An Imagination : My Autobiography - First Assignment Venture Lab

As the venture lab course of creativity was demanding to make cover page of your autobiography and write something about you. I have designed my autobiography cover this is what I want to be like and after some years I will live my dream and my autobiography cover would look like something this -

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And this is the logic and something about the cover story is as follows  :

Whom To Blame? is Autobiography of "Saurabh Heda".
He won and lost many battles in his life. As the first line of the cover page says author of Best seller science fiction, this line suggests that Saurabh has great passion towards science and he write books to express his fascinating imagination about science.

In this book Saurabh is trying to find out reasons behind his success and failures in his life.

Whom to blame for failure  and Whom to give credit for success. Various incidents in his life teach him various lessons. Some of the instances make author think that He is only lucky enough to get the success and Sometimes he think that why God punish him only. But finally he discovered that Hard Work is only the key to success.

Cover page last part indicates:
In the first phase of life saurabh think Am I procrastinator? In the second phase when he is youth and young he ask to himself Am I flirt? and In the final phase when He get all success he ask Am I hardworker? Still author is trying to discover answers to these questions in his autobiography.
Clicking on submit button will make you to go through the fascinating pages of his autobiography. :)

A crash course on Creativity : By Tina Seelig Venture Labs at Stanford

Joined this course on creativity by Tina Seelig . Course is offered by Stanford Technology Venture Labs.
 Course started from today i.e 22 April 2013 itself and looks very interesting that is why I thought that why not share my experience and my learning about this course on this blog.

First Assignment's problem statement is great and very creative. I appreciate beauty of the assignment and It enhanced a creative spark in me.

Assignment is to design a cover page for your Autobiography. Isn't it is interesting? 

Ideas are not cheap they are free.
If any of you are interested to take part in this course. Go and join this here. Let us join this course create teams, contribute and learn.

Will share my feedback and course content on my blog posts.

And till then Happy creative thinking..

ARM MPS system : Demo application

In this post I will cover ARM MPS system briefly. ARM MPS system in long Microcontroller Prototyping system from ARM pvt. ltd.

 From the name it is clear that this hardware development kit is used to prototype ARM micro controllers. What do we mean by prototyping is that we can make a full microcontroller with all the peripherals around it using FPGAs inside the system.

Software requirements:
1. MPS system CD come with the development kit.
2. HPE_DESK
3. Quartus
4. Keil MDK from ARM systems

There are two FPGA present in the ARM MPS system.

1. CPU FPGA
2. DUT FPGA

CPU FPGA is used to prototype processor. We do have encrypted images of arm cortex m0, m1, m3 and m4 with us  so what we do is to burn these images on the CPU FPGA using HPE_desk software.This is how we implement processor to our microcontroller.

DUT FPGA contain software image for all the peripherals that we require for our application. CPU and DUT FPGA two FPGAs are used in the system so that separating processor image from the peripheral image.
A  peripheral image can be made and can be compiled and ported to the DUT FPGA using Quartus.

Hence using this full system we can test 3rd party peripherals with required processor without licensing the processor. Hence can be used for the testing of the systems before actually making hardware.

Finally if system is ready we can execute demo application on our system using Keil MDK software. Keil MDK is used to compile and port the application code on the developed system. Here we can test our developed system by porting applications on it. We ported Blinky program and wrote text on the LCD of the MPS system.

We installed all the softwares on windows 7 platform but there are some issues which needs to be tackled while using Windows 7 otherwise if you use Windows XP then everything is working perfectly fine.  

This is just a brief introduction of MPS system otherwise it has enormous capability with it. OKay so explore yourself with the system.

Last but very important while I was executing this Demo on the system engineer from ARM Kishore Amarnath helped me to execute it on the system. All the conversation went on mobile and email. I am really grateful to him for his precious time that he helped me in sorting out the issues.

Minsterial Visit at IIT Jodhpur for the Foundation stone ceremony of permanent campus

There was ministerial visit scheduled at IIT Jodhpur for the foundation stone ceremony of the permanent campus and MHRD minister Pallam Raju was invited for laying the foundation stone at permanent campus of IIT Jodhpur. Rajasthan current CM Mr. Ashok Gehlot was also among the dignitaries to visit IIT Jodhpur permanent campus. But CM could not come because of some health issues as it is what they told us. Don't know whether it was health issue or IIT Jodhpur is not vote bank for him so he did not visit. Let us leave that I think he is not destined to see the glory of the great institution.

For your information presently IIT Jodhpur is running in MBM campus. Days before the visit preparations were started. Painting, Denting, and Proper Lab arrangements were done. Preparation were happening in the full swing. I was also preparing for the demonstration in our SoC lab. Lab coordinator told me to prepare some demo on development boards. I prepared Demo on ARM MPS system and EVALBOT.

Finally the time come and Pallam Raju came to our campus. He came to our lab for hardly 2 Minutes. Finally all the students went to permanent campus cite for witnessing foundation stone ceremony. Huge media was present and several eminent personality were present there to witness the ceremony. Among the dignitaries Pallam Raju, Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chandresh Kumari (MP from Jodhpur constituency) she is also cabinet minister, Dr. Patnayak from DRDO, only one woman chief guest she is secretary in HRD ministry some Sharma I forgot her name, Maharaja of Jodhpur Gaj Singh and obviously director of IIT Jodhpur Dr. P.K. Kalra with  all the faculty members were present there.

 A plantation drive was also conducted and finally foundation stone laid by Pallam Raju. Sweet was served to all the attendees. With the speeches of all dignitaries everything went fine. Special thing was that everyone gave their speech in our Mother Language "Hindi" and It was amazing to hear speech from Pallam Raju in Hindi :).  This is how we enjoyed our whole day (16 April, 2013). I don't know enjoyed or something else :)  but yeah from my inside I was happy that I am a part of the IIT group now, so what it is not old IIT. The thought was striking in my mind that, How it would be after some years when I will visit this unique campus and my chest went up in proud.