Personal tasks of this week:
Task: Preliminary Circuit Simulation:
Definition: According the Sergey’s thesis, the theoretical circuit primitives were found to model the mathematical constraint. However, the circuits need to be modified to realize the theoretical circuit, as it contains ideal circuits that don’t exist in the real world.
Completion: The task is partially completed. The circuit was researched and equivalent components from the thesis that can be sourced now were found for each component. The circuit was attempted first in PSpice, but decided to transition into using LTSpice, as we realized the speed of learning and prototyping ability of LTSpice was much more important given our time constraints compared to the features available on PSpice. A basic schematic was built for each primitive, but has not been tested extensively for the simple optimization circuit
Next Steps:
The next steps are to use PSpice to create the simulation of the simple optimization circuit and verify if the minimum energy state converges to the expected solution.
Overall progress assessment:
My progress is slightly behind-schedule, as I still need to finish up the optimization circuit, but it should not be that difficult to catch up, as the components have already been selected and imported.