[casper] CASPERFPGA and the Great Merge

2022-05-31 Thread Wesley New
to the list. Thanks for all the continued development and collaboration. Regards Wesley New SARAO -- 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, sen

Re: [casper] Different Software Versions

2022-02-21 Thread Wesley New
Hi Kaj, There is generally a requirements.txt in the root of the mlib_devel which should list any python dependencies and appropriate versions. I am not sure how well this is kept uptodate though. Regards Wes On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 1:24 PM Kaj Wiik wrote: > Hi Adam, > > I am sorry but I

Re: [casper] Skarab programming error "Skarab has not come back after programming"

2022-01-10 Thread Wesley New
Hi June, Over what ethernet interface are you connecting to the SKARAB? 1GbE or 40GbE. IIRC the boot firmware comes with both a 1gbe and 1 of the 40gbe interfaces built in. The designs you mention would only have the 1 or more 40gbe ethernet interfaces included. You would see the symptoms you are

Re: [casper] Red Pitaya STEMlab 125-14-Z7020

2021-08-02 Thread Wesley New
Hi Mutsuo, There was a small team that added support for the first 2 red pitaya boards to be used as cheap tutorial hardware for evaluation of the CASPER tools. The nature of CASPER is one of open-source and collaboration. Unfortunately many of us won't have the time to focus on making a port for

Re: [casper] Compiling for roach2 on RHEL7

2020-06-30 Thread Wesley New
As someone who has tried plenty of combinations of Matlab, Xilinx and OS versions over the years with varying success. I would recommend installing a VM with the supported versions. If you are keen to maximize compile resources try using lxc or chroot. Good luck. On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, 10:55 PM

Re: [casper] Red Pitaya access registers of snap blocks from PS

2020-06-01 Thread Wesley New
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

Re: [casper] Red Pitaya access registers of snap blocks from PS

2020-05-31 Thread Wesley New
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

Re: [casper] Red Pitaya - what operating system

2020-01-16 Thread Wesley New
. Regards Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 9:42 AM David Mc Carthy wrote: > Thanks. > On 1/14/20 11:25 PM, Adam Isaacson wrote: > > Hi David, > > This will also help you setup your sd card on the red pitaya

Re: [casper] Roach 2 FPGA

2019-12-12 Thread Wesley New
Please use the supported version as listed here in the documentation otherwise it is really hard to support. https://casper-toolflow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/Installing-the-Toolflow.html Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 4:46 AM

Re: [casper] jasper not working properly after upgrade

2019-11-19 Thread Wesley New
Hi Nitish This is a python 2/3 issue. The toolflow has been upgraded to use python 3. Most people are running it in a virtual environment and install the requirements.txt in the root of mlib_devel. Assuming you are using the latest version of mlib_devel in casper-astro. Hope this helps. Regards

[casper] Re: BSP request from INAF

2019-03-07 Thread Wesley New
n that can be opened in Vivado and perused at ones leisure. Please let me know if there are any other questions. Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 12:06 PM Alex Bassios wrote: > Hi Adam/Jason/Wesley > > > > Andrea Melis from

Re: [casper] Raspberry pi 3 b+ support for SNAP board

2018-08-29 Thread Wesley New
and check if it mounts correctly and the boot partition is there. Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:21 PM, Nivek Ghazi wrote: > Hey Casper people, > > So, I recently got a raspberry pi 3 b+ and looking to get it working > w

Re: [casper] Configuring 40GbE Yellow Block in JASPER

2017-07-06 Thread Wesley New
to add the functionality and we will support you as best we can. Regards Wesley Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Clifford van Dyk <cliffordvan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mark (and Wes) > > For clarity (and at ri

Re: [casper] Configuring 40GbE Yellow Block in JASPER

2017-07-06 Thread Wesley New
can pull up some test model files where we send and receive data between 2 networked SKARABs. With functionality to configure data rates and packet sizes etc. Regards Wes Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Peryer, Mark

Re: [casper] Uploading Jasper .fpg Files to SKARAB

2017-06-22 Thread Wesley New
/usr/local/bin/glnxa64/MATLAB’: No such file or directory Ill update the documentation accordingly. Regards Wes Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Peryer, Mark A. < mark.per...@cfa.harvard.edu> wrote: > Hi Wesley, &

Re: [casper] Uploading Jasper .fpg Files to SKARAB

2017-06-21 Thread Wesley New
Hi Mark, The jasper_vivado_2016_2 is an older branch that has now been merged into Master. There are a lot of changes that have happened subsequent to that in master. So please use Master to rebuild the fpg file and try to program again. Ill remove that old branch shortly. Regards Wes Wesley

