So it has been 2 weeks since the last time I’ve blogged and a lot have happened since then. Today we just finished the design and testing of the SPI peripheral device. That includes an SPI Master and slave that are wishbone compatible and a dummy master to test those Read more
On my fifth week here, I finished up the SPI that was compatible with the Wishbone bus. I was able to have it working for the four modes of the SCLK. I had to make many changes to the design because I did not have the right idea of the Read more
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
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
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
In my fourth week at AESTE, I worked on my spi design. I made many many changes with the help of my mentor. Firstly, I was able to introduce an edge detector that uses two registers on a clk to capture the positive ad the negative edge of the sclk. Read more
This week wasn’t the brightest. Our tasks from last week has been dragged to this one which is designing a GPIO and a wishbone interface and a dummy master to drive the GPIO, the later being my task. It was a cloudy day full of rain and sweat, definitely not Read more
In my third week, I worked on designing a GPIO device that uses the wishbone protocol. This project was the same one i was working on last week. I was able to finish my part this week. My gpio basically consists of a direction register and a data register that Read more