{"id":45,"date":"2020-10-03T00:15:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T00:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teama0\/?p=45"},"modified":"2020-10-03T00:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T00:15:54","slug":"venkatas-status-update-for-10-2-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teama0\/2020\/10\/03\/venkatas-status-update-for-10-2-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Venkata&#8217;s Status Update for 10\/2\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week was predominantly focused on set up and research related tasks. In terms of set-up tasks, I set up the website for the rest of the team and also picked up the Kintex-7 FPGA board from the Academic Center.\u00a0In terms of the research related tasks, the primary goal of the past week was to learn the UART communication protocol. I was able to familiarize myself with the protocol and be able to understand how the FPGA and the host computer will interact with one another. I was able to find code snippets that use the python library <em>pySerial\u00a0<\/em>to transmit data from a computer port with UART. On the other hand, I was also able to find Verilog code snippets that resemble a UART transmitter and receiver. So, I was able to finish the task for learning the protocol.<\/p>\n<p>However, this week was also allocated for beginning to implement the logic. In order to do so, I tried to run the BIST (built-in self-test) on the Kintex-7 board but am currently running into issues because the board doesn&#8217;t appear to be transmitting the expected data to the host computer. Furthermore, programming the board requires Vivado, which is not available on MacOS, so I had to partition my MacBook and install bootcamp before I could install Vivado. For the upcoming week, I plan on resolving the issues and being able to successfully run the BIST and running through the UART option that is present. After which, I plan on finishing the implementation of the logic to communicate between the board and computer, which will allow me to stay on task with the schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was predominantly focused on set up and research related tasks. In terms of set-up tasks, I set up the website for the rest of the team and also picked up the Kintex-7 FPGA board from the Academic Center.\u00a0In terms of the research related tasks, the primary goal of the past week was to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teama0\/2020\/10\/03\/venkatas-status-update-for-10-2-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Venkata&#8217;s Status Update for 10\/2\/20&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teama0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teama0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teama0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teama0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teama0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teama0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teama0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teama0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teama0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teama0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}