First week at AESTE

My first week at AESTE, I was introduced to something that I have never used before which was the new operating system of Ubuntu. Being a complete tyro at it, I was a little puzzled at how this operating system works. I was required to learn about the GIT software Read more…

Shooting Troubles #2

This lab was really annoying in terms of things that didn’t want to work When trying to export hardware for SDK in PlanAhead error shows [Common 17-49] Internal Data Exception: xps application failed SDK requires gmake, we can solve it by simple linking: cd /usr/bin sudo ln -s make gmake Read more…

Shooting Troubles #1

As a part of my training I was to play a little bit with the Zedboard development kit from Digilent. Unfortunately, running all of the provided by Xilinx tools (ISE 14.4) on linux (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS here) can be sometimes problematic. I will try to list all the issues I Read more…

Week 0010

After second week I can say I start to know what is really going on. First of all, the language I am using is called Verilog, not Very Log as I was convinced previously. Secondly it is not required for the code to rhyme, nor each line to have equal Read more…

Week 0001

Hi, my name is Radek and I am the new intern in Aeste Works. The first week has passed during which I was familiarizing myself with the workplace and the task I will be working on over my 3-months-long internship. My job will focus on describing hardware using a strange Read more…

A stumble along the road

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…

Second Week: Wishbone SOC

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…