Thank you for joining the SoC Labs community. We are excited for 2026 and have many exciting things planned for the year. We look forward to collaborating with you.

John.

Hi,

We are excited for 2026 and have many exciting things planned for the year. We look forward to continuing the collaboration with you this year. It would be great to get an update on the status of the project and how you are getting on with the initial 'Getting Started' milestone.

John.

Thanks for replying. We have made the project tracker in the project page to try and help guide people through their project. I am sorry that the original project just added a set of monthly basic milestones that don't seem to be as helpful as have milestones based on the steps of the design flow.

You can remove the ones that are of no use 

Simply click the remove button next to the old and not used milestones.

You have some good and completed milestones and these match workflow stages. There is a entry to have the title be one of the workflow stages. You can simply update them as follows. Select the Edit button next to the Milestone...

Your Milestone 1: Determine scope and focus; this matches the design flow stage "Getting Started".

If you wanted to you could change it as follows. If you start typing getting started, it autocompletes,  'get...' then select it.

One the change has been made then you need to click the update button.

Don't forget to save the whole project page at the end of the edit. You can save it to your drafts until you are happy and then save it to editorial.

I hope this is helpful.

John.

Hi,

Currently the Project Tracker in your project has no items underway or compelte.

Looking at your milestones this does not reflect the good progress you have made. Here is what I see...

Milestone #1: Determine scope and focus

This is like 'Getting Started' in Architectural Design.

Milestone #2: Determine the dataset and SNN model

This is like 'data model' in Architectural Design.

Milestone #3: Determine the requirement IPs

This is like 'IP Selection' in Architectural Design.

Milestone #4: Design SoC architecture

This is like 'Specifying a SoC' in Architectural Design.

Milestone #5: MATLAB simulation

This is fine, the system allows you to have your own named milestones if that is better for you to track things.

Milestone #7: IP verification with cocotb

This is like 'Verification Methodology' in Architectural Design.

If these milestones had their names changes to be milestones from the design flow stages then the tracker would look more like that of Sydney's project.

The good thing about the tracker is you can click on any of the links in the tracker and it allows you to see the design flow stage information and/or update your own milestone.

If you don't need a design flow step then simply uncheck the milestone.

I hope this helps.

John.

Hi,

Welcome to SoC Labs. We are excited for 2026 and have many exciting things planned for the year. 

If you could share some of your interest in SoC Design that would be helpful. We look forward to collaborating with you.

John.

Thank you for joining the SoC Labs community. 

We are excited for 2026 and have many exciting things planned for the year. We look forward to collaborating with you. If you could let us know what your are working on in terms of SoC design we would be happy to help where we can.

John.

Hi,

I am glad you managed to sign up to SoC Labs. Which academic institute are studying at? Please let us know this and also your interests.

We are excited for 2026 and have many exciting things planned for the year. We look forward to collaborating with you.

John.

Hi,

We are excited for 2026 and have many exciting things planned for the year. As I understand the project you are working through some Behavioural design using both simulation and trying to deploy to an FPGA environment. 

I think you have been working on the integration of the NanoSoC M0 reference design with your own custom accelerator. You have been using the example AES-128 project. You have been using the GCC compiler. We had not done enough verification on the core reference design with this compiler and an error was found and reported and Daniel has fixed this in the git repo so you could progress. The problems are causing some issues in the firmware that is supposed to run in the M0 controller to handle the data transfers to and from the custom accelerator. 

It looks to me that you are already working on the Simulation milestone but it is not listed in the Project Tracker.

It should be simple to add this, just click on the 'Simulation' link in the tracker. 

You can view the information on the design flow stage and update your milestone to say you have started this.

It would be great to keep the milestones updated so we can help as best we can.

John.

Hi,

I see you have a project description in your drafts. When you are ready to submit it to be published please save it to Editorial.

If there is anything more we can do to help please let us know.

John.

We are going to simplify the design flow section by moving the example flows material into the main flows using drop down expansions for tool and reference design specific material within each generic flow.

Eventually this will be deleted.