Thursday, April 30, 2009

We are somewhat re-thinking our hardware design so as to not take up as many wires. We've been running the N=6 and N=7 puzzles to no avail, so that is also a problem.

More updates later.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Eventful Friday, Apr 24th

We didn't quite get to run the N=11 puzzle (since we didn't find one). I found a puzzle with N=10, but we haven't parsed the file yet.

We were instead trying to figure out the necessary memory components. In doing so, we successfully ran the existing software-only version completely from on-chip memory, for N=3.

On Monday, we plan to work more with the memory components, now that the SRAM tutorial is up. I am also hoping we get to drawing a more detailed block diagram for the hardware components, taking our lessons from EEC 183.

Midterms are coming up though...:(

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

First post!

A rough outline of our design plan can be found here.

1st post! At this point, we have our software implementation up and running. We plan to test an N=11 puzzle on Friday.