This week, Gator Waves continued to make steady progress on the project. The electrical engineers focused on the control system FPGA code and testing. This involved determining the VHDL implementation for the transfer function that will generate the necessary outputs for the current driver. It also included continuing work on the SPI module, with adjustments made for it to run at 50 MHz. Further developments still need to be made to the SPI module regarding the clock signal output to the DAC, and next week focus will also be placed on writing an Avalon memory mapped interface to request data from the flash memory in the FPGA.

The mechanical engineers worked on designing and developing the electrical bay and mounting system for the PCB, which will need to be implemented in the final iteration of the prototype. The middle solenoid design was sent to be 3D printed, and it will be wound and tested next week. Also, next week the mechanical engineers plan to water jet aluminum rods from the base plate and machine the solenoid base as well.