This week my job scope was about the TCPIP. I need to use the PICDEM.net 2 as a TCP echo server that listen on a TCP/IP socket and transmits back exactly everything that it receives. There are some demos in the microchip application library, what I have to do was Read more…
My task of this week is the configuration of FPGA. I had to configure the Spartan 6 XC6SLX9 FPGA in the slave serial mode, by using the USART port in the PIC18F97J60. This is something really new to me and web references are scare. Therefore, the only way is to Read more…
This week I continue on the working of SPI. The main problem is the writing through the page border of EEPROM. To write across the page, it is required to resend the write command and assigned new address. Firstly, I wrote a code that will keep refresh the address inside Read more…
This week I worked on the UART communication. My task is to transmit and receive the bytes of data via the RS232 port of the PICDEM.net 2. Dr. Shawn gave me a brief on the process and introduced the minicom program to me, in order for me to verify whether Read more…
On 29 June 2015, I started the first week of my internship programme at Aeste. On the first day, my supervisor Dr. Shawn introduced the workplace and gave me a short brief of the task. Next, he guided me on how to login to system and access to the necessary Read more…
Last week after finishing the schematics I started with assigning and creating the components footprints. This was the first thing I finished this week, though it took some time to finish them. Afterwards, I started with placing the components on the board. Placing Components First things first; our board is Read more…
Now for real, the circuit is finished, and I have started with assigning and creating the footprints for the components. There are no one major updates this week, but rather a lot of changes and modifications to the schematics. As usual, here is the visual diff for this week. Additions Read more…
Good news everyone, the circuit is finished 😀 ! Well, not so fast! Now everything is connected, but there are some last minute modifications to the circuit that were introduced just now. I will work on those first thing next week, and hopefully, I will start with the PCB layout. Read more…
I continues working on the schematics this week. By now, almost all the major components in the circuit are connected. Last week I connected the Ethernet jack, SD card, and some of the microcontroller connections. This week I did the connections for the USB port power pins, FPGA I/O ports, Read more…
The week was spent trying to look for ways to optimize the file upload time to suit the required objective having made some strides on that path during the previous week. Apart from that, a few modifications were made to the MBR editing function. MBR Partition informations It is important Read more…