Re: [casper] Unable to Load Firmware Image onto SKARAB

2017-06-14 Thread Wesley New
= casperfpga.CasperFpga(SKARAB_IP) skarab.upload_to_ram_and_program(SKARAB_FPG) Does the board come back after waiting some time? Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Peryer, Mark A. < mark.per...@cfa.harvard.edu> wrote: > Hello,

Re: [casper] DDR Size on Roach2 rev2

2017-04-13 Thread Wesley New
Hi Adam, This probably wouldn't work off-the-bat. You would need to make changes to the controller. If you need to read the data back via the PPC, then you would need to expand this interface as last time I checked it only supported 2GB of the DIMM. Regards Wesley Wesley New South African SKA

Re: [casper] Re: Can't open tut3

2017-03-27 Thread Wesley New
Hi Claudio, 2012b does not support the newer slx file format. Try using an older version of the tutorials with an mdl file. You can try the mdl files from this commit: https://github.com/casper-astro/tutorials_devel/tree/c195b501f67c4f2a4f051f258453e0751f9825fa/tut3 Wesley New South African SKA

Re: [casper] ADC Question of Roach2

2016-10-18 Thread Wesley New
imilar to tut3.py to control the design and to read the snap block over the network, as well as plot your data. Regards Wes Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Heystek Grobler <heystekgrob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Wes

Re: [casper] XST options

2016-07-08 Thread Wesley New
Hi Gunter, Also take a look at xps_base/XPS_ROACH2_base/system.xmp There is an option for ShiftReg. I have not played with it myself, but it might be what you are looking for. Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:49 PM, David MacMahon

Re: [casper] ddr3 cpu interface for roach2

2016-06-15 Thread Wesley New
Hi Mike, This one got me a while back. I think you need to change the style option in your mpd file to hdl. See page 47 of this document. http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/edk10_psf_rm.pdf Regards Wesley Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za

Re: [casper] ddr3 cpu interface for roach2

2016-04-07 Thread Wesley New
pcores, you would just have to change the bus widths and the memory mapping. Hope this puts you on the right path. Regards Wesley Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Mike Movius <mi...@reutech.co.za> wrote: > > Hi A

Re: [casper] Complier problem - tut 1

2016-04-06 Thread Wesley New
to not give this error for your version by editing this file <https://github.com/ska-sa/mlib_devel/blob/master/xps_library/casper_xps.m>and between lines 56 and 80. Regards Wesley Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Louise Forbe

Re: [casper] CASPER installation problems CRM:0028623

2016-04-06 Thread Wesley New
edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14.x_and_Matlab_2012b> . Also please cc the casper mailing list on any questions as they will be of use to others in the community. casper@lists.berkeley.edu You will need to subscribe before being able to send to the list. Regards Wesley Wesley New South Afric

Re: [casper] Sysgen compilation error

2016-02-11 Thread Wesley New
: The syntax in the Xilinx Perl scripts is not supported under the Ubuntu default shell Dash. Change the symbolic link sh -> dash to sh -> bash: - cd /bin/ - sudo rm sh - sudo ln -s bash sh Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12

Re: [casper] Multicast on 10 gbe on ROACH-2?

2015-11-05 Thread Wesley New
Marc is correct. The ARP table is not involved in multicast. The multicast MAC is just mapped from the multicast IP. Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Marc Welz <m...@ska.ac.za> wrote: > David MacMhaon wrote: >

Re: [casper] Roach2 aux clocking and Bram's

2015-08-05 Thread Wesley New
on this repository between 100MHz and 200MHz. Thanks Wes Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:41 PM, David MacMahon dav...@astro.berkeley.edu wrote: Hi, Vereese, That's a very curious failure mode! It's very interesting that everything

Re: [casper] constraints for qdr2/ROACH2

2015-05-28 Thread Wesley New
repository. Regards Wesley Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Homin Jiang ho...@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw wrote: Dear All: Recently i found out the locations I/O pins for qdr2/ROACH2 are not in the same FPGA area.(from the Planahead

Re: [casper] QDR ROACH2: clocking at 145 MHz

2015-05-25 Thread Wesley New
of changes. One being that shifting the clock by 180 degrees so that the calibration range shifted by half a clock cycle and this helped with getting it to calibrate at 300+MHz. I would assume you would need to do the same but in the opposite direction. Wes Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506

Re: [casper] ROACH-2 MSSGE 14.2 toolflow compilation takes too long time.

