Re: [casper] Fwd: Re: SPDO ROACH spectrometer

2009-11-03 Thread Kjetil Wormnes
Hi all, For reference I've attached a summary of our problems below, and a few things I have attempted to do to isolate it. The short of it is that we are unable to transfer large amounts of data across the ethernet reliably regardless of; --kernel version --whether we are usb mount or nfs mo

Re: [casper] Fwd: Re: SPDO ROACH spectrometer

2009-11-03 Thread Jason Manley
comments appended below... On 04 Nov 2009, at 01:04, wrote: Hi Jason: Could you please let me know how do you get data using KATCP? Look at the wideband poco example (tut4) from the workshop. It is a fully-functional correlator on a single ROACH board, and includes python scripts whic

Re: [casper] [Fwd: xilinx error]

2009-11-03 Thread Jason Manley
I was having similarly strange problems until I upgraded all the Xilinx tools to the latest service packs. They've all disappeared now. Jason On 03 Nov 2009, at 20:32, John Ford wrote: Hi all. This is exactly the error I have, and I am attempting to fix it now. Note that I have XP, not V

Re: [casper] program ROACH over JTAG

2009-11-03 Thread Suraj Gowda
Hello, On Nov 3, 2009, at 6:39 PM, C-H Cheng wrote: Hello All If I want to simulate a design in ISE and generate a bit file to download to ROACH over JTAG. You can do this using the .bit generated by the CASPER toolflow, available in the same location as the .bof. bof files are generated

[casper] program ROACH over JTAG

2009-11-03 Thread C-H Cheng
Hello All If I want to simulate a design in ISE and generate a bit file to download to ROACH over JTAG. A problem I meet is the FPGA pin number assignment. For example, in ISE I select the device is vxs95t and the FPGA pin assignment in ucf file is according to my desing. But ROACH has a lot of

Re: [casper] Fwd: Re: SPDO ROACH spectrometer

2009-11-03 Thread Wan.Cheng
Hi Jason: Could you please let me know how do you get data using KATCP? I also used KATCP for a while. But I can not find an efficient way to read a large mount data from FPGA, like 1GB data stored in the Dram. And there are a few difficulties as well. Such as, network is not reliable, OS crash

Re: [casper] UDP TinySH Server on IBOB

2009-11-03 Thread David MacMahon
On Nov 3, 2009, at 13:03 , Andrew Siemion wrote: http://casper.berkeley.edu/memos/udp_packetization.pdf Nice memo, guys! I think it would be helpful to mention the byte ordering of the multi- byte values. I would assume that they are in network byte order (i.e. big endian), but it never h

[casper] UDP TinySH Server on IBOB

2009-11-03 Thread Andrew Siemion
Hi all, The wiki link ( http://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/LWIP ) to a 7.1 iBOB basesystem that had been edited to employ the iBOB UDP TinySH command server described at http://casper.berkeley.edu/memos/udp_packetization.pdf has been replaced with a shell script that will patch your current SVN chec

Re: [casper] UDP TinySH Server on IBOB

2009-11-03 Thread Andrew Siemion
Hi Dave, Good suggestions. If anyone is planning on giving this a go for the first time, Laura Spitler wrote some nice c functions for interacting with this basesystem: http://casper.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/projects/seti_spec/sandbox/laura/ibob_u dp/ - Andrew On 11/3/09 1:25 PM, "David MacMa

[casper] [Fwd: xilinx error]

2009-11-03 Thread John Ford
Hi all. This is exactly the error I have, and I am attempting to fix it now. Note that I have XP, not Vista, but it's still broken. I can't wait until the Linux build environment is up and running... I have no idea why it works on some machines but not others. John -

Re: [casper] Fwd: Re: SPDO ROACH spectrometer

2009-11-03 Thread William Mallard
Jason Manley wrote: >Kjetil Wormnes wrote: >>Jason Manley wrote: >>>Kjetil Wormnes wrote: Jason Manley wrote: >The "MAC" problem appears to be software related, and comes and >goes depending on the kernel build. >,,, >http://casper.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/roach/sw/binaries/linux/