This is the first week internship in Aeste Work (M) Sdn. Bhd.. The first day, Dr Shawn introduced the project background to us and I will work on the operating system of the project. The first and second day, I am practicing on using GIT tool for programming. GIT able to manage and record progression of programming during development period. For example, GIT can track files created in the folder. The amended file can commit using GIT with description from time Read more
While entering the last stages of creating the PCB, there are still some changes to be made to the circuit. In addition to these modifications, this week the solder mask, solder paste, and silkscreen have been created. Also, finally I was able to come up with an estimate for the power consumption of the Spartan-6 FPGA. Here’s what you need to know. Schematic and layout modifications Although the board has been laid out and successfully routed, some changes to the Read more
Great! My blog is in its third decade now. Happily declaring that the project is getting close to the end. This week the final main functionality has been added to it. The project now has the ability to compile the user C++ code, synthesize the top module and finally merge the bistream file and the elf file. Although everything is running correctly, the code has some small bugs here and there. So this week I had to fix things Read more
This week’s post is relatively short, as I spent most of the time doing the actual routing, so nothing much to talk about here! However, I will highlight some of the concepts and considerations that are important while routing. First let me say that all the board connections have been routed and most of the 3D models have been assigned to the components. Only the oscillator, and the memory card socket don’t have 3D models yet. Well, that’s not the Read more
Debugger After trying on the break point implementation last week, I decided to work on interface with Sumia and Islam’s code. As pre-discussed with my supervisor, the simulator should be the back-end engine and should not have any visible interface in the Web Application. In order to ensure things going well, I took everything work on step by step, as I thought that things will not goes well if I merged all the break point codes that I had implemented Read more
Sadly I’ve just realized that my internship is getting closer to the end. Cannot really describe how I feel… Just mixed feelings. But what I really know is that this period has really enriched my life in all aspects. lol, Stop being so dramatic and get back to the work girl 3:) ! Introduction: This week I continued working on the integration of the project. Last week if you still remember I was stuck in the driver and I/O addresses. Read more
Last week after finishing the schematics I started with assigning and creating the components footprints. This was the first thing I finished this week, though it took some time to finish them. Afterwards, I started with placing the components on the board. Placing Components First things first; our board is compatible with the Arduino board, so its size should be the same as Arduino. Also, I/O ports should be located as the same location so Arduin’s shields and modules can Read more
The C Program Compilation of RISC-V Angel After weeks of debugging the 32-bit RISC-V engine, discussion with my supervisor, and searching over the internet, I finally found out the problem. The problem is with the stack pointer, the RISC-V Angel is not designed in the way of initializing their own stack pointer. Therefore, I have to initialize the stack pointer manually or to create a new crt0.o that initialize the stack pointer to solve the problem. Fortunately, the manual initialization Read more
Well this week the progress was relatively slow, and the output could really approach to zero, although the task at first glance seemed quite easy and that it could be done within one day only 😛 . Picking up from where we left off last week, the total project integration continued. In this week my task was divided into three: first I should modify some part of project which related to Xilinx synthesis tool (XST) and the project file that Read more
RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) is designed to support computer architecture research and education, and completely free for academia and industry use. By using the reference of RISCV-Angel, which is running with the RV64 (64-bit) architecture. My task is to make sure that the RISCV-Angel is able to run on the RV32 (32-bit) architecture as well. The debugging of the Hello_World program is not going well as I am still getting the “undefined error 0”. Thanks to my supervisor, whom taught me Read more
