webpack. There are no major tricks in getting it to work but since there does not seem to be a guide out there, I thought that I’d write a quick one here. Read more
I managed to set up physical layer for ethernet connection after solving the error which came from the .c file that end with ‘#endif’. I just needed to add an empty line after ‘#endif’ and that solved the problem. When the board was powered up, the LED D8 was blinking, Read more
In order to allow communication between PIC microcontroller and PC, UART communication needs to be set up. I wrote a program to send data byte from PIC microcontroller to PC which the output was displayed through Minicom, a hyper terminal for linux. At first, the displayed output was gibberish. This Read more
My first week in the company, I was briefed on the project that I need to conduct throughout my internship. My task is to work on the PICDEM.NET2 development board which uses PIC18F97J60 microcontroller. The objective is to write a program which is able to download file from internet via Read more
I tested out the code I had already written and found out that the power up sequence was not working as expected. After consulting with my supervisor he advised me to enable pull-up resistors in port B and test the input and outputs for the each pin. By setting the Read more