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b) Chapter 11: Details on personality structure.
b) Chapter 11: Details on personality structure.


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Revision as of 20:59, 30 January 2012

Team Members

  • Chad Nelson - cnel711
  • Mihir Awatramani - mihir
  • Mengduo Ma -
  • Kuan-Hsing Ho -

Connecting to the Convey HC-1 Machine

  1. Download and install NX Client.
  2. Connect to convey-1.ece.iastate.edu using your ISU NetID and the password netid@123.
  3. Change your password by opening a terminal window and running the passwd command.

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Once you log into the convey machine a few documents you will want to start looking through are bellow. Note, there is a lot of detail to learn about the Convey system. I would first suggest boweing through the document below to get a feel for the type of information they contain. I’ve try to highlight some of the sections that will be useful to you and you are getting up to speed with the example application.

1) /opt/convey/pdk/2010_08_09/doc/ConveyPDKReferenceManual.pdf

This document gives information about how to go about developing your own HW/SW designs on the convey system.

a) Start with section 10.5 to quickly start playing with the system. Then use the rest of Section 10 to help you understand the example C code.

b) You will need to read through of other sections of this document to understand how the overall system works.


2) /opt/convey/doc/ConveyProgrammersGuide.pdf

a) Sections 8.1 and 8.2 gives more details on how to run an application (in SW, Simulation, or Hardware) b) Section 10.2, give more details on the assembly portions of the sample application from the PDK manual. c) Chapter 1 and 2 give overview info d) Chapter 12 talks about Environmental flags e) Chapter 14 talks about the Personality naming conventions.

3) /opt/convey/doc/ConveyReferenceManual.pdf a) Chapters 1 and 2: Basic Overview b) Chapter 11: Details on personality structure.

Convey PDK (.pdf)