2015-04-13 Thread Wesley New
I would also suggest upgrading to 14.7, it is a pretty straight forward upgrade. Just install 14.7 and point your startsg script to the correct installation directory. Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Chaudhari Sandeep C. s

Re: [casper] ROACH2 MKID Block and DDR3 DRAM

2015-03-05 Thread Wesley New
/casper-astro/mlib_devel/blob/master/xps_base/XPS_ROACH2_base/pcores/mkadc_interface_v1_00_a/hdl/vhdl/adc5g_dmux1_interface.vhd For more info on the MMCM see the Xilinx Clocking Resource users guide. Regards Wesley Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7300 www.ska.ac.za On Fri, Mar 6

Re: [casper] Error with mmcm

2015-02-12 Thread Wesley New
will need to have a look as the scripts that calculate and set the Multiply and Divide parameters on the VCO. Regards Wes Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Nishanth Shivashankaran nshiv...@asu.edu wrote: Hi All, I am

Re: [casper] Content Addressable Memory

2015-02-06 Thread Wesley New
Hi Kris, Can you elaborate on your question? Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Kristian Zarb Adami kris...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, has anyone implemented/know of an implementation of CAM inside the Casper consortium

Re: [casper] software register

2014-11-07 Thread Wesley New
Can you elaborate on these errors? A while ago the software registers were updated so you might have to replace all of the software registers in you your design with the new on from the library. Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:55 AM

Re: [casper] License troubles

2014-09-12 Thread Wesley New
Try this: source /opt/xilinx/14.3/ISE_DS/settings64.sh then run the Xilinx Licence Config Manager xlcm From here you can choose your license file. Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Andrea Giachero andrea.giach

Re: [casper] License troubles

2014-09-12 Thread Wesley New
You should go to the 2nd tab Manage Licenses and the click on the Load license button. This will tell you if the license is up to date and what features it supports. Hope this helps. Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Andrea

Re: [casper] QDR vs DDR3 for new board

2014-08-24 Thread Wesley New
Aspw On 21 Aug 2014 23:19, Matt Strader mstra...@physics.ucsb.edu wrote: Hi Casperites, We (UCSB and Fermilab) are currently designing a new DAC/ADC board (12bits x 2.0 Gsps ADC, 14bits x 2.5 Gsps DAC) to interface with the ROACH2 for readout of future, larger MKID instruments. The DAC/ADC

Re: [casper] about Roach2 tutorials

2014-08-17 Thread Wesley New
Wes Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Wang Jinqing jqw...@shao.ac.cn wrote: Hi, I have started the Roach2 board with very simple counters .It seems goes well. Now I want to use the Tutorial 3: Wideband Spectrometer

Re: [casper] Send data to more than one IP address / tap_multicast function

2014-06-30 Thread Wesley New
Hi Pablo, Multicast is only supported on ROACH2 and you will need to make sure that your power pc is running the latest firmware. Wes Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Pablo Vasquez pvasq...@das.uchile.cl wrote: Hi All

Re: [casper] Error while compiling the mixer Casper DSP block

2014-05-29 Thread Wesley New
Are all the boxes ticked in your casper_xps window? Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 7:29 AM, John Ford jf...@nrao.edu wrote: This can happen if your model is named using upper and lower case letters. What's your model name? John

Re: [casper] ISE 14.7 in ubuntu 12.04

2014-05-13 Thread Wesley New
chmod +x xsetup On 13 May 2014 06:00, Rolando Paz flx...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry Jack, the problem is attached :-) It is a permissions problem :-) what should I do? Rolando Paz 2014-05-12 21:41 GMT-06:00 Jack Hickish jackhick...@gmail.com: when you say it doesn't do anything...? It

Re: [casper] 10GB Ethernet

2014-02-10 Thread Wesley New
Here are links to the 2 cores that we use. https://github.com/ska-sa/mlib_devel/tree/master/xps_base/XPS_ROACH2_base/pcores/kat_ten_gb_eth_v1_00_a https://github.com/ska-sa/mlib_devel/tree/master/xps_base/XPS_ROACH2_base/pcores/ten_gb_eth_v3_00_a Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506

Re: [casper] Aurora Yellow Block

2014-02-06 Thread Wesley New
Hi Norbert Maybe share your gen_mhs.py file so that we can see the code that you are trying to run. Wes Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Norbert Bonnici norbert.bonnici...@um.edu.mt wrote: Dear CASPERites, I'm currently

