This and last week I spent time working with the SDR’s that we received. We gladly were able to receive SDR’s from Dr.Kumar’s lab and me and Vrishab spent time setting up our digital environment to use the devices. We were able to set up multiple computers on all different OS’s (Mac, Windows, Linux) with the GNU Radio software so that we could find out which was the easiest to work with. Upon doing this, we were able to plug in both devices into our computers and have the signals be seen in sync. The signals that we were looking at were radio waves from radio stations and since they were audio we could verify that we were picking up the signals properly since we could play it back in real-time. We further started working on porting the I/Q data to be analyzed in real-time so that we could apply our beamforming algorithm but this process is currently in the works this and will most likely be finished the day after this post is out before our next meeting.
In terms of the hardware aspect I have started on configuring my environment and software suite (Vivado, HLS, etc.) I was able to pick up the Zynq board and have been working with it to make sure that everything works and interfaces properly.
Team-wise we have also been working on refining our team schedule to be more detailed and I have been working on trying to come up with a lot more detailed list which will specify what specific deliverables I need and when