Re: [casper] How do you program a ROACH-2 that is soloboot mode?

2013-09-05 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
hey joe, how far did you get with KATCP and progdev? is your question perhaps about using the uploadbof command (mail list archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/casper@lists.berkeley.edu/msg03726.html )? --Laura On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Kujawski, Joseph jkujaw...@siena.eduwrote: I have

Re: [casper] Setting up CASPER tools on a Windows machine

2013-08-19 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Might not solve your problem exactly, but a virtual machine with windows host, red hat guest might work well. On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Mark Wagner mwag...@ssl.berkeley.eduwrote: Hi Joseph, I don't think Matlab 2013 is supported by Xilinx 14.5 or 14.6 yet:

Re: [casper] Fwd:connecting with .py this is register cnt_rst not found

2013-05-20 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Hey Katty, This error is telling you that there is no register in your model with name cnt_rst. There still may be a register that serves the same purpose, but simply goes by different spelling. If you produced this bof file from a Simulink model, you can look in the model to find the correct

[casper] ten GBE and DSP48E resource usage

2013-01-29 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Hey Casper, I compiled a design for the ROACH board using the 11.x toolset and saw the resource usage for DSP48Es was 366 out of 640, 57%. There are many filters in the design, but can be thought of as having two identical signal paths. I built each signal path up into 64 bit words ready to

Re: [casper] Problem with Toolflow in Linux

2013-01-22 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Hey Tim, Just a quick question, but are you using the startup scripts found herehttps://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Linux_xps under the Invoking System Generator title? --Laura On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Timothy Madden tmad...@aps.anl.govwrote: To whom it may concern: I am getting

[casper] experience replacing amplifier on KATADC boards?

2013-01-18 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
advice or experience out there. --Laura Vertatschitsch

Re: [casper] ROACH: Stale NFS Handle?

2012-09-10 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Our sys admin was able to get our system back up to working condition with the following script: #!/bin/sh sync echo echo THIS WILL REMOUNT, FSCK, AND REBOOT YOUR COMPUTER, YOU HAVE 5s TO CTRL+C echo sleep 6 sync;sync mount -n -o remount,ro / || exit 1 fsck /dev/mmcblock1 echo echo REBOOTING IN

[casper] confirm DAFIRv9_0 does not work with ROACH 1?

2012-06-29 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Hey Casperites, I've been recently working on a design that uses a DAFIRv9.0 from the 11.5 Xilinx toolset, and the simulated behavior and on-chip behavior are very different. Checking the manual, I see that it does not seem to be valid for the Virtex 5 chip in the Roach 1. Can anyone confirm

[casper] ten_gbe tx overflow at 28MHz (156.25MHz)

2012-05-29 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
to be sure that the tx_valid and eof flags are being set when I want. Could there be something else going on here? Could the tx_overrun flag also be set in the event that the buffer cannot clear out the data before the next data point in? --Laura Vertatschitsch

Re: [casper] Matlab crashes with tutorial 3

2012-05-07 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Hey Gopal, One thing you can try is to start matlab without loading the yellow blocks, open the model file and add them in fresh from the library, save and return to normal usage. This will require you comment out the load xps_library portion of your matlab startup script. Start matlab, and

Re: [casper] Tutorial 2 Compilation Problems

2012-05-03 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Hey Joe and the rest of the Casper community, The toolflow setup pagehttps://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Toolflow_Setupsuggests that you have to have the licensed 10gbe core from Xilinx. Could this be causing the a core is unlicensed! error? Joe, do you know if you requested a license from

Re: [casper] reliable data streaming protocol for 100Mbps ethernet

2012-04-03 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
an announcement soon so that people who are interested can start designing for ROACH2. Regards Andrew On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 17:22 -0700, Laura Vertatschitsch wrote: Hey Casperites, I see a lot of data about reliable streaming using the 10GbE ports and a lovely

Re: [casper] reliable data streaming protocol for 100Mbps ethernet

2012-03-16 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
an announcement soon so that people who are interested can start designing for ROACH2. Regards Andrew On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 17:22 -0700, Laura Vertatschitsch wrote: Hey Casperites, I see a lot of data about reliable streaming using the 10GbE ports and a lovely simulink

Re: [casper] reliable data streaming protocol for 100Mbps ethernet

2012-03-16 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
we use thishttp://www.colfaxdirect.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=958card on a machine running CentOS 5. Since CentOS is basically RedHat or Fedora, I don't think you'd have a problem with compatibility. -Louis P. Dartez On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Laura Vertatschitsch verta

Re: [casper] reliable data streaming protocol for 100Mbps ethernet

2012-03-14 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Andrew On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 17:22 -0700, Laura Vertatschitsch wrote: Hey Casperites, I see a lot of data about reliable streaming using the 10GbE ports and a lovely simulink block to boot. Is there an analogous method for streaming data out over the 1Gbps ethernet? Not sure

[casper] reliable data streaming protocol for 100Mbps ethernet

2012-03-12 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Hey Casperites, I see a lot of data about reliable streaming using the 10GbE ports and a lovely simulink block to boot. Is there an analogous method for streaming data out over the 1Gbps ethernet? Not sure if someone has written some python control scripts to accomplish this - I may have just

Re: [casper] Workstop 10 Tutorial 3 trial

2012-03-02 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Hey Dan, I'm following along closely here. Will we also need to manually set the registers for the katadc or is that built into the .bof file upon execution? I am reading the KatADC data sheet along with looking at the corr.katadc functions. Is there any documentation about the katadc block or

Re: [casper] some warnings/errors with Casper Libs

2012-02-21 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
- the Choosing a Version section of the Roach website says TODO. I am very new to this, and the tutorials seem to be pretty vital in learning how to use these tools. Any other newbies starting fresh encountering these sorts of errors? --Laura Vertatschitsch

Re: [casper] Fresh set up with Ubuntu

2012-02-17 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Laura Vertatschitsch verta...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you so much for your kind replies. For what it's worth, I will include the error at the end of the message. It boils down to mkbof. I searched the archives and found a similar error that Louis commented

Re: [casper] Fresh set up with Ubuntu

2012-02-17 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
ia32-libs Best, Rurik On 2/17/12 1:22 PM, Laura Vertatschitsch wrote: Hey Griffin, It is definitely there and is executable. We tried simply running in the command line the same syntax described in gen_prog_files right from the directory with mkbof - still same error. I mentioned that we

Re: [casper] CASPER workshop videos

2012-02-17 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Hey John, I would love to view them as well - the links aren't working in my chrome or firefox at the moment. Just me? --Laura On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Soriano, Melissa (335J) melissa.a.sori...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: Hi John, I am interested in the videotaped CASPER tutorials also.

Re: [casper] Fresh set up with Ubuntu

2012-02-16 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
And to make sure I understand, are you guys using RHEL 5 64 bit without updates? Our University seems to have subscriptions for RHEL 6. --Laura On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Laura Vertatschitsch verta...@gmail.comwrote: Thank you so much for your kind replies. For what it's worth, I

Re: [casper] Fresh set up with Ubuntu

2012-02-15 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
take a few hours and set up our virtual machine with Red Hat so we can be synced up with the rest of the community. --Laura Vertatschitsch ::: Specs: Ubuntu 11.10, Xilinx 11.5 (Including system generator 11.5), and Matlab 2009a. We are operating in a virtual machine, and we set up

[casper] Fresh set up with Ubuntu

2012-02-14 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
at the end of the compile of tutorial 1 - but wanted to check if there was further documentation on the setup that we could read first. Laura Vertatschitsch Electrical Engineering University of Washington