{"id":45,"date":"2023-02-11T01:51:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/?p=45"},"modified":"2023-02-11T19:45:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T19:45:50","slug":"anju-itos-status-report-for-2-11-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/2023\/02\/11\/anju-itos-status-report-for-2-11-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Anju Ito&#8217;s Status Report for 2\/11\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Searched for FPGA\/microcontroller options that were available for purchase\n<ul>\n<li>Found out that FPGA chip on a custom PCB would most likely be a difficult option. I was restricting the search to Altera chips (and non-BGA if possible), and found that most chips were out-of-stock or too old so that any recent version of Quartus does not support this.\n<ul>\n<li>The search was restricted to Altera due to my prior experience in 341\/240.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Looked into a microcontroller that would have UART\/SPI, that would enable communication from the FTDI (USB-UART chip) to the lasers.\u00a0<strong>Filled out a purchase form for a MSP430 Launchpad.\u00a0<\/strong>Estimated day of delivery was Monday if it were ordered yesterday.\n<ul>\n<li>KJ and I both have experience using MSP430 in the past, which is why we narrowed down the search to this.<\/li>\n<li>We decided to get a dev board to test out its capability so we can make sure that it can support at least the 4Mbps communication to meet requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Work is on schedule, although the unavailability of FPGA chips were unexpected and I would need to iron out the plan of handling the communication.<\/li>\n<li>By next week, I hope to come up with a way to validate whether the microcontroller and FPGA dev board can support the communication requirements, and choose which design to proceed with based on this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searched for FPGA\/microcontroller options that were available for purchase Found out that FPGA chip on a custom PCB would most likely be a difficult option. I was restricting the search to Altera chips (and non-BGA if possible), and found that most chips were out-of-stock or too old so that any recent version of Quartus does &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/2023\/02\/11\/anju-itos-status-report-for-2-11-23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anju Ito&#8217;s Status Report for 2\/11\/23&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}