Hi Sean. progska is a c utility that we use to speed up the programming of the skarab boards and is not needed for the RP.
On Mon, 01 Jun 2020, 7:23 PM Sean Mckee, <semc8...@colorado.edu> wrote: > Hi Jack, > > I did try installing casperfpga on the red pitaya, but it appears that one > of the libraries (progska, if I recall correctly) requires 64-bit. It was > giving me ELFCLASS64 error. Not sure if there's a work around, but I'm > pretty comfortable writing C code to run on the red pitaya to manage the > registers, so that's the direction I've gone. > > Thanks! > Sean > > On Monday, June 1, 2020 at 3:59:13 AM UTC-6, Jack Hickish wrote: >> >> Hi Sean, >> >> Just to explicitly add to wes's advice - in addition to the telnet >> interface on localhost, you can "just" install full blown casperfpga to >> your red pitaya, and connect via localhost using the scripts you already >> have. Unless your performance requirements are such that python is out of >> the question, this is probably the easiest thing to do. >> >> Cheers >> Jack >> >> >> On Sun, 31 May 2020, 10:45 pm Sean Mckee, <semc...@colorado.edu> wrote: >> >>> Hi Wesley, >>> >>> Thank you, that's what I was looking for! >>> >>> On Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 12:54:31 PM UTC-6, wesley wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Sean, >>>> >>>> These are all good questions and Ill try to point you in the right >>>> direction. >>>> >>>> So if you followed this tutorial to setup your red pitaya: >>>> https://casper-toolflow.readthedocs.io/projects/tutorials/en/latest/tutorials/redpitaya/red_pitaya_setup.html#running-the-script-on-a-preloaded-rp-sd-card >>>> You should have tcpborphserver installed on the PS. You can telnet into >>>> tcpborphserver and issue register read and writes that way. ie you could >>>> telnet into tcpborphserver on localhost form the RP using a python script >>>> and run your tasks that way. If I remember correctly tcpboprhserver can >>>> address a register by name so you shouldnt need to worry about memory maps, >>>> but if you are you can look at the fpg file that you uploaded and the >>>> header will contain the memory map. You can also see the memory map in a >>>> file called coreinfo.tab in your build directory. >>>> >>>> Hope this helps. >>>> >>>> Wesley New >>>> South African SKA Project >>>> +2721 506 7300 >>>> www.ska.ac.za >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 7:56 PM Sean Mckee <semc...@colorado.edu> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I'm trying to determine how I would go about finding/using the >>>>> addresses of the memory mapped registers being used by the FPGA, from the >>>>> PS side of the Red Pitaya. For example, in the spectrometer tutorial, >>>>> there >>>>> are several registers used to control the design, and others to pull data >>>>> out from the design. If I access the Red Pitaya from my computer using the >>>>> casperfpga.py module, these registers are all conveniently named and the >>>>> python module has tools to read data from snap blocks, write to the reset >>>>> and trigger registers, etc. >>>>> >>>>> Is there a convenient way to have this same level of control on the >>>>> red pitaya itself? I would like to write code that runs on the PS to >>>>> monitor these registers and handle the data output. From what I can >>>>> currently find, I will need to open the /dev/mem file and use the mmap() >>>>> command. But how do I find out which physical register corresponds to >>>>> which >>>>> simulink block? And I assume that even a minor update to the simulink >>>>> design could result in the registers being moved around, so what is a good >>>>> way to account for this? >>>>> >>>>> Currently, I am trying to trace what happens when I call casperfpga >>>>> commands from my computer. I understand the parsing of the commands and >>>>> the >>>>> hand off to tcpborphserver, but I can't seem to unravel what is happening >>>>> when the red pitaya receives these commands. I'm assuming this code is >>>>> somewhere in the katcp library (https://github.com/ska-sa/katcp)? >>>>> >>>>> Hopefully someone knows of a good resource to fill in my knowledge >>>>> gaps. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> Sean >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "cas...@lists.berkeley.edu" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to cas...@lists.berkeley.edu. >>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/7fcb1398-42a3-45a0-8da5-1801f2274d71%40lists.berkeley.edu >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/7fcb1398-42a3-45a0-8da5-1801f2274d71%40lists.berkeley.edu?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "cas...@lists.berkeley.edu" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to cas...@lists.berkeley.edu. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/c4f0d757-d3ca-431f-b1de-f27392f68b3f%40lists.berkeley.edu >>> <https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/c4f0d757-d3ca-431f-b1de-f27392f68b3f%40lists.berkeley.edu?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/4246c7dd-1f25-46ab-8269-180a92c0a07f%40lists.berkeley.edu > <https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/4246c7dd-1f25-46ab-8269-180a92c0a07f%40lists.berkeley.edu?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. 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