This week I pushed my basic FreeRTOS port onto a release branch on GIT (yay) as functionality is good. It’s very simple. It has 3 apps related to USB, FPGA and TCP/IP. The USB CDC app task maintains the state of the driver and creates another task whose job is checking the status of certain global Read more…
My progress with building web applications with Witty was kind of unpredictable. Some of the days I was able to complete most of the functionalities of a web page while on others barely anything could be accomplished. I guess this is what happens when one gets stuck in the cycle Read more…
Week 5. I continued working on utilizing FreeRTOS for our board as last week I had done a very improper implementation. In my inexperienced eyes, everything was working, but more and more issues were appearing. That’s when Dr. Shawn took a look at the chaos I’ve created. Basically I didn’t understand well Read more…
Using one word to describe this week’s progress, that would be the word SLOW. Or more accurate, SLOWEST! The week however, just passed so fast. I was disappointed when I realized it was already end of the week and I have achieved nothing. Nothing – Not a thing, design code Read more…
This week I was tasked with migrating our PIC32 code so it would use the superior FreeRTOS architecture instead of a superloop. Having no experience in FreeRTOS whatsoever I began by skimming through the first 3 chapters of documentation to get me started. Later I simply enabled the FreeRTOS third party library in Harmony Configurator Read more…
I started off this week by designing the code for a passive buzzer. It was quite a simple task as I only made a few changes compared to the previous design made, they only have outputs that needed to be sent without having to read the inputs. I ran my Read more…
I was having unfinished work from last week of not having the results I wanted from the test bench. The acknowledge signal of Wishbone does not behave as what was expected. I edited the design code but it still did not work correctly. I asked Dr. Shawn about this and Read more…
It’s already week 3. Time flies on internship. Its really not boring either. I sometimes spend +8 hours in the office but I’m never thinking “Oh man when can I leave?” Instead its “shit I’ve been here for 10 hours I should probably leave”. This week’s work was a continuation of last weeks’. First Read more…
This was my second week here. I was tasked with troubleshooting and characterizing the boards. There are in total seven prototypes for me to play with. The boards are divided into old and new boards. The main differences are that the new boards use slightly different PIC32 and Spartan-6 chips. Read more…
On Monday, I was almost done with the design code for my first module, a 7 colour auto flash LED. I chose this module to start with as it is quite simple to program (only outputs), in the hopes that I can finish it quick. However, what seem simplest is Read more…