Calvin’s Design Notebook

Week of February 15th

Caught up on requirements and updates from the team meeting as I’m unable to make Wednesday meetings
Read through both Design and Construction of RTL Toolchains at NYU and NYU Processor Design Team SoC CPU Core
Created documents for a second read through to take notes on (I typically like to read an entire passage first and then take notes after)
Will plan for this upcoming design notebook to take notes on documents and share them

Week of February 22nd

Caught up on requirements and updates from the team meeting as I’m unable to make Wednesday meetings
Picked AMBA for subteam
Further read through both Design and Construction of RTL Toolchains and took notes in this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KfOCx0H9lvMqLuhRSeh2-Q4Sw9yXmL0cAtMuKTd9QOg/edit?usp=sharing (will update the doc with notes from CPU Core doc when I do another read through of that)

Week of March 14th

Finished taking notes of both Design and Construction of RTL Toolchains and CPU Core https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KfOCx0H9lvMqLuhRSeh2-Q4Sw9yXmL0cAtMuKTd9QOg/edit?usp=sharing

Weeks of 22nd-April 12

Didn’t work on any VIP work

Week of April 19th

Began researching possibilities for the final project presentation. Settled on some final options

Week of April 26th

Decided on an FPU for the final presentation and talked with team members about allocating work
Researched further on floating point concepts/arithmetic and FPU architecture

Week of May 3rd

Finished work on FPU RTL synthesis via outline that a team member made: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fe0zM2X44JjO3LfwGvSj-Sv0m1_lQz8VhfClWT8eGCQ/edit?tab=t.0
Final presentation link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/185G4T1229Mob6CZ69Tuf0_nEJ2UAmArtEL87Fmw88MA/edit?slide=id.g39a4bb612f8_0_5902#slide=id.g39a4bb612f8_0_5902
Gave final presentation on May 2nd
Updated design notebooks for missing weeks