Besides helping write the design review presentation and listening to everyone’s presentation while giving feedback, this week parts that I ordered last week arrived, and I worked through understanding how all of them work together and tried to setup the KRIA on a machine so I could get started. Last week I found a display port to display port connection that would connect to the spare monitor in HH1307, but unfortunately I couldn’t find it again this week. Looked around in the 1300 wing, went to A104 and ECE receiving as well but to no avail. Thus I had to send in another order for that cord, and unfortunately could’t progress with actually setup the KRIA. What I could do was test the cords that did arrive, and I verified that I had everything besides the display.Â
The display port will put the output of the KRIA onto a monitor so you can see what’s happening, so since I didn’t have that output cord I couldn’t really continue. But what I could do was make sure I fully understood everything else that was interfacing with the KRIA, which there were a few. I consulted Varun for any clarifications I needed and compiled this table below that showcases all the wiring coming in and out of the KRIA.
| Port connections I need | Do I have it? | Port Usage |
| Power Supply to outlet | Yes | Powers Board |
| Ethernet M2M | Yes | Transfer files to run on KRIA, all coding will be done on my laptop and be sent over |
| MicroUSB to USB | Yes | Unknown usage, confirmed by Varun it’s probably unnecessary. |
| Micro SD cards | Arrived | Flash PetaLinux and Ubuntu onto two separate mircoSD cards, so upon plugin the KRIA SOC can read and use the OS |
| USB Mouse | @ home | Interface I/O |
| USB Keyboard | Yes | Interface I/O |
| Display Port M2M | Ordered | To display KRIA output onto monitor |
I’ve identified everything that’s needed, read up more on Varun’s guide as well as the AMD KR260 setup guide, and determined how I will proceed next week once all the components are together. Unfortunately not being able to do much today puts me a little behind on schedule, but that works out a little as this week has been quite busy with other work. Once the parts arrive next week, my workload should also have cooled down a little and I will be able to catch back up. I’m aiming to have the first thing I do to catch up be to connect up the KRIA and run an example project. During this time I can also study up more on Varun’s guide on how to setup the Vitis and Vivado software.