This week, I installed Vivado on my personal laptop and began familiarizing myself with our virtual PYNQ-Z2 board. I ran through some tutorials using Vivado’s behavioral simulation and this week, I would like to see it function correctly on our hardware. It will be very useful to have Vivado available during our biweekly class time!
As a team this week, we narrowed down a specific number and allocation of knobs and buttons for the front panel. There are a few things to still consider, but I went ahead and made a rudimentary CAD assembly for the front panel. This includes 25 knobs, an LED matrix, a screen, and three buttons for choosing patches. It is a rudimentary design, but the dimensions worked out well (2.5×8.5×37.5in) and there is room for adjustment. We will talk about it together this week and I will make the necessary adjustments.
Next week, I will have completed a midi interface in the ZYNQ and have it output a noise or at least the name of a note in text. I am a little behind schedule, but we all had some major design choices to agree on this week. Now that we have done that, I believe we can get really get to work.
