This week I focused on getting the UI ready to be tested by users. I learnt the basics of LUA and edited Anirudh’s original scripts to support a text preview and then the user can either accept the auto complete or regenerate the response. The UI now utilizes two hotkeys – cmd G to prompt the model and cmd L to remove the output if it isn’t what the user wants. I wanted to get the UI finished early so that we can start preliminary user testing (likely after spring break).
The other main thing I was focused on this week was watching/reading some Vitis tutorials to learn how to synthesize softcores on our new Kria FPGA.
Goals for next week:
- make significant progress on the design review report as that is due Friday
- Spend more time getting comfortable with Vitis EDA tools