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Sigve Sebastian Farstad edited this page Nov 13, 2013 · 25 revisions

20131113

Woops, forgot to log the last few days. Done a bunch of reporting.

We've made a fake com thing in VHDL and put it on the FPGA.

FPGA/SCU-bus: chip enable is not mapped, woops. We need to monkey-patch this with a wire.

FPGA.BUS15 is loadless, it might need to be resoldered.

FPGA.ADDR0 is loadless, it might need to be resoldered.

FPGA.ADDR1 is loadless, it might need to be resoldered.

FPGA.ADDR2 is loadless, it might need to be resoldered.

FPGA.ADDR4 is loadless, it might need to be resoldered.

FPGA.ADDR5 is loadless, it might need to be resoldered.

FPGA.ADDR7 is loadless, it might need to be resoldered.

FPGA.ADDR9 is loadless, it might need to be resoldered.

BOARD 2

NB: Top pin of FPGA B above JTAG is ground

Header 83 is not on any header Chip enable is not conected

Working headers:

  • Addresses work
  • Data work
  • States
  • Proc Enable, Write Enable, LBUB
  • All but 25,26,27,29

20131109

Start 0400. More report writing. The report is almost 100 pages long now. I'm not stopping until 100 pages is reached. 1149: 100 pages reached! I totally added a \newline to get that last page.

20131106

Did some more report writing somewhere between 2am and 10am.

#20131105

Start working at lab at 14. Working on report. Wrote some introduction stuff. End 1805.

20131023

Started working in the lab with Bjørn 1800. Going to work on the fitness core.

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Yup, I'm going to start logging meticulously. I'm going to keep it all on this single page.

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20131015

Started logging. Going to backlog, so to speak, i.e. write log for previous days. That means that logs that are before this date were not written at that time, but rather today!

Worked on the galapagos-assembler, updating to match new spec.

20131009

Updated the .vim syntax highlighter to accomodate for the new changes in the isa. Specifically: conditions. Also added support for multi-line comments. Worked on the galapagos-assembler, updating it to work on new spec, also multiline comments.

20130924

Cleaned up VHDL, removed lame header comments, fixed up the PRNG module. Worked on the assembler.

20130922

Wrote .vim syntax highlighter for the galapagos assembly. Worked more on galapagos-assember.

20130921

Wrote galapagos-assember.

20130919

Wrote a PRNG test program in C to test fast random algorithms to see if they are suitable for our purposes. The test uses dieharder. The random algo as it is now is quite fast, but is not that great in terms of randomness. If we throw away some of the bits generated, it will become much better, according to the tests.

20130918

Tidying and clerical work in the report.

20130917

Improved tooling in the report repo.

20130924

Work on the ISA documentation.

20130919

Work on the ISA documentation.

20130917

Work on the ISA documentation.

20130914

Did lots of work on the ISA documentation.

20130913

Did lots of work on the ISA documentation.

20130912

Started working on the ISA documentation.

20130910

Implemented a continuous GA simulation in python to see if continuous GA is usable. As it turns out, it is arguably better.

20130909

Discussion with FPGA group in Bjørn's office about the genetics pipeline architecture, and specifically, how to implement the specimen memory banks. The idea of continuous GA cropped up, but we need to do a test to verify if it actually works.

20130830

Put a minimal report shell on github, added some latex tips and instructions.

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