[casper] Interesting RF toy

2014-05-16 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
The Novena laptop is a reasonably priced laptop with an FPGA and a stretch goal to supply an SDR board with every laptop. There are two days left on their fundraising campaign. I think that some of you might think this is pretty cool. http://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop

Re: [casper] Python katcp cannot connect FPGA

2013-05-21 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Haoxuan Zheng jef...@mit.edu wrote: Hi David, I tried everything you suggested, and here's what I got: 1) I don't see any new messages with dmesg on ROACH2 after the attempted connection; maybe I did something wrong? I have never used dmesg before. 2) I

Re: [casper] Python katcp cannot connect FPGA

2013-05-21 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
and non-working computer. The working one does have many more [PSH, ACK] communications. Thanks a lot for your help! Jeff From: aml...@gmail.com [aml...@gmail.com] on behalf of Andrew Lutomirski [l...@mit.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:12 PM

Re: [casper] Get Python running on ROACH-2?

2013-01-08 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Haoxuan Zheng jef...@mit.edu wrote: If the answer is that we need to set up netboot to boot via dhcp+tftp+nfs, there is another constraint: we want our final system to make use of a combination of roach-1 and roach-2. We are going to have the server PC connected

Re: [casper] ten_gbe tx overflow at 28MHz (156.25MHz)

2012-05-29 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Laura Vertatschitsch verta...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I've got several designs where I consistently clock 512 64-bit samples into the ten gbe0 (v2 block) at a rate of ~14MHz.  The fpga clock is running at 200.  It's my understanding that I still should have

Re: [casper] High speed processing on host

2011-11-20 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: My current interest is CPU-only.  Most of the papers I've read about GPU-based implementations aren't terribly encouraging for  implementations where only part of the job is performed on the GPU.  The overhead costs are

Re: [casper] tut2 10gbe not configuring

2011-03-28 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
*sigh* tgtap does three things. It resolves ARP, which is great. It creates a tap interface, which is of dubious value. (Does anyone know which packets received on 10gbe are passed along to the tap interface? It better not be a lot of them, because there's no way that the PPC could keep up at

Re: [casper] CentOS xilinx license manager

2011-02-28 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Dan Werthimer d...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: hi daniel h, i suggest casper collaborators only use one of the operating systems supported by xilinx.  see the list of supported OS's at: http://www.xilinx.com/ise/ossupport/index.htm I think Daniel said that

Re: [casper] problems with Roach Gbit ethernet port

2010-10-29 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
Alternatively, putting: mii-tool -A 100baseTx,10baseT eth0 in a startup script on the roach should do the job with much less fiddling. (And whoever packages etch for the roach should add ethtool.) --Andy On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Dan Werthimer d...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: Dear Roach

[casper] Has anyone tried OpenOnload NICs?

2010-09-29 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
OpenOnload (openonload.org) claims to get remarkable numbers of received frames per second from userspace. Have any of you tried it? One of the supported NICs (Solarflare SFN4112F) is quite reasonably priced. --Andy

Re: [casper] Tut2 : Unable to transmit and receive Data from 10Gbe

2010-09-28 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
I've found the 10GbE transmit side to be very finnicky. I can get it to work reliably if I manually reset it after loading the model and if I don't rely on the tx_afull signal. I think what goes wrong is that I see tx_afull, send end of frame, then start sending the next frame. The beginning of

Re: [casper] 10gbe switch

2010-08-05 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Matt Dexter mdex...@berkeley.edu wrote: Hi Tom, were you aware of these ? http://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Recommended_10_GbE_Hardware Sadly the list is out of date: some of the switches are no longer in production. The XG700, for example, is great and cheap

[casper] Fedora 13 FTW

2010-05-27 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
We have two new lab machines running Fedora 13 64-bit. They both have Xilinx 11.4 (I think). One has Matlab 2009b and one has 2010a. Both seem to work (they build bof files OK). What's supposed to break? --Andy

Re: [casper] ROACH + BORPH time-of-day

2009-12-22 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
I haven't tried it on the ROACH, but we've had great results (i.e. much better than 1 ms) with the IEEE Precision Time Protocol (using ptpd, from ptpd.sourceforge.net). You might want to give that a try before you resort to fancier solutions. --Andy On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Tom Downes