RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [casper] 1-bit quantization using Xilinx transceivers

2019-04-25 Thread 'Hawkins, David W (334B)' via casper@lists.berkeley.edu
Thanks Dan! Much appreciated! From: Dan Werthimer [mailto:d...@ssl.berkeley.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2019 9:51 AM To: CASPER Mailing List Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [casper] 1-bit quantization using Xilinx transceivers hi dave, i don't know about using the SERDES as ADC's. paul horowitz

RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [casper] 1-bit quantization using Xilinx transceivers

2019-04-25 Thread 'Hawkins, David W (334B)' via casper@lists.berkeley.edu
Hi Jack, >> I did have the unfair advantage of sharing a lab with him :) As did I - he visited OVRO for a while - but as you comment ... 2010 is a million years ago :) Many thanks for the name, and the links to additional materials. Myron (GPS person) subscribes to the CASPER list, so he now

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [casper] 1-bit quantization using Xilinx transceivers

2019-04-25 Thread Jack Hickish
I did have the unfair advantage of sharing a lab with him :) On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 18:56, 'Hawkins, David W (334B)' via casper@lists.berkeley.edu wrote: > > Jack - you rock - Adam was the name I was recalling, but I could not think of > his last name. Thanks! > > -Original Message- >

RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [casper] 1-bit quantization using Xilinx transceivers

2019-04-25 Thread 'Hawkins, David W (334B)' via casper@lists.berkeley.edu
Jack - you rock - Adam was the name I was recalling, but I could not think of his last name. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Jack Hickish [mailto:jackhick...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2019 9:55 AM To: casper Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [casper] 1-bit quantization using Xilinx

Re: [casper] 1-bit quantization using Xilinx transceivers

2019-04-25 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Dave, A million years ago (circa 2010) Adam Coates (then grad student of Prof Mike Jones at Oxford -- https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/jonesmi) was looking at this using ROACH1 (virtex5) transceivers to sample at ~3GHz. IIRC Adam went into industry after his PhD, and I'm not sure

Re: [casper] 1-bit quantization using Xilinx transceivers

2019-04-25 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi dave, i don't know about using the SERDES as ADC's. paul horowitz and andrew howard used the xilinx LVDS inputs as flash ADC comparators sampling at about 1 Gsps, they built thousands of multilevel ADC's, biasing one input of each comparator at different DC levels using a resistor divider

[casper] 1-bit quantization using Xilinx transceivers

2019-04-25 Thread 'Hawkins, David W (334B)' via casper@lists.berkeley.edu
Hi All, Has anyone on the CASPER list investigated using the Xilinx transceivers as 1-bit ADCs? Transceiver receivers can be kept coherent to a reference clock by configuring the receiver clock-and-data-recovery unit not to recover the clock from the incoming data stream. There are some

Re: [casper] Simulink design issue

2019-04-25 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Nikita, Can you post a link to your model please -- i suspect there's something funny with you one of the simulation inputs is configured. Cheers Jack On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 16:33, 'Nikita Rathore' via casper@lists.berkeley.edu wrote: > > I am working on simulink design of 2 element

[casper] Simulink design issue

2019-04-25 Thread 'Nikita Rathore' via casper@lists.berkeley.edu
I am working on simulink design of 2 element interferometer but I am having following issue in simulation. - Version Log -- Version Path System Generator /opt/Xilinx/14.7/ISE_DS/ISE/sysgen

Re: [casper] Data-Width Conversion in FIFO

2019-04-25 Thread Andrew Martens
Hi Indrajit This should do something like what you want to do I think. Cheers Andrew On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 6:53 AM Indrajit Barve wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to implement a FIFO with input port data type depth and > width of 2048 X 32 and output port data type 1024 X 64.

Re: [casper] Data-Width Conversion in FIFO

2019-04-25 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Indrajit, I'm surprised that the Xilinx FIFO block doesn't give the option of having ports of two different widths. However, if it doesn't, the easiest thing to do might be to use a dual port RAM, which does allow the two interfaces to have different widths. If you can explain a bit more about

Re: [casper] Bof file issue

2019-04-25 Thread Marc
Is the fpg file empty, if not do a less on the file - the first couple of lines should be human readable register definitions, followed by the bitstream to check that it looks reasonble. Also see if you can ping the IP of the roach board, and see if telnet to its port 7147 works regards marc On

Re: [casper] Bof file issue

2019-04-25 Thread 'Nikita Rathore' via casper@lists.berkeley.edu
I am using MATLAB R2012b, Xilinx 14.7 and Roach2 board. Yes, I have .fpg file and I am trying to burn fpga with the generated .fpg file using casperfpga but in that case I am getting following issue: import casperfpga > >>> fpga=casperfpga.katcp_fpga.KatcpFpga('192.168.100.192') > >>>

Re: [casper] Bof file issue

2019-04-25 Thread Marc
Not sure what hardware you are working on, but your system might have generated a newer .fpg file ? If this isn't the case, maybe the mkbof executable isn't built for your build machine architecture (x86 vs amd64) or c/linker revision ? See if you can run the mkbof executable manually ? regards