ICIAS

There was an IEEE conference in KL Convention Center organized by UTP. I had made my presentation on “Real-Time Reconfigurable Embedded System for Remote Monitoring and Controlling” around 2 p.m on Tuesday. I rushed to the conference at last minute from my office. Since a lot of presenters are come from hardware design background, so the questions from the audience were mainly to clarify their personal understanding. This paper is intended to propose a NMS system using soft core processor in FPGA with real-time capability. It is grouped under the VLSI and Embedded System category. I also attended the training on “Hardware Design Exploration for Embedded Computing Systems” conducted by Dr. Pramod Kumar Meher from NTU. It’s great to learn some tips and hints on the hardware design, such as pipelining, and etc.

For those who are interested in MicroBlaze processor, a new release version (v7) comes with MMU support, so it is possible to use Linux instead of uClinux.

Public Transport

I was asked to attend a training at Maju Junction Mall in Jalan Sultan Ismail for the last three days. Since the venue is located in center of Kuala Lumpur, I decided to take public transport instead of driving. I parked my car at the nearest Taman Jaya station and this cost me around RM3. Then, take the Putra LRT to KL Sentral cost me RM1.60. Huge crowd and you almost have to wait for 6 minutes. Lastly, I had to take KL Monorail to Media Tunku and this cost me RM2.50. So, the total cost for going to and back from my training is RM11.20. Too much….

But I really could not accept that such a short distance costs around RM2.50 for taking KL Monorail. Furthermore, it was a bad experience on the first day while the train stuck for almost 5 minutes just before it reached Media Tunku station. Yes, there was no complaint from passengers including me. This remembers me that once I almost missed my bus back to Penang when the KTM stuck at KL Sentral for almost 30 minutes. Pricing for petrol is going to raise next year after all our Ministers keep making noise that our government could not further subsidy. More and more peoples will start taking public transports. But “Suka-Suka”, it can simply delay your trips so who are going to trust our public transport?