BeagleBoard/GSoC/2021 Proposal/OmkarBhilare
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Proposal for Beaglewire Software Support
About
Student: Omkar Bhilare
Mentors: Michael Welling
Code: gsoc-application
Wiki: https://elinux.org/BeagleBoard/GSoC/2021_Proposal/OmkarBhilare
GSoC: GSoC entry
Status
This project is currently just a proposal.
Proposal
Completed All the requirements listed on the ideas page.
The PR request for cross-compilation task: #154.
About you
IRC: Omkar Bhilare
Github: ombhilare999
School: Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute
Country: India
Primary language : English, Hindi, Marathi
Typical work hours: 10AM-8PM Indian Standard Time
Previous GSoC participation: This is my first time applying for GSoC, I'm an Electronics enthusiast and have a great interest in fields like FPGA, Digital VLSI, Computer Architecture. I have experienced with Intel's Quartus, Xilinx's vivado, and opensource toolchains for ice40. I have also experience with Cyclone2, Upduino3.0(ICE40), Sipeed Tang Primer FPGA.
About your project
Project name: Beaglewire Software Support
Description
- Introduction
The BeagleWire is an FPGA development platform that has been designed for use with BeagleBone boards. BeagleWire is a cape on which there is an FPGA device - Lattice iCE40HX. The software support for BeagleWire is still in the development phase. In this project, I'm developing and testing the existing software support of Beaglewire. The known primary issue in Beaglewire is the interface between 32MB SDRAM and ICE40HX4K. For this Solution, I'm going to try LiteDRAM(a small footprint and configurable DRAM core).
- Why LiteDRAM for SDRAM Control
The Core produced by LiteDRAM is
1. Fully pipelined, high performance.
2. Configurable commands depth on bankmachines.
3. Auto-Precharge.
4. Periodic refresh/ZQ short calibration (up to 8 postponed refreshes).
- LiteDRAM is already used in commercial and open-source designs
- Testing of I2C, SPI, PWM, UART
There are two grove Connectors on BeagleWire for I2C, I will test the current Verilog Code of I2C in hardware and will find out whether there is improvement requirement in I2C or not.
I will also test Subsystems like PWM, UART in actual hardware, if found not working will correct the subsystems and provide appropriate examples codes for them.
Timeline
Provide a development timeline with a milestone each of the 11 weeks and any pre-work. (A realistic timeline is critical to our selection process.)
| Mar 30 | Proposal complete, Submitted to https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com |
| Apr 27 | Proposal accepted or rejected |
| May 18 | Pre-work complete, Coding officially begins! |
| May 25 | Milestone #1, Introductory YouTube video |
| June 1 | Milestone #2 |
| June 8 | Milestone #3 |
| June 15 18:00 UTC | Milestone #4, Mentors and students can begin submitting Phase 1 evaluations |
| June 19 18:00 UTC | Phase 1 Evaluation deadline |
| June 22 | Milestone #5 |
| June 29 | Milestone #6 |
| July 6 | Milestone #7 |
| July 13 18:00 UTC | Milestone #8, Mentors and students can begin submitting Phase 2 evaluations |
| July 17 18:00 UTC | Phase 2 Evaluation deadline |
| July 20 | Milestone #9 |
| July 27 | Milestone #10 |
| August 3 | Milestone #11, Completion YouTube video |
| August 10 - 17 18:00 UTC | Final week: Students submit their final work product and their final mentor evaluation |
| August 17 - 24 18:00 UTC | Mentors submit final student evaluations |
Experience and approach
In 5-15 sentences, convince us you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described.
Contingency
What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn’t around?
Benefit
If successfully completed, what will its impact be on the BeagleBoard.org community? Include quotes from BeagleBoard.org community members who can be found on http://beagleboard.org/discuss and http://bbb.io/gsocchat.
Misc
Please complete the requirements listed on the ideas page. Provide link to pull request.
Suggestions
Is there anything else we should have asked you?