Re: [casper] CASPER ISE 14.5 tool chain configuration problem

2014-01-13 Thread Wesley New
Thanks Nie, Ill add this to the https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14_and_Matlab_2012bpage What OS are you using? Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Nie Jun nie...@xao.ac.cn wrote: Hi guys, I

Re: [casper] chipScope on the roach2

2013-11-20 Thread Wesley New
Hi David yes the ftdi chip hogs the bus. Ill send you a script to release the jtag when I get into the office. Regards Wes On 20 Nov 2013 21:53, DAVID SAROFF (RIT Student) dps7...@rit.edu wrote: Does anyone have experience using chipScope with Platform Cable USB II on roach2? I know it is not

Re: [casper] chipScope on the roach2

2013-11-20 Thread Wesley New
You can run this script https://github.com/ska-sa/roach2_support_software/blob/master/ftdi/scripts/release_jtag_port.py You will need python and the ftdi libraries. Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Wesley New wes...@ska.ac.za

Re: [casper] Error Xilinx Block / ISE 10.1

2013-10-25 Thread Wesley New
Hi Rolando, What repository are you using? Assuming that you are targeting an ibob, mlib_devel has a tag for last support of the ibob and bee2. Are you using this? Wes Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Rolando Paz flx

Re: [casper] Random failures on Compile

2013-10-22 Thread Wesley New
Hi Guys I have never experienced this. Can you provide the versions of the tool and OS you are running? Wes On 22 Oct 2013 20:51, Ryan Monroe ryan.m.mon...@gmail.com wrote: I've also experienced these. The most common cause seems to be a constant which is not sampled. I don't have a good

Re: [casper] Report of experience with KatADC

2013-10-01 Thread Wesley New
Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Jack Hickish jackhick...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We were using 14.3 at the JBO workshop a few weeks ago -- partly because of cautionary tales I heard about 14.4, and partly because

Re: [casper] casper libraries- casper_xps in new mlib_devel?

2013-08-19 Thread Wesley New
So bee_xps has been changed to casper_xps and the casper mlib_devel will reflect that when we update it for this years tutorials for the the CASPER workshop. If you are using the old libraries, just run bee_xps otherwise use run casper_xps Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365

Re: [casper] Setting up CASPER tools on a Windows machine

2013-08-19 Thread Wesley New
Hi Joe, That error should actually be a warning. It doesnt stop you from compiling designs. There is something else not right with your setup. Have a look at the startsg script in the root of the mlib_devel directory and check that you are setting all those environment variables correctly.

Re: [casper] casper libraries

2013-08-17 Thread Wesley New
Thanks Timothy, I have updated that wiki page. Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:40 PM, John Ford jf...@nrao.edu wrote: Folks It seems that the libraries listed on https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Repositories are all

Re: [casper] DRAM (DDR3) ROACH-2

2013-07-25 Thread Wesley New
to slow. The best way is to packetize the data and sent it over either 10Gig or 1Gig ethernet to a server for storage or further software/GPU processing. Hope this helps. Regards Wesley Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:35 PM, David

Re: [casper] DRAM (DDR3) ROACH-2

2013-07-24 Thread Wesley New
This is great work JP. Out of interest is anyone else planning to use the DDR3 on ROACH2? Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Juan-Pierre Jansen van Rensburg jvrensburg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I have been working

Re: [casper] DRAM (DDR3) ROACH-2

2013-07-24 Thread Wesley New
be read from the PPC. Thanks, Matthew On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Wesley New wes...@ska.ac.za wrote: This is great work JP. Out of interest is anyone else planning to use the DDR3 on ROACH2? Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Wed, Jul 24

Re: [casper] MSSGE with ISE 14 compatible OS

2013-07-10 Thread Wesley New
. Wes Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Alex Zahn avzah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, A bit of a picky question: The wiki mentions Ubuntu 12.04 and RHEL 6 as compatible with ISE 14. Does anyone know of any other linuxes

Re: [casper] How to avoid design placement/implementation in casper_xps command

2013-07-02 Thread Wesley New
at it. Haoxuan you could try commenting out most of xps_base/XPS_ROACH_base/etc/fast_runtime.opt and then also stop bitgen from running. Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Ryan Monroe ryan.m.mon...@gmail.com wrote: Wait until

