Re: [casper] VHDL for ROACH2

2016-06-23 Thread Adam Isaacson
Hi Jack, I don't think you are incorrect here. That may be the case for the older version of JASPER, but I was refering to the latest castro (CASPER/Astron) backend version, which is the one I have been working on since Feb 2016. That definitely still needs to have ROACH2 support added - at some p

Re: [casper] VHDL for ROACH2

2016-06-22 Thread Jack Hickish
On Wed, 22 Jun 2016, 03:53 Adam Isaacson, wrote: > Hi Jack and Andrea, > > I have tested the JASPER tool flow (matlab/python hybrid) on SNAP (no > hardware, just compiling) and we are in the process of testing on skarab. > We still have a lot more testing to do, so there may be bugs - you have >

Re: [casper] VHDL for ROACH2

2016-06-22 Thread Adam Isaacson
Hi Jack and Andrea, I have tested the JASPER tool flow (matlab/python hybrid) on SNAP (no hardware, just compiling) and we are in the process of testing on skarab. We still have a lot more testing to do, so there may be bugs - you have been warned. There is currently no support for ROACH2 or rathe

Re: [casper] VHDL for ROACH2

2016-06-21 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi andrea, developing everything exclusively in VHDL for a casper board is hard, as jack pointed out. but there's a way that is fairly easy, perhaps you already know, where you could develop most of your code in VHDL or Verilog, but you'd still need a bit of simulink to wrap your code: it's fair

Re: [casper] VHDL for ROACH2

2016-06-21 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Andrea, cc-ing maillist, since I don't think you're the only one to do (or want to do) this, What you are suggesting is absolutely technically possible, though (as much as I dislike simulink), I'd think really hard before going through with it. Note also, if you don't use the toolflow, you beco