Hi Alex,
If your Xport ‘somewhat’ works then I’d advise that you use it at least
this once to set your ROACH to auto power-on mode using Jason’s instructions
below (you should never need to touch it again, I believe). At one point, I
needed auto-poweron on a ROACH that had a completely dead Xport ( I couldn’t
even get access to the Actel Fusion). We ended up using an Arduino board to
digitally control the voltage across the two pins on the board that control the
power. It wasn’t too difficult for us because we were already using the Arduino
board for something else at the time and had some extra pins to spare for this.
This may be a bit out of your way if you just needed this functionality
alone…but it works nonetheless. :)
P.S. Before reading Jason’s email didn’t know that once you set the auto-on
feature using the Actel the board can still be unreliable.
L
> Louis P. Dartez
> Graduate Research Assistant
> Center for Advanced Radio Astronomy
> University of Texas @ Brownsville
On Feb 21, 2014, at 12:27 AM, Jason Manley <jman...@ska.ac.za> wrote:
> There is a bit that you can set in the Actel Fusion that's supposed to enable
> this functionality. We use it on KAT-7, but some have reported that it's not
> entirely reliable (sometimes the ROACH doesn't actually start).
>
> use the roach_monitor.py script to connect to your Xport.
>
> =====================================
> ROACH MONITOR CONTROL
> =====================================
>
> 1) Retrieve details
> 2) Reset crashlog counter
> 3) Power-up ROACH
> 4) Reset ROACH, but not Actel
> 5) Toggle safety-shutdown defeat
> 6) Power down ROACH
> 7) Toggle PPC EEPROM boot (config H)
> 8) Toggle auto power-on after hard-reset.
> other) Exit
>
> You want option 8.
>
> Get it here:
> https://casper.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/roach/sw/roach_monitor/roach_monitor.py
>
> Jason Manley
> CBF Manager
> SKA-SA
>
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>
> On 21 Feb 2014, at 4:23, Louis P. Dartez <louisdar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Ford,
>>
>> Wanna tackle this one? Maybe give some details on the Digital
>> Finger implementation that we put together for LoFASM II w/ the Arduino a
>> while back?
>>
>> L
>>
>> -- Louis P. Dartez
>> (956) 372-5812
>> Arecibo Remote Command Center Scholar
>> Center for Advanced Radio Astronomy
>> University of Texas at Brownsville
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Alexander Young <alyo...@sas.upenn.edu>
>> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Is there a way (maybe with a jumper in the right place) to make the ROACH1
>> boot automatically when the main power is supplied (i.e., after a power
>> failure or shutdown). The Xport isn't really convenient for our current
>> hardware setup, but we could make it work if that's our only option.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>> P.S. I noticed a thread about this already in the casper mail archive, but
>> the response with the solution appears to be missing.
>>
>> ===========================
>> Alexander H. Young
>> Graduate Student
>> Department of Physics & Astronomy
>> University of Pennsylvania
>> 215-746-3805
>> ===========================
>>
>
