I spent the majority of this week continuing to brainstorm project ideas. I looked into papers describing image processing and AI acceleration on FPGAs, before we settled on our idea on Wednesday. I then searched online and found many sources describing similar ideas (e.g., FPGA based accelerator for functional simulation, FPGA-accelerated evaluation and verification of RTL designs), which helped us confirm the validity of the use case and solution.
On Friday, I, along with my teammates, met with Prof. Bill Nace to discuss this idea further. I also set up the website. This weekend, I will help make the proposal slides. I am on schedule to meeting deliverables.
Next week, I will research communication protocols to send data to and obtain data from the FPGA. We should settle on one feasible protocol and begin implementing/benchmarking it.