Re: [casper] number of coefficients needed in PFB and FFT

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew Martens
Hi All I have just completed a rather large overhaul of the CASPER FFT family. Rigorous testing has yet to be performed but it "works" at the moment and has been pushed to the ska-sa repo on github for early adopters/testers. The main aim (and reason this email continues this thread) was to s

Re: [casper] (no subject)

2013-07-16 Thread John Ford
> Hi, Jeff, > > Matt pointed out to me that the crystals on the ROACH2 are pretty nice > (100 MHz +/- 25 ppm). Maybe this one misbehaving ROACH2 has a bad crystal > (or a badly soldered crystal)? > > FWIW, when the PAPER correlator used FPGA-based X engines, the X engines > ran asynchronously from

Re: [casper] help -Workshop 2011 tutorials - TUT9

2013-07-16 Thread Dan Werthimer
casperians, can you please advise lijian where to get 2011 and 2012 tutorials? please see email below. lijian, i suggest you use the 2012 tutorials rather than the 2011 tutorials. best wishes, dan On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:34 AM, 李健(lijian) wrote: > ** > Hi Dan > I want to test tut9 as

Re: [casper] (no subject)

2013-07-16 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, John, On Jul 16, 2013, at 7:41 AM, John Ford wrote: >> FWIW, when the PAPER correlator used FPGA-based X engines, the X engines >> ran asynchronously from the F engines at 5% faster than the F engines (210 >> MHz vs 200 MHz). I don't really understand why they ran asynchronously. >> IMHO, it

Re: [casper] number of coefficients needed in PFB and FFT

2013-07-16 Thread David MacMahon
Wow! Thanks, Andrew, that sounds like a lot of work! Do you have any utilization comparisons of old vs new? Dave On Jul 16, 2013, at 6:22 AM, Andrew Martens wrote: > Hi All > > I have just completed a rather large overhaul of the CASPER FFT family. > Rigorous testing has yet to be performed

[casper] Understanding adc

2013-07-16 Thread Xuexiu Han
Hi all, I wonder if the adc yellow blocks in simulink implement the on-chip demux of adc data, i.e. the adc yellow blocks only serve as a 2:1 demux of zdok input data using DDR at fpga side regardless of what has already been done on adc board. If I want the ddr only at fpga to use another 8-bit

Re: [casper] number of coefficients needed in PFB and FFT

2013-07-16 Thread Suraj Gowda
Hi all, The memory footprint of the fft_direct block could be reduced if it is split into two blocks, one for the operator to manipulate the phase of the FFT of each input and another block to calculate the true direct-form FFT, i.e. not mapping together a larger FFT (see p. 615 of http://apps.nrbo

Re: [casper] Understanding adc

2013-07-16 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi xuexiu, some of the adc yellow blocks implement a 4:1 demux (eg: data comes in from the adc at 1 Gbit/sec per lane, and data emerges from the yellow block at 250 MHz, but four times wider), and some of the adc yellow blocks implement a 2:1 demux. and some of the adc yellow blocks do not impl

Re: [casper] number of coefficients needed in PFB and FFT

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew Martens
Hi Dave Do you have any utilization comparisons of old vs new? Not yet, I hope to do a basic one soon though. Savings will depend on use case. Also, you can optimise for resources in a few ways (DSPs vs BRAMs when using fft_direct, logic vs BRAMS in the biplex stages and in "reset point" stor