[casper] casper.berkeley.edu maintenance

2017-06-20 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi all, casper.berkeley.edu will be down from around midday on Sunday 25th June until ~9am Monday morning (Pacific time), owing to maintenance at Berkeley's Space Science Lab. Sorry for the inconvenience, Jack -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "caspe

Re: [casper] Options for reading slow data throughput from ROACH2

2017-06-20 Thread Jack Hickish
g > flow execution...gmake: *** [__xps/system_routed] Error 1ERROR:EDK - > Error while running "gmake -f system.make bits".: XPS failed.* > > Any idea what I could be doing wrong? > Has anyone worked with that "yellow block" recently? > Is there any example availa

Re: [casper] Options for reading slow data throughput from ROACH2

2017-06-22 Thread Jack Hickish
CPU Rx" option requires further selection in the > configuration panel to work properly. i.e.: I am configuring the block > wrong, or the "yellow block" has a problem. > > If it is of any help, I am using mlib_devel master branch commit > 225aa9ed21aa914078546d2256c56f77f9

Re: [casper] Options for reading slow data throughput from ROACH2

2017-06-22 Thread Jack Hickish
This should be fixed in commit https://github.com/casper-astro/mlib_devel/commit/0c3f3349e0ea5b135015f247cdae3f1b71af8c86 Let me know if you have any problems. Thanks for the error report, Jack On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 at 12:46 Jack Hickish wrote: > Hi Xavier, > > Yeah, that's a bu

Re: [casper] OPB Address Space Overlap when using DRAM

2017-06-26 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Adam, Some months ago I tried to get the ddr in the casper-astro library working, using code provided by people on this list. Needless to say, I failed. I'm not sure what was wrong, but my spare time to debug got exhausted, and I haven't looked at this since. However, for your particular probl

Re: [casper] Trouble compiling tutorial 1

2017-06-28 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Colin, I don't think many people are supporting windows, though there was an email from a few hours ago -- https://www.mail-archive.com/casper@lists.berkeley.edu/msg06862.html -- which had a link to a windows-friendly repo version. Perhaps this would be useful to you. Jack On Wed, 28 Jun 2017

Re: [casper] Problem in CASPER snap package (raw data acquisition)

2017-06-28 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Xavier, I believe all the "snap" blocks have been deprecated, in favour of the newer "snapshot" block, which has integration in the software control libraries. If you are having this problem in a collaboration supplied model (it sound like you're doing tut2?) it will be updated in due course pr

Re: [casper] Options for reading slow data throughput from ROACH2

2017-06-28 Thread Jack Hickish
these > interfaces work and I feel I am missing something. > > thanks, > XB > > > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:46 PM Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Hi Xavier, >> >> Yeah, that's a bug. I'll have a fix shortly, but for now I would just >> l

Re: [casper] QDR Help / Timing Diagram

2017-07-05 Thread Jack Hickish
On Wed, Jul 5, 2017, 6:56 AM Schoenwald, Adam J. (GSFC-5640) < adam.schoenw...@nasa.gov> wrote: > Hi All, > > I’ve abandoned my attempt to use the DRAM for now and moved on to QDR. > > I’m somewhat confused by the wiki at https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Qdr > . > > > > The “issuing commands sect

Re: [casper] QDR Help / Timing Diagram

2017-07-05 Thread Jack Hickish
ical Engineer > Office: 301.286.4175 | Cell & Text: 631-241-0003 > > > > -Original Message- > From: Jason Manley [mailto:jman...@ska.ac.za] > Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2017 10:55 AM > To: Jack Hickish > Cc: Schoenwald, Adam J. (G

Re: [casper] Trouble calibrating ADC 5G V2.0 DMUX1:1

2017-07-28 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Xavier, At 2.5GHz sampling frequency you might need to calibrate each IO lane individually, rather than just sweeping the global clock phase. I don't know where you're getting your calibration code from, but if you have a calibrate_all_delays method (like at https://github.com/jack-h/adc_tests/

Re: [casper] Glitches in ROACH2/MUSIC board ADC time streams

2017-08-03 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Sam, I'm not familiar with the music board, but I wonder if it would benefit from tuning the clock vs data skew on the adc->fpga links to tune the data capture for reliability. Are you coming to the CASPER workshop? If so I suggest bringing a music board and maybe somebody can donate some time

Re: [casper] Glitches in ROACH2/MUSIC board ADC time streams

2017-08-03 Thread Jack Hickish
ck, > > Would that be akin to the calibration routine which was written for the > ADC5G? I will be at the workshop, and can definitely bring a test setup. > > Thanks, > Sam > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Hi Sam, >> >> I

Re: [casper] contact

2017-08-09 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Beatriz, Welcome to the CASPER mail list! There is no formal membership of the collaboration. Whatever you are using CASPER hardware or software for, this mail list is the place to post questions, get help, or announce things you've built or are willing to share. Having said that, manufacture

Re: [casper] 10 GbE SPF+ to 1 GbE RJ45 adapter

2017-08-10 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Xavier, Using an adapter might be possible in principle, but it definitely won't work out the box. It's probably about three orders of magnitude more design effort to get this working vs using the on-board 1gbe :) Sorry! Jack On Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 1:33 PM Xavier Bosch wrote: > Ryan, > Thank

Re: [casper] gen_xps fails

2017-08-25 Thread Jack Hickish
Weird. I'm guessing that is a software register? if you select the block that's throwing the error, then in matlab type "update_casper_block(gcb)" (which will delete that block and replace it with a fresh copy from the library) does that help at all. Cheers Jack On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 at 04:21 Heyst

Re: [casper] Re: using two ADC, reg.

2017-09-01 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Anshu, To add to John's comments -- this isn't an "error" in the sense there's anything wrong with your code or the tools. It's a failure of the Xilinx placer/router to find a way of implementing your design which will run at the speed you requested (250 MHz(?)). Probably these are specific par

[casper] Developer Mail List

2017-09-19 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi all, In the aftermath of the workshop, there is going to be a fair bit of development to the CASPER website, documentation, software, and tools. To avoid spamming the list, I've just created a new mail list: casper-...@lists.berkeley.edu for announcements for that may interest developers (sched

[casper] Re: XAUI : Initialization commands cannot be evaluated

2017-10-09 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Indrajit, In would appear a file was declared deprecated and removed in a previous commit. I've re-added this file in the casper-astro roach2 branch -- https://github.com/casper-astro/mlib_devel/tree/roach2 It appears