May10-01 Weekly Report 09-21-09
Team Members
Team Leader: Ashley Good
Communication Coordinator: Tim Meyer
Web Design: Matt Saladin
System Architect: David Graziano
Faculty Advisors: Joe Zambreno & Philip Jones
Team Member
Ashley Good
David Graziano
Tim Meyer
Matt Saladin
Weekly Hourly Total
3
3
3
3
Weekly Tasks
Assignments:
Assigned research on four main areas of the NES.
Create slides for presentation on each of the four components for review.
Create PowerPoint for the in class presentation about the project.
Create the class web page and post presentation slides and weekly reports.
Running Hourly Total
7
7
7
7
Progress
Identified four main areas of interest: CPU, PPU, Data/Control Bus, I/O functionality for in-depth research.
Assigned a team system architect to ensure that the components will be able to function together properly if the project is broken into several different parts.
Located an assembler that will take the assembly code and turn it into a usable ROM file for testing.
Found an emulator that provides detailed real-time memory information to be used to aid in testing and debugging stages.
Goals
Extensive research into the four main areas of interest to understand their functionality.
Each area of interest must be able to understand its connections to the overall system.
Prepare presentation for slide show in class

Meetings
September 16, 2009
Location: Coover
Attendance: All team members
Agenda: Research on main components
Create basic system block diagrams in PowerPoint
September 17, 2009
Location: Durham
Attendance: All team members, Philip Jones
Time: 12:30-1:30pm
Agenda: Overview NES components and review individual parts for further research
Assign an individual to a system architect role to ensure components can be connected together successfully.
Review necessary assembler and other programs to aid in project design.