My task for the week was to write a GPIO driver that is compatible to Arduino using C++ language. Although I have learnt the basics ways of coding in C++, I was asked to go through a C++ tutorial again, which indeed helped me quite a lot when writing the Read more…
I started my 6th week at Aeste by re-studying the beaglebone-6502 project done by matt porter of Texas Instruments. The reason my supervisor asked me to look back to this project was because it is simple and gives a good view of how remoteproc framework can be used. After studying Read more…
As mentioned in my previous post, this week I will be working on source codes for the 5 classic stage of RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) pipeline which includes fetch, decode, execute, memory access and writeback. But before I get my hand started on these, I was reminded by supervisor to Read more…
Dear diary, This was my 9th week at Aeste and 2nd working on ECDSA. I am surprised but there actually is some progress in my current project. Field arithmetic part (most important) is almost done so starting from next week I can proceed to implement actual algorithm, which is not Read more…
Last time, we faced the challenge of designing the circuit and hardware interfaces of our Spartan-6/PIC18 board. This week, we return for more work on the schematics and shift focus to a different aspect of our project: writing the firmware for the PIC18. My colleague, Jia Xien, has been busy Read more…
It turns out that the TCP/IP MDD Demo given by Microchip is not that useful. It mainly redefined all the functions to open webpages stored in SD cards instead. They did not modify the part where the original used to upload a file.But a file named “FileSystem.c” is particularly useful Read more…
That’s RIGHT! I am the daring kid who asked for a medical leave on my first day of work! As an advice to all other interns or future-interns, never do what I have done! Despite of all the terrible things happening on my first day, I did carry on my Read more…
I’m still working on how to initialize Block RAMs using DATA2MEM software. I have managed to produce a bit file with initialized RAMs. What’s left is to write a linker script to suit our addressing space, write a C file to blink the LEDs using GPIOs and finally get this Read more…
“Welcome to Galois Field F(2m) where elements are made up and carry doesn’t matter” If this sounds familiar you should probably turn off TV sometimes (or youtube). Nothing much was happening this week, I mostly spent it struggling with understanding and at later stage designing the ECDSA module. Man, Read more…
This week wasn’t very productive on the first few days as I can say. Has been working on source code that is to build a basic processor class in Java. Although the name of it is so called a BASIC processor class but unfortunately it isn’t 100% fall on the “basic” Read more…