Regarding the parallel to serial converter, so far I haven't experienced a
need to set the configuration registers on the DAC, so I just deleted that
block inside the yellow block and tied the output ports to constants.
Obviously not a good solution if you do need the configuration registers.
Not sure about the warning.
Glenn
On Sep 27, 2015 7:02 PM, "Tubbesing, Richard G" <tubbe...@my.erau.edu>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I am a graduate student at ERAU using ROACHs for my research project.
>
>
> I have been trying to use the toolflow for some time now and I have run in
> to many issues.
>
>
> Currently, I have the latest mlib_devel from the casper-astro git.
>
>
> When I compile a design that includes the dac_mkid yellow block, I am
> having two issues:
>
>
> 1) If the yellow block is placed fresh from the library into the model and
> then the model is compiled, I get an error related to initializing mask
> parameters on the "parallel_to_serial" block that is in a subsystem of the
> dac_mkid block.
>
>
> I can fix this if I replace the "parallel_to_serial" with one from the
> library or simply copying it and pasting itself back in to the model.
>
>
> Is there anyway to fix this? I have a work around but it is rather
> annoying to go in and replace those to blocks whenever I use the dac_mkid
> yellow block.
>
>
>
> 2) I am getting many warnings when I compile. They look like the following
> two:
>
>
> Warning: Output port 1 of
> 'adc_to_dac_test/dac_mkid1/adc_to_dac_test_dac_mkid1_dac_data_i1' is not
> connected.
> > In
> /opt/Xilinx/14.6/ISE_DS/ISE/sysgen/bin/lin64/xlCompileGenerateMdl.p>xlCompileGenerateMdl
> at 203
> In
> /opt/Xilinx/14.6/ISE_DS/ISE/sysgen/bin/lin64/xlGenerateButton.p>xlGenerateButton
> at 302
> In gen_xps_files at 323
> In casper_xps>run_Callback at 158
> In casper_xps at 88
> In
> @(hObject,eventdata)casper_xps('run_Callback',hObject,eventdata,guidata(hObject))
>
> Warning: Output port 1 of
> 'adc_to_dac_test/dac_mkid1/adc_to_dac_test_dac_mkid1_dac_data_q0' is not
> connected.
> > In
> /opt/Xilinx/14.6/ISE_DS/ISE/sysgen/bin/lin64/xlCompileGenerateMdl.p>xlCompileGenerateMdl
> at 203
> In
> /opt/Xilinx/14.6/ISE_DS/ISE/sysgen/bin/lin64/xlGenerateButton.p>xlGenerateButton
> at 302
> In gen_xps_files at 323
> In casper_xps>run_Callback at 158
> In casper_xps at 88
> In
> @(hObject,eventdata)casper_xps('run_Callback',hObject,eventdata,guidata(hObject))
>
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this? The model will compile successfully
> but I think these warnings are preventing the actual design from working on
> the ROACH.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> -Richard T.
>
>
>
>