Re: [casper] PPS Sync on Toolflow 14.2

2013-04-04 Thread Wesley New
Hi Andrea I have simulated the sync pulse with out any issues on the latest version of the ska-mlib_devel libraries with matlab 2012b and Xilinx 14.4 I have taken your design and put a scope on the output of the OR block and it looks fine. Regards Wes On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Andrea

Re: [casper] Xilinx System Generator_error

2013-03-26 Thread Wesley New
Hi Shaman, In Linux we have to source the settings/64.sh file in the Xilinx install directory before we can start any of the Xilinx tools. This sets the correct paths and environment variables. There may be a similar script for windows. Wes On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:55 AM, sha...@rri.res.in

Re: [casper] Xilinx System Generator_error

2013-03-26 Thread Wesley New
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:48 AM, sha...@rri.res.in wrote: I cannot use the latest version. Now, after re-installing, I am not getting the previous setup error. I am trying a basic simulink model and it is getting compiled and I can observe the ouput. So the design compiles all the way

Re: [casper] SOLVED: ROACH 2's suddenly freezing left and right

2013-03-15 Thread Wesley New
Hi Glenn, We are running many bof files with that change and are doing plenty of register and bram reads and writes and have not experienced any issues with these bus accesses. What version of TCPBorphServer are you running? Wes On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:28 PM, G Jones glenn.calt...@gmail.com

Re: [casper] unable to load my boffiles and to configure my roach2

2013-03-13 Thread Wesley New
register option. The Xilinx BRAM pcore that is currently used for data width of 32 does not support that option, but it would greatly helps with timing (and therefor placement) as the clock-to-out time for the UNregistered BRAM is 2 ns! Dave On Mar 12, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Wesley New wrote

[casper] ROACH2 gzipped bof files

2013-03-07 Thread Wesley New
The new TCPBorphServer 3 supports a compressed (gzip) boffile so I have updated the SKA-SA CASPER tools to compress the bof file using gzip for all roach2 compiles. This is also placed in the bit_files directory. So if you are running TCPBorphServer 3 on your roach 2 you will now be able to use

Re: [casper] Error reading registers with ROACH2

2013-03-05 Thread Wesley New
Hi Jason, It looks like you may have built the bof file with an older version of the CASPER tools. We had a similar problem with the infrastructure being held in reset and hence TCPBorphServer timed out on bus requests. Have you pulled the latest version from SKA-SA? You can try the precompiled

Re: [casper] Failed to load library dspsigops

2013-03-01 Thread Wesley New
Hi Andrea I have just updated xps_library/casper_xps.m to support Xilinx version 14.4. If you pull from ska-sa mlib_devel you will get the change. Regards Wes On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Andrea Mattana matt...@ira.inaf.it wrote: Hi all, I have installed the new toolflow having MATLAB

Re: [casper] ROACH2 J10

2013-01-29 Thread Wesley New
Hi Jonathon, The easiest way to do this is through and ADC. If you arent using an ADC on the board then you will need to make some tweaks to the tools. We dont support this at the moment but it shouldnt be hard to add it. You could implement this in a couple of ways: It could be done in the the

Re: [casper] DDR Memory Modules for Roach2

2012-10-25 Thread Wesley New
Hi Jason, I think Mo had different Kingston DIMMs which are not 1gig, but the supplier claims that they are compatible. We have to be very careful when choosing the DIMM as we can only support a few different modules as the gateware controller has the SPD information hard coded. I am unsure of

[casper] Toolflow: Supported Versions

2012-10-23 Thread Wesley New
Good Day Casperites, Since the release of the upgraded librarieshttps://github.com/ska-sa/mlib_develto support the ISE 14 tools, there have been questions about which versions are still supported. It is recommended that you use the latest version of the

Re: [casper] System generator error: INFO:Security:56 - Part 'xc5vsx95t' is not a WebPack part.

2012-10-22 Thread Wesley New
It looks like your licence is for the wrong hostid, I think this is the mac address. You could either regenerate the licence on the Xilinx site or you could set up a face eth0 interface.. On 10/22/12, Nestor Lasso Cabrera nes...@astro-udec.cl wrote: Dear Mr. or Mrs., I'm trying to run the

Re: [casper] ERROR:EDK - IPNAME: opb_v20, INSTANCE: opb0

2012-10-15 Thread Wesley New
Hi Katty, Here are some similar threads that are in the mailing-list history. http://www.mail-archive.com/casper@lists.berkeley.edu/msg02980.html http://www.mail-archive.com/casper@lists.berkeley.edu/msg02982.html Basically, the OPB cores have been deprecated in the later Xilinx tools and need

Re: [casper] Toolflow Updates

2012-10-09 Thread Wesley New
for could be dangerous e.g ADCs. Ideally people would help out with yellow blocks they have hardware for and have expertise in. Regards Andrew On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 13:29 +0200, Wesley New wrote: Hi Dave, Unfortunately the move to wishbone will need to be done en mass. Wes

Re: [casper] Error Xilinx --- Counter .

