This week, we primarily focused on figuring out how to proceed with the project, what changes we’d need to make, and reevaluated our unit tests. We decided to cut out the audio portion of our project, since we will no longer have access to the tools we would need to get the audio circuitry working.
Professor Nace ensured each one of us has a board (thank you!), so we will still be able to make significant headway towards the project, and work on each individual component of the system independently. However, as a consequence of scratching out the audio functionality, Tess will be working primarily on the CPU, giving Adolfo and Pratyusha more time to work on the PPU/graphics and SOC/Controller-Driver. Integration is going to be harder since we cannot work on the project synchronously. To counter this, our goal is to come up with fully functional components and good unit tests, to prove that each component worked even if integration fails.
Attached herewith is our statement of work.