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Lab 7

The goal for Lab 7 was to perform 128-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption on hardware to send a plaintext message and key from the MCU to the FPGA accelerator…

Lab 6

For Lab 6, we used a WiFi development board and a temperature sensor to learn how to build a simple IoT device and implement SPI functionality.

Lab 5

For Lab 5, we were tasked with using interrupts to measure the speed of a motor from quadrature encoder readings. By reading quarature encoder pulses using the MCU, we can…

Lab 4

Lab 4 was our introduction to using our STM32 Microcontroller. We used the microcontroller to generate sqaure waves at specified frquencies by toggling a GPIO pin, which…

Lab 3

For Lab 3, we used an FPGA to scan inputs from a keypad and display outputs sequentially on a double 7-segment dispplay. There were lots of little caveats to the design that…

Lab 2

The goals of this lab were to set up a two seven segment display, however, the catch was that we used time multiplexing to efficiently use the I/O on the FPGA. So, using one…

Lab 1

The goals of this lab were to fully solder and set up our boards for the rest of the semester, and test that everything was working correctly. First, I soldered surface…