Thanks Wes!  Jonathon is using the new ADC16x250-8 that is not able to provide 
a sync input since it uses ALL differential pairs of the ZDOK for clocks and 
data.  I guess we'll be adding it to the ROACH2 GPIO block.

Thanks again for the pointers,
Dave

On Jan 29, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Wesley New wrote:

> 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 roach_infrastructure block, you will have to put 
> it thought a differential buffer and provide the output to the rest of the 
> system. You can see how it was done with the aux_clks on roach1.
> 
> Or you could do it in the gpio block similar to the way the aux_clks are 
> exposed as GPIOs on roach1.
> 
> I am pretty busy this week, but will be available next week to help out if 
> you need.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Wes
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Jonathon Kocz <jk...@cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We are attempting to bring in a PPS signal on the ROACH2 J10 SMA connector.
> 
> Does this still come in as with the ROACH using the GPIO block? Is there a 
> page or document somewhere that describes how to bring this signal in? (GPIO 
> bit map/other, similar to 
> https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/ROACH_FPGA_Interfaces ?)
> 
> Many thanks,
> Jonathon
> 


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