Compared to my work the title might be a little too fancy but hopefully our switches will evolve from simple switches to a smart interconnect between the processor and all other system components. Do you remember the second version of the accelerator switch I talked about in my previous blog Read more…
It was an up and down week of sorts. It didn’t start off but as the week wore on and with some crucial help/advice from the supervisor and colleague, the desired task was achieved, although it is yet to see if it was the best solution to the problem at Read more…
this week was quite an interesting one I got familiar with my work place. I made some new friends with whom I shared a meal or two together. As for my studies I read through the Webtool Kit tutorials and references , and I managed to code my first project Read more…
The I2C core made a lot of progress this week. While I was hoping last week not to use a FSM in my slave I couldn’t resist the temptation. My slave have a FSM and is almost 95% ready. The hardest part is the acknowledge part. Not only that the Read more…
After scratching the surface into the world of SD cards and how they store data, almost all of the week was spent into trying to figure out as much as possible about the abilities of these storage devices. Admittedly, I was led astray by my own curiosity about the File Read more…
I2C is the last IO device going into our system, for now. I2C is more complicated than both UART and SPI. It’s complication is due to it’s ability to have many masters and slaves on the same bus. Moreover, having only one bidirectional line(SDA) for data transfer adds to it’s Read more…
This week had a lot of testing going. First of all UART is 90% done. It has been tested by simulation and on FPGA communicating with the PC through Minicom. I’ve faced a very interesting issue while testing UART on Spartan 6 ATLYS board. My UART can transmit data to Read more…
This is my last week interning at AESTE, what I have done were doing the final checking and making some modifications during the first three days of the week. I had to change the drivers into class templates whereas my colleague, Mostafa tested the ARC4 and ECDSA drivers on the Read more…
Running to the bus-stop to try to catch the 9:00am UCSI bust before it runs away, all I could think was “God, I don’t want to be late on the first day!”. But the butterflies in my stomach gave me enough of a kick to get on the bus in Read more…
This is my last week at Aeste. I’m glad that I managed to complete the task assigned to me! Basically, this week is all about wrapping up all my works. I continued working on my sphinx documentation although there were not many things to add because I’ve put everything that Read more…