Weekly Updates

ECE487 Site Crawl

Week of 1/20/20

Created new Google Site - added GitHub link
Created new repository on GitHub for VHDL designs
Installed Vivado WEBPACK on Linux Mint (Ubuntu) OS

Contribution:

Advised Professor Lu to enable search engine indexing on the course's google site
This allows us to crawl the site with a tool such as ScreamingFrog SEO Spider for broken links
As of 1/23/20, all links are operational - site crawl is provided to the left

Week of 1/27/20

Read Chapters 1-4, "Free Range VHDL" by Mealy & Tappero

Week of 2/3/20

Began working on Lab 1, Part 1: Leddec (image included)
Debugged a few configuration issues with Vivado

Week of 2/10/20

Finished Lab 1, Part 2: HexCount (image included)
Learned about Finite State Machines
Borrowed a microprocessor over the weekend to experiment

Week of 2/17/20

One class - president's day
Revisited Finite State Machines
Leveraged Xlinix experience at a job interview for G3 Technologies - they use VHDL and primarily Xlinix microprocessors :)

Week of 2/24/20

Reviewed "Free Range VHDL"
Worked on Lab 2 with lab table - boot from memory

Week of 3/2/20 - No Class

No Class - Professor Lu at IEEE conference in New Dheli
Brought microprocessor home - experiemented with some custom coding

Week of 3/9/20

Completed Lab 2 - began working on Lab 3 independently
Brought microprocessor home - experiemented with some custom coding
Class moved online due to Coronavirus Pandemic

Week of 3/16/20 -

Spring Break / Society Collapsed

No Class - Spring Break
Coronavirus pandemic began to affect American life:
- Was evicted from my dorm - moved out of Hoboken
- Was laid off - no more resident assistant :(
- Cancelled a trip to Florida - self quarantined on Long Island

Week of 3/23/20

Class moved online for the remainder of the semester
Brought FPGA home - continued working on Lab 3
Began to look at Lab 4

Week of 3/30/20

Brainstorming ideas for final project
Unfortunately needed to dedicate most of my time this week towards studying for midterms in other classes

Week of 4/6/20

Am searching for a VGA-compatible monitor for Lab 3 - these things are not common nowadays
Do not have a VGA monitor - skipping lab 3 for now

Week of 4/13/20

Found a VGA monitor buried in the basement - completed Lab 3 game of pong
Worked on Lab4 - no PMOD available, will probably be skipping
Began looking into interface between RPi3 and FPGA to explore for a course project

Week of 4/20/20

Collected necessary wires to measure an RPi GPIO signal at the FPGA - may use RPi keyboard to simulate FPGA PMOD?
Began organizing & commenting locally-hosted VHDL codes to be conducive for relocation to GitHub
Began looking into Lab 5

Week of 4/27/20

Need to reassess direction for final project
- original plan was to emulate PMOD with raspberry pi, such that I could complete PMOD-dependent labs (4,5,6) in quarentine
- This is infeasible - each PMOD uses circuitry to achieve digital-to-analog conversion - this is not a feature included with RPi GPIO
Compiled and ran Lab 5 - am unable to test or modify the program without the PMOD siren. Tried to reorganize the code to send sound signal to headphone jack, was unsuccessful
- Are we expected to modify the code when we cannot test without PMOD???
Began looking into Lab 6
Completed home page, weekly updates, and labs 1,2,3 pages on newly revamped website design

Week of 5/4/20

Finished all labs - documented them in lab section
Finished final project - used RPi to emulate PMOD for lab 6 pong
Will continue to document work on newly revamped webpage this week, needs to be finished by thursday or I will run out of time and fail other finals lol
Graduating in 15 days bye

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