Sundance Software Design Radio

The 4 MIMO board without its casing

Kisah training selama 2 hari.

Aaaaaaaaa. tak sukanya pegi training yang ni. sebab apa? sebab it consist of C++ programming. ambikkkkkkkkkk. benda yang paling di benci dalam hidup. tapi masa study dulu tak suka C programming, sebab kami tak belajar C++. what the heck, similar la tu C++ ngan C. beza tang cara nak tulis coding sikit2 je.

Ok. About the training.

The training is on Sundance DSP n FPGA Software Design Radio board. complicated gila. We purchase 2 type of boards, standard board which will be used for Undergraduate teaching lab and 4 MIMO board which cater for research.Haa, apa lagi. sesapa yang involve in research and you need to utilise this kind of board, you can come to IIUM, but you need to pay some fees la. err.. we have another board which carry different brand you know. I'll tell you about it later. Now lets concentrate on Sundance board.

To program the DSP, you can either use Code Composer or Sundance software which work much better in programming their board. Its called Diamond. According to them, Diamond capable to handle multi-processor boards, it can do debugging for multi-processor. Using this software, we can create a lot of task within one project. Nak senang cerita. Kalau 1 project tu besar gila, kita boleh assign different engineer for each task. Yang complicated masa awal2 cuma nak get used to linking these tasks together. kena tambah dalam 2-3 line of coding je dalam C++ tu.

JEEEE? ehehehehhe. cam terer je. padahal time org tu mengajar, satu2 line dia kena explain the flow of program. huhuhu. malu gila! dah la org tu is Managing Director company tu. Kalau nak kenen2 mintak keje dengan company dia (in future la, macam la kita nak pon sebab tak suka programming nih), for sure awal2 lagi dia reject. ha ha ha.

Masa awal2 en. pengajar tu cakap software tu kena program pakai C++. jam tu jugak rasa nak pitam la, nak muntah la. macam2 perasaan ada. 8 tahun wooooooooo tinggal terus bende alah ni. Then during training dia mula bercerita on STACK, THREADS, SEMAPHORES, VOLATILE. I was like whaaaaaaaaaat? jam jam tu jugak nak muntah darah. The only thing i can remember is printf, muahahahaha. pastu ingat la jugak word ARRAY, tapi nak buat tak tau :D.

2nd day ok sikit. sebab the training focused more on the hardware part. aaaa, yang tu interesting la.

Hari ni ada lagi sikit2 nak kena settle on software installation for all PCs in the lab. banyak keje nih. dah 2 hari tak buat apa sebab training punya pasal.