This week I spent a decent amount of time practicing for the presentation I had on Wednesday. I spent time going over it both by myself and with Shaye and Jessie so that they could give me feedback on the presentation.
I also spent some time helping Jessie with the Zynq UltraScale+ tutorial: https://xilinx.github.io/Vitis-AI/3.0/html/docs/quickstart/mpsoc.html. I mainly did the first half of the tutorial of setting up the necessary software that is needed and making sure the target was up and running correctly. There were a couple issues that we had while going through the tutorial. There were a couple of minor issues that got in the way such as incorrectly flashing the SD card and not having the correct micro USB to USB A cord (we only had a charging cable so had to run to the store to get one). Another issue was that the Kria KV260 needs internet connection in order to download certain packages but it can only access the internet through an ethernet port. I had to figure out how to provide internet to the Kria KV260 using the ethernet port on my laptop as we had no easy access to a router. After we solved these issues running the example model in the first half tutorial was relatively easy to do. Once the target was running and setup, Jessie took over and completed the second half of the tutorial.
Lastly, for the web apps I did not do as much work as I would have wanted on it this week. I was caught up with different things in capstone and in my different courses. However, I was still able to take a look at how different web app examples to get a better understanding of how Django works and is typically used.
I think I have not progressed on the web apps as much as I would have wanted. I didn’t expect this week to be as busy as it has been so that was an oversight on my part. I am not too worried thought because we will have more work sessions coming in the following weeks so I believe I should be able to catch up the. Additionally, there is no major urgency to finish the web app (before meeting Professor Dueck and her students) so I think it is acceptable to be slightly behind. Also, I think it was more important to help with the FPGA as that is a priority for us as we want to make sure we are able to get the CV models we want working on it ASAP.
Next week, I hope to catch up on the work that I was supposed to do this week for the web app. Additionally, I believe we should be obtaining another SD card for the RPi so I should be able to set that up and perhaps set up a test server on the RPi to understand how it works.