Re: [casper] Roach ADC interleave problem?

2011-06-20 Thread William Mallard
Ryan Monroe wrote: > I'm trying to interleave two 3GSPS iADCs (083000s). While I have the > gain and offset working properly, whenever I try and adjust the phase, > ADC1 starts going haywire (random phase offset, noise occasionally > added to signal, etc). Subsequently turning off the phase adju

[casper] Roach ADC interleave problem?

2011-06-20 Thread Ryan%20Monroe
Hey all, I'm trying to interleave two 3GSPS iADCs (083000s). While I have the gain and offset working properly, whenever I try and adjust the phase, ADC1 starts going haywire (random phase offset, noise occasionally added to signal, etc). Subsequently turning off the phase adjust bit in the coar

Re: [casper] UDP packet sizes and 1Gbe routers

2011-06-20 Thread Tom Downes
John / etc: The data rate is about 75kbytes/sec per board. The previous number I (mis-)quoted was the total data rate: about 1.2mbytes/sec. So, what I'm taking away is that I want a buffer of the order of several hundred milliseconds so that the port connected to my linux box has enough buffer. I

Re: [casper] UDP packet sizes and 1Gbe routers

2011-06-20 Thread Tom Downes
Jason: This all looks familiar to this old hand, but it's been a while. So let me ask some dumb questions and get the solution explicit. Your suggestion is to put those configuration options in, say, /etc/rc.local with the caveats below? 1. sysctl -w before each option 2. tuned to the actual amou

Re: [casper] UDP packet sizes and 1Gbe routers

2011-06-20 Thread Jouko Ritakari
Hi John, On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, John Ford wrote: If you try to toss these packets over the internet or through routers, you may be sunk. But you should be able to do fine if you control the switches and host adapters. Actually this is not true. We demonstrated 8 Gbps over Internet a few years

Re: [casper] UDP packet sizes and 1Gbe routers

2011-06-20 Thread Jason Manley
PAPER do this very thing with a 48-port Netgear GS748TAU. I usually use packets with payload of 4096 or 8192 bytes, along with a small header. Up to 9kB should be fine on just about any 1GbE switch these days. Remember that you can't have jumbo packets on 100mbps Ethernet. So if any of the traf

Re: [casper] UDP packet sizes and 1Gbe routers

2011-06-20 Thread Jouko Ritakari
Hi Tom, We have been working with udp. Basic problem is that the low-cost routers have too little memory, common wisdom is that they should have 100-200 milliseconds worth. This is for aggregation of data. Packet size will be noticeable only above 2-4 Gbps, Myrinet webpages are a good startin

Re: [casper] UDP packet sizes and 1Gbe routers

2011-06-20 Thread John Ford
Hi Tom. Most newer switches support jumbo frames, and most support ~9000 byte packets. I say most because you just have to look at the feature set in the data sheet. Some of the inexpensive Netgear 5,8, and 16 port switches support a packet size of from 9000 to 10240. Another problem might be t

[casper] UDP packet sizes and 1Gbe routers

2011-06-20 Thread Tom Downes
Casper folks: I've finally started working in earnest on a PPC-side C server that reads out FPGA/PPC shared memory and sends out UDP packets over the 1Gbe interface. The idea being that our data rate is so much below 10GBe (about 1 megabyte per second per board) that it did not merit investing in

Re: [casper] Linux Valon Synthesizer Interface

2011-06-20 Thread Patrick Brandt
Patrick Brandt wrote: Hi everyone, I've created a linux-compatible interface to the Valon 5007 synthesizer. This library attempts to provide all the capabilities of the Windows program created by Valon. At the moment it is a programmatic interface only (non-graphical) available in Python an