Hi Troy, I see no showstoppers in your platform description; but at the same time there are some non-trivial integration tasks. For example, our firm owns a 4DSP FMC150, but we have yet to port the existing opencpi device workers to the ML605. The ML605 is a fine, stable platform; and we have had few issues with it over the years. Specifically with regard to LVDS ADC/DAC integration remains porting the IOSERDES logic from V5 to V6. It may or may not be trivial. Examples from V5 are given here:
https://github.com/opencpi/opencpi/blob/master/hdl/primitives/util_virtex5/imports/ddrInput2.v https://github.com/opencpi/opencpi/blob/master/hdl/primitives/util_virtex5/imports/ddrOutput2.v We can volley emails if you have more questions. Best, Shep On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Ziersch, Troy (Contractor) < [email protected]> wrote: > UNCLASSIFIED > > Hi, > > The team I am part of is currently researching the possibly of a > standard signal processing development platform for a government > research department. > > An initial review of your documents has shown that OpenCPI seems to meet > our requirements for a middleware. > > The platforms we are targeting are your i7/ML605 reference platform for > development and a uTCA platform for field trials. > The field trial platform will consist of the follow or similar: > - i7 quad core CPU, 8G RAM, PCIe Gen II x8 : > http://www.gocct.com/sheets/AM/am31xx0x.htm > - Xilinx V6 FPGA AMC, PCIe Gen II x8 : > http://www.lyrtech.com/products/perseus_601x.php > - One of these FMC > o 8 x 250 Msam/sec ADC : > http://www.4dsp.com/FMC108.php > o 4/2/1 x 1.25/2.5/5 Gsam/sec ADC : > http://www.4dsp.com/FMC125.php > o 2 x 1 Gsam ADC, 2 x 1 Gsam DAC : > http://www.4dsp.com/FMC110.php > o RF Transceiver : > http://www.lyrtech.com/products/radio420x.php > > Or preference for time synchronisation is Precision Time Protocol (IEEE > 1588) for CPUs and 10MHz/PPS for FPGAs provided by the following or > similar: > - Meinberg LANTIME PTP > - http://www.meinberg.de/english/products/lantime-m600-mrs-ptpv2.htm > > The use of PTP requires a recent version of the Linux kernel and we > prefer a distribution which has all pre-requisites available as > packages. Thus our preferred Linux distribution is Ubuntu 10.11. > > It appears that Ubuntu and PCIe Gen II x8 are not currently supported by > OpenCPI. > > So some initial questions we have are: > - When is the next stable release due? > - How much of the specification documents will be implemented for the > next release? > - Are there any technical issues when selecting a platform that we > need to be aware of? > - How trivial is it to update OpenCPI to support the field trial > platform? > - Is there a roadmap available for platform support (OS, FPGA cards, > FMC cards, Fabrics)? > - The bug tracking tool at opencpi.org seems unused, is there an > alternative being used? > - The forum at opencpi.prg appears to be broken > > Any help will be much appreciated. > > Cheers, > Troy > IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Department of Defence > and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914. > If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact > the sender and delete the email. > > _______________________________________________ > opencpi_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencpi.org/listinfo.cgi/opencpi_dev-opencpi.org >
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