Kavish’s Status Report for 2/10/24

This week we finished and presented our proposals to the class and analyzed the feedback from the TAs and Professors. Apart from that I downloaded Vivado and Vitis tools on my computer to start ramping up the FPGA development. I started exploring the basic steps of understanding the block diagrams and stepping through the synthesis tool flow. I have also been working with Neeraj to understand different Human Pose Estimation models (OpenPose and MediaPipe) and the feasibility of porting them onto the FPGA. I found a detailed resource that has implemented ICAIPose network onto the DPU, and will try to replicate their steps this week to understand feasibility and performance. As long as I can get the board and tools set up by next week, I should be on schedule and maintain progress according to Gantt Chart.