Besides working through the ethics assignment, I completed one of the setup guides on Varun’s git page. It was the platform setup, and it involved quite a few hours of reading and understanding what it’s doing and setting up the software. Through the guide, I was able to setup Vivado on my own machine, and worked through more of how to use and interact with that software. I also started on the next guide, which is setting up PetaLinux, another OS system that I will need for programming. Here’s a few pictures of what I did through the guide and what I set up.Â
Admittedly, I didn’t get as far as I hoped, as this week I had a few job interviews as well that I needed to prepare for and get through. However, I have good news and reason to believe that there won’t be any more time used for job hunting, so now I can fully focus on getting progress in this project. For next week, I am hoping to finish the PetaLinux guide and also finish the last guide on setting up the HLS kernel. Hopefully after these next ones are setup, I can fully understand how to use the KRIA for our project specifically, and proceed with writing code for our own project.