Month 1 - Blog 2 - Gateware Development

 The past two weeks have been hectic to say the least. Being filled with development and preparing for my presentation, my nerves were definitely on the line. Since my ongoing task was to create samples for the new GSamples repository, I added some more tasks for samples expanding on the following Gateware modules:
- GMatrix
- GVector
- GQuaternion
- GDaemon
- GThreadShared
- GConcurrent

So far most of theses samples have been merged into the main GSamples repository which is very exciting. They didn't come with the fun hiccups of learning more about CMake, like with GAudio and GBufferedInput, but did offer more learning into how threading and concurrency work. 

Developing GDaemon's sample created an interesting point about the documentation provided in the Gateware Doxygen resource. My assumption was to make a daemon, then add event responders to the daemon. This ended up not being the intended functionality and needed to be swapped out for something more focused on GDaemon itself. Swapping to demonstrate the Fibonacci Sequence using a daemon seemed more suitable, so one daemon was used to run iterations of the sequence while another toggled the sequence daemon on and off. Both of these daemons had event responders to print out the status of the daemons, while also running at specific intervals.

The rest of the samples went smoothly, with little to no issues arising. This helped the fact that I had to work on my GNodeFactory Proposal Presentation. This was a requirement of the CSMS degree in which I had to get the project approved by the Committee members. The past week I worked with Lari to present my materials to the Gateware Maintainers, which was insightful. They provided a ton of feedback which I tried to incorporate as best I could into the upcoming presentation. After the meeting with Lari and the maintainers, I had my meeting with the Committee. They really liked the project and were interested in a ton of the unit testing and research ideology. Overall I think the past two weeks have been really fun, not only for my confidence, but for learning more with modern systems.