2012-10-09 Thread Wesley New
Hi Kath, If you look in the bee_xps.m script you will see a list of supported versions. It seems that get_xlVersion('full') only returns the version in the format xx.y and not xx.y. any more. I would suggest that you edit the script to support this version. Regards Wes On Tue, Oct 9, 2012

Re: [casper] Error Xilinx --- Counter .

2012-10-09 Thread Wesley New
Change: case {'13.1.'} To: case {'13.1'} No period after the 1 :) Wes On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Rurik A. Primiani rprim...@cfa.harvard.eduwrote: Hi Katherine, In your email you say you installed Matlab R2009b and Xilinx 13.1. These versions are not compatible according to

Re: [casper] Toolflow Updates

2012-10-09 Thread Wesley New
ADCs. Ideally people would help out with yellow blocks they have hardware for and have expertise in. Regards Andrew On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 13:29 +0200, Wesley New wrote: Hi Dave

Re: [casper] Toolflow Updates

2012-10-03 Thread Wesley New
On Sep 27, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Wesley New wrote: Hi Rurik These updates don't contain the wishbone port, that is the next item on my to-do list. Wes On 9/27/12, Rurik A. Primiani rprim...@cfa.harvard.edu wrote: Hi Wes, Great work! I look forward to using the newer tools. Just

Re: [casper] Toolflow Updates

2012-09-27 Thread Wesley New
to the Wishbone bus discussed at the workshop? Best, Rurik On 9/26/12 9:01 AM, Wesley New wrote: Good Day all, We have updated the existing MSSGE toolflow to work with the Xilinx 14.2 tools and Matlab2012a. I have provided a wikipage with all the details and how to get an environment setup

Re: [casper] NB! Updates to the CASPER tools and libraries

2012-09-05 Thread Wesley New
Hi Dave, thanks for your comments. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:28 PM, David MacMahon dav...@astro.berkeley.eduwrote: Hi, Wes, Thanks for taking on this effort! Here are a few comments: On Sep 3, 2012, at 4:43 AM, Wesley New wrote: Removing the following yellow blocks: XAUI - Only

[casper] NB! Updates to the CASPER tools and libraries

2012-09-03 Thread Wesley New
Good Day All, I am writing to provide a heads-up with regards to the clean up of the toolflow. The idea is to remove support for the older hardware platforms (iBOB, BEE2 and CORR) as they are no longer supported by Xilinx tools after 10. We will provide a tag to the version of the tools which

Re: [casper] CLKIN1_PERIOD error when building for ROACH II

2012-07-21 Thread Wesley New
Great work guys. We are planning porting the libraries to 14.1 as soon as possible and I'm sure we will encounter more similar issues. Wes On 7/21/12, Rurik A. Primiani rprim...@cfa.harvard.edu wrote: Digging into this further it appears that a combination of integer division and the 13.x

Re: [casper] Gerbers for ROACH

2012-02-11 Thread Wesley New
Hi Rich, As an aside, we have recently put the repository with all the roach 1 and 2 hardware files onto github, search for ska-sa and and feel free to browse through the repos. I will send you a link as soon as I get to a computer. Regards Wes On 2/10/12, Rich Lacasse rlaca...@nrao.edu wrote:

Re: [casper] help: sofware register

2011-05-31 Thread Wesley New
Hi Miguel, My suggestion would be to setup your default values for software registers in an initial design config section of your software. Regards Wesley On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Miguel migu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, It is possible set a software register with a default

[casper] ROACH DDR2 Supply Issue: Solved

2011-02-24 Thread Wesley New
. For more information and testing instructions see: http://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/ROACH_DDR2_Memory_Modules Regards Wesley New

Re: [casper] casper Digest, Vol 39, Issue 10

2011-02-15 Thread Wesley New
Hi Chao-Te As for your 2nd point. I have updated the tut2.py script to fix the programming issue. Turns out when there is no boffile specified in the arguments, it passed an empty string to the progdev function.' An svn update should solve this issue now. Regards Wesley On Tue, Feb 15, 2011