This week, we used one week out of our planned slack time because we were experiencing hardships in the hardware interface between MIDI and the FPGA. We wanted to take time this week and try to get the hardware working before moving on to our next checkpoint. The main reason for this difficulty is the fact that the cable that we bought for connecting the MIDI to the MIDI breakout board isn’t functional. So, instead of processing our MIDI input with MIDI –> breakout board –> FPGA, we decided to go directly from MIDI to FPGA with a USB connection. Fortunately, we were able to get MIDI signal transmission working via USB, and we are actually able to hear audible output from a DAC.
We have updated our Gantt chart to reflect this change in schedule.