Re: [casper] question on sync pulse

2009-06-18 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi wan, in case you haven't seen this, there are some sync pulse guidelines in casper memo 24: Sync Pulse Usage - July 2008 (Henry Chen, et al) http://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Memos best wishes, dan wan.ch...@csiro.au wrote: Hi: After reading the memo of sync pulse, I still feel a little

Re: [casper] SETI

2009-05-23 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi howard, you can help us hunt for ET by downloading the s...@home screen saver at http://seti.berkeley.edu best wishes, dan Dan Werthimer SETI Program Director University of California, Berkeley Howard Relles wrote: Sir/Madam, Can you tell me how I can help evaluate/process incoming

Re: [casper] iBob and RS232 problems

2009-01-28 Thread Dan Werthimer
if it works with one ibob board (no chaining), i suggest buying (or asking xilinx to donate) four USB download cables. dan Rurik Primiani wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks for the replies! To clarify a little more, our system is now on the summit of Mauna Kea so physically checking jumpers and

Re: [casper] Casper 10.1 library issue

2008-11-20 Thread Dan Werthimer
wan, i strongly advising the standard bee_xps tools that everyone in the casper collaboration uses. if you use a different set of tools then people won't be able to assist you, and your design won't be able to be used by other people. best wishes, dan wan.ch...@csiro.au wrote: Hi Henry:

Re: [casper] Casper 10.1 library issue

2008-11-20 Thread Dan Werthimer
on the modules I will use in my design if I could understand your library development process. But unfortunately, there is less documents talking about the casper library development process. I hope I could get some help at this point. Thanks Wan -Original Message- From: Dan Werthimer

Re: [casper] setting internal USRCLK on BEE2

2008-11-17 Thread Dan Werthimer
G Jones wrote: Hi John, I have brought this up a few time on this and the BEE2 mailing lists (archives???). hi glenn, be careful what you say on these mailings: billy made a search-able archive of the casper mailing, and he will put it on the web site soon. dan

Re: [casper] Question on control software on the ROACH

2008-11-07 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi wan, regarding your question on roach I/O: in about a month, roach will be running BORPH, a linux operating system for fpga's (the operating system we use on the BEE2). in BORPH, registers, block rams and fifo's in your simulink design appear as linux files which you can read and write.

Re: [casper] Casper library basic setup

2008-11-05 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi wan, sync should be zero on every clock except it should go high for one clock every N cycles, where N is in henry chen's memo on sync pulses. for example simulink spectrometer designs and examples on how to use sync pulse, see design gallery at:

[casper] adc nomenclature

2008-09-26 Thread Dan Werthimer
dear casper collaborators, we now have five adc boards that can plug into ibob's and roach's, and there is some confusion about what to call them. we had a discussion about ADC nomenclature yesterday, and we suggest the following names: ADC2x1000-8 is the casper dual iADC: 2 inputs,

Re: [casper] Confusion/bug in green FFT block

2008-09-19 Thread Dan Werthimer
I did get strange results when my sync pulse was too short, but that is likely just the block resetting before the reorder finishes. as laura points out, the FFT's minimum sync pulse period is tricky: see casper memo #24 http://casper.berkeley.edu/memos/sync_memo_v1.pdf btw, many people have

Re: [casper] approximate cost of next gen CASPER hardware

2008-09-13 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi jonathan, we expect roach boards will be about $2500 each, plus FPGA. you'll need to add DRAM ($50 min), ATX enclosure ($100), and ATX power supply ($50). there are several ADC boards you can use, but only two ADC board that can sample 1 Gsps currently available: a) the Atmel/E2V dual

Re: [casper] CASPER Simulink butterfly_direct query

2008-09-03 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi andrew, i'm ccing aaron parsons on this, designer of the original fft blocks. aaron might be able to comment on your email. as far as i know, no one has ever used the overflow outputs from the FFT blocks, so you may be the first person to debug this. best wishes, dan Andrew Martens

Re: [casper] ADC/iBOB sample clock and VSI

2008-03-04 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi jan, the ADC time domain data in your plots looks like it might not be time ordered correctly. time is perhaps swapped in groups of four: eg: ADC outputs samples t0, t1, t2, t3, t4, t5 and you might be displaying and analysing in this order: t3,t2,t1,t0,t7,t6,t5,t4,t11,t10,t9,t8

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