Progress
This week we were all individually tasked with completing the first pass of all of the sections of the pipeline that we were responsible for in preparation for the midterm demo. This meant that Charles worked on completing the FPGA interface with the DAC and the on board connection layout for this purpose. Hailang was tasked with making sure the UART decode and the MIDI message construction, and the support circuitry for the MIDI signal was ready for the midterm demo, while continuing work on the effects chain. Jens worked on creating a simplified version of the digital synthesis pipeline. A few key features are being added latter for the purpose of having as functional a midterm demo as possible. The goal for the midterm demo is to have a single note be able to be played through the system from keyboard press to DAC output. This coming up week is going to be spent finalizing all of the modules for this purpose and connecting them all together for the midterm demo version of the project.
Scheduling
This is slightly behind schedule from where we would have originally liked to have been because we overestimated how much time we would have before the midterm demo for the project. The schedule has been slightly shifted around to move some portions of the project to after the midterm demo to make sure that the parts that we are aiming to include all work as intended. Many of the features that are to be added after this first iteration of the synthesizer, such as the polyphony, are scaled up versions of the modules that will be included in the midterm demo. As a result the modules for this pass of the synthesizer will be designed for adaptation to the final version in mind.
