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Patrick J. McGee

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Personal Information
Incoming Junior \| Computer Science Major at Marquette
Working with Dr. Dennis Brylow on the concept of Embedded Systems (Upgrading Embedded Xinu for the Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 3)
Upsilon Pi Epsilon member
ACM At-Large Member
President of Best Buddies Marquette Chapter

Week 1: May 30-June 2
Began attempts to boot the full version of Embedded Xinu kernel with Raspberry Pi 3
Researched a Linaro Cross-Compiler to use for its Cortex A-53 ARM processor with ARMv8 architecture
Drew diagrams of the boot sequence and compilation for better understanding of the Pi 3's mechanisms
Traced through the dynamics of written Assembly code in the full research version of Xinu
Week 2: June 5-9
Tested the LED program in updated Assembly code. Began testing the Serial Port Transceiver driver for the Pi 3
Read about Raspberry Pi bare metal programming via online sources
Read about how the Raspberry Pi 3 controls the frequency of its UART pins
Read ARM processor documentation about configuring UART clock frequency
Used the oscilloscope in attempt to obtain the clock frequency of the UART pin