Re: [casper] Accessing SMA clock inputs and DCM?

2011-08-26 Thread William Mallard
Jon Losh wrote: > So I'm interested in taking in a signal from one of the dedicated > SMA clock inputs on the roach, running it through the DCM, and then > out of the GPIO SMA. I specifically want the DCM because I can then > actually lock multiple outputs together. Within the casper toolflow, > th

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

Re: [casper] casper.berkeley.edu hacked

2011-05-18 Thread William Mallard
Mark Wagner wrote: > William Mallard wrote: >> When i log in on the wiki, pages that do not start with >> /wiki/Special: are blank. If i log out again, they're fine. > > Not sure what caused that, but I upgraded Mediawiki and it seems > to be working now. Let me

Re: [casper] casper.berkeley.edu hacked

2011-05-17 Thread William Mallard
Hi Mark, Mark Wagner wrote: > If anyone has any issues or notices something amiss, please let us > know. When i log in on the wiki, pages that do not start with /wiki/Special: are blank. If i log out again, they're fine. Billy

Re: [casper] Getting data off the ROACH

2011-05-13 Thread William Mallard
Hi Ben, Ben Mazin wrote: > What are the highest data rates people have achieved getting data > from the FPGA through the 1GbE port on the powerPC? Afaik 160Mbps is the theoretical limit from the FPGA to the PowerPC. Dave gives a concise summary here: http://www.mail-archive.com/casper@lists.berk

Re: [casper] PlanAhead and broken borph executables

2011-05-13 Thread William Mallard
Hi Dave, > I would just check that you aren't running into the "read-back all > zero's" issue. > > Check that you have "-g GTS_cycle:2" as a bitgen argument. > It is set in XPS_ROACH_base/etc/bitgen.ut Ah, i wasn't aware of that file. I just ran bitgen with GTS_cycle:2, and it didn't seem to hel

[casper] PlanAhead and broken borph executables

2011-05-13 Thread William Mallard
Hi all, I'm having trouble generating functional borph executables, and i'm hoping someone can help me figure out why. Since i'm targeting high speeds, i can't use the bee_xps workflow. So here's what i'm doing: 1) synthesize a mdl via the bee_xps interface. 2) load the netlist into PlanAhead. 3)

Re: [casper] Problem with adc083000x2

2011-01-27 Thread William Mallard
Hi Ron, The adc083000x2 block requires some massaging. First, when you drop the block into a design, right-click it and select "Link Options -> Disable Link". Then, select the block in your design (so that running gcb will return the name of the adc block). Switch over to the Matlab window, and

Re: [casper] How to disable the 'bee_xps' timing check?

2010-11-19 Thread William Mallard
Andrea Mattana wrote: > Guy Kenfak wrote: >> I got this message, >> >> To disable the PAR timing check: >> >> 1> Disable the "Treat timing closure failure as error" >> option from the Project Options dialog in XPS. >> >> OR >> >> 2> Type following at the XPS prompt: >> XPS% xset enable_par_timing_e

Re: [casper] Reference to non-existent field 'clock_loc'

2009-12-15 Thread William Mallard
Thanks for posting this, Glenn. I was helping a visitor debug a useless Simulink error, and your post "solved" it. We were following the original ROACH tutorial: http://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Roach_Tutorial Matlab wasn't crashing for us, but whenever we tried to simulate or compile, we got s

Re: [casper] Silly NFS problem

2009-12-11 Thread William Mallard
Glenn Jones wrote: >Sorry to bother you all with this, but I'm having trouble getting my >ROACH to mount the network file system. ... >My /etc/exports file is as follows: >/srv/roach_boot/etch 192.168.0.0(rw,subtree_check,no_root_squash, >insecure) Have you tried exporting 192.168.0.0/24 instead?

Re: [casper] broken links

2009-11-08 Thread William Mallard
John Ford wrote: >Hi all. I'm getting a message from simulink that my library links >are broken on my pfb and fft, and some other casper and gavrt blocks. >I relinked them, but they are broken again after reconfiguring the >block. Is that normal? > >Seems to work OK. If you change a parameter an

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/

Re: [casper] Setting up ROACH NFS filesystem and server

2009-10-29 Thread William Mallard
Jason Manley wrote: >Billy, since the page was renamed from roach_getting_started, old >emails in the mailinglist point to the wrong page. Is there a chance >of putting-up a redirect to the new location? Done.

Re: [casper] Setting up ROACH NFS filesystem and server

2009-10-29 Thread William Mallard
Danny Price wrote: >I extracted the filesystem from the SVN >(filesystem_etch_nfs_2009_07_07.tar.gz), to > /srv/roach_boot/etch > >and I've set these up in the /etc/exports file: > # 'ROACH-dev' is this PC, the NFS host > /srv ROACH-dev(rw,no_root_squash) > > # 'roach' is the roach board,

[casper] fixed a wiki css bug

2009-10-15 Thread William Mallard
A casperite using the Chromium web browser was seeing a layout error with the position of the navigation sidebar on the wiki. I've fixed the problem. But, if the wiki layout is now broken for anyone else, please email me. Billy

Re: [casper] questions about tut4 from ref_designs_tutorials (wide-band version of pocket correlator)

2009-10-13 Thread William Mallard
William Mallard wrote: >Zhiwei Liu wrote: >>when I tried to compile this wide-band correlator, I got the >>following message: >... >>ERROR:Portability:3 - This Xilinx application has run out of memory >> or has encountered a memory conflict. Current memory usage is

Re: [casper] questions about tut4 from ref_designs_tutorials (wide-band version of pocket correlator)

2009-10-13 Thread William Mallard
Zhiwei Liu wrote: >William Mallard wrote: >>Zhiwei Liu wrote: >>>when I tried to compile this wide-band correlator, I got the >>>following message: >>... >>>ERROR:Portability:3 - This Xilinx application has run out of memory >>> or has enco

Re: [casper] questions about tut4 from ref_designs_tutorials (wide-band version of pocket correlator)

2009-10-13 Thread William Mallard
Zhiwei Liu wrote: >when I tried to compile this wide-band correlator, I got the >following message: ... >ERROR:Portability:3 - This Xilinx application has run out of memory > or has encountered a memory conflict. Current memory usage is > 2079736 kb. You can try increasing your system's physi

Re: [casper] CASPER PTB Blocks

2009-10-09 Thread William Mallard
Ron Ferril wrote: >William Mallard wrote: >>Ron Ferril wrote: >>>Ron Ferril wrote: >>>>Ron Ferril wrote: >>>>>The Simulink library browser shows all the BEE_XPS, >>>>>CASPER DSP and Xilinx libraries, but I recieve an >>>>>e

Re: [casper] CASPER PTB Blocks

2009-10-08 Thread William Mallard
Ron Ferril wrote: >Ron Ferril wrote: >>Ron Ferril wrote: >>>The Simulink library browser shows all the BEE_XPS, >>>CASPER DSP and Xilinx libraries, but I recieve an >>>error message when I try to add a PTB block from the >>>CASPER DSP library. The error message suggests that >>>the casper_library/P

Re: [casper] ROACH spectrometer

2009-09-19 Thread William Mallard
Andrew Siemion wrote: >William Mallard wrote: >>Tom Kuiper wrote: >>>Does anyone have a feeling for how many 32,768 channel 1 GHz wide >>>spectrometers (or 65536 channel 2 GHz spectrometers) could be >>>implemented on a ROACH? >> >>I'm al

Re: [casper] ROACH spectrometer

2009-09-19 Thread William Mallard
Tom Kuiper wrote: >Does anyone have a feeling for how many 32,768 channel 1 GHz wide >spectrometers (or 65536 channel 2 GHz spectrometers) could be >implemented on a ROACH? I'm already working on a 3GHz FX correlator, so i forked it, truncated it at the end of the F engine, dropped the PFB FIR, re

Re: [casper] fifo and lwip errors

2009-08-31 Thread William Mallard
Ted Jaeger wrote: >William Mallard wrote: >>Ted Jaeger wrote: >>>Is there a tutorial anywhere on setting up the software needed for a >>>fully functional iBOB development system. I have been following the >>>wiki articles on the required software and how to ad

Re: [casper] casper tool set up question from ted jaeger

2009-08-31 Thread William Mallard
Hi Ted, Ted Jaeger wrote: >Is there a tutorial anywhere on setting up the software needed for a >fully functional iBOB development system. I have been following the >wiki articles on the required software and how to add the MSSGE tool >flow, but I (and maybe other introductory users) could use a

Re: [casper] cross-compiling for the ROACH

2009-08-17 Thread William Mallard
Melissa Soriano wrote: >I am having trouble cross-compiling C code for execution on the >ROACH. Can anyone who has been able to cross compile please offer >advice? > >I picked up files filesystem_etch_nfs_2009_07_07.tar.gz from the >casper svn repository. I followed the instructions on the "Setti

Re: [casper] The failure in compiling the cross compiler

2009-06-05 Thread William Mallard
wan.ch...@csiro.au wrote: >Hi: > >I meet a failure when I try to compile the powerpc cross compiler. > >At this step: >$ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot -b > ../gcc.build 2>&1 || echo >'Build error.' >I received: > >dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: automake1.9 gawk >dpkg-buildpac

Re: [casper] Roach issue: Stale NFS file handle error is reported

2009-05-25 Thread William Mallard
I also used to have this problem: >roach:~# reboot >WARNING: could not determine runlevel - doing soft reboot IIRC, calling reboot with the -f flag solves this problem. Billy wan.ch...@csiro.au wrote: >Hi Jason: > >We have found what the problem is. > >I have to use reboot command before I sh

Re: [casper] an issue of the ethernet port of Roach

2009-05-21 Thread William Mallard
wan.ch...@csiro.au wrote: >Hi: > >I have to turn on and turn off Roach ethernet port before it works. >The commands I used: > >ifdown eth0 >ifup eth0 > >Or it could not work. I try to insert these two commands into init >script. But it is not successful. > >Any idea? > >Thanks > >Wan What do you h

Re: [casper] roach apt-get could not find right server

2009-05-21 Thread William Mallard
wan.ch...@csiro.au wrote: >Hi: > >I am trying to use the apt-get install on the Roach debian. But it >seems it always try to download file from a private IP address >192.168.1.21. > >roach:~# apt-get install dhcp >Reading package lists... Done >Building dependency tree... Done >The following NEW pa

Re: [casper] FPGA could not be configured

2009-05-14 Thread William Mallard
ware will be the CASPER SVN. > > Jason > > > On 14 May 2009, at 11:01, William Mallard wrote: > >> Hi Wan, >> >> I will assume that by "ROACH core" you mean "ROACH root filesystem" >> (or "rootfs" for short). As it says o

Re: [casper] FPGA could not be configured

2009-05-14 Thread William Mallard
No such file or directory > >It seems the serial port is not initialized correctly. > >Anybody has any idea? > >And anybody could tell me a good start point? What's the revision >number? > >Thanks > >Wan > > >-Original Message- >From: William M

Re: [casper] problem

2009-05-03 Thread William Mallard
A. A. Krzemien wrote: >Hallo >One wave signal is received as harmonic in three different points. >Each receiver registers in the same time three signal value: > ?si,j=Ai*sin(pi+f*tj)points i=1..3time j=1..3. >Based on this 9 numbers and time tj please calculate: A amplitude, f >frequency a

Re: [casper] FPGA could not be configured

2009-05-03 Thread William Mallard
Hi Wan, We've had Debian running on ROACH for about a month here in Berkeley. As Henry said in his last email: >The other possibility is that the kernel you have on the board is >outdated and doesn't yet support the differences in the bitstream it >has to download to the FPGA. You may need to rec

[casper] new mailing list archive

2009-04-20 Thread William Mallard
>From now on, the casper mailing list will be publicly archived and searchable. Follow the link at the top of the new website. I'll populate the archive with all old messages in the next few days. Billy

Re: [casper] LWIP in 10.1

2008-09-03 Thread William Mallard
Hi Glenn, Where's the Makefile in question? I can give it a shot. Billy G Jones wrote: > Hi Andrew, > Thanks for the suggestions. The include files are definitely in the > included paths. I tried copying them into the Software directory, > and that helped a little, but it still can't find the f

[casper] casper.berkeley.edu server migration

2008-06-25 Thread William Mallard
Casperites, Last night, all services on casper.berkeley.edu were migrated from casper1.ssl.berkeley.edu to casper2.ssl.berkeley.edu. We updated the DNS records at 10am, so any future connections to casper.berkeley.edu will be directed to casper2 (rather than casper1). User accounts, home directo