Audio Playback using ZPU-Soft Processor in FPGA
Having worked with a variety of microcontrollers from AVR to ARM Cortex controllers, I bought a Xilinx FPGA dev board(papilio One) which around $40 to experiment. After getting comfortable with Verilog HDL, I implemented few data encoders-decoders, communication blocks and played around a while. Then my attention turned towards implementing a Soft-core Processor in FPGA. […]
Shell Scripting to Display Bar Graphs in Linux Terminal
This week was quite hectic for me with course assignments and their merciless deadlines. One such assignment in Advanced Computer Architecture was simulation of various benchmarks in alpha architecture in simplescalar, a well-known computer architecture simulator. I was supposed to run a total of 4 benchmarks with different configurations of cache memory, instruction issue widths, commit […]
Won 2nd place in National Level Electronics Design Contest !!!
Last month could have been never better without the “Electronics For you ” design contest‘s results announcement. I was delighted to find my name at the 2nd place in the winner’s list under Raspberry Pi category for my project named “Smiley-Pi”. Very surprised that my previously discussed project in my blog turned out to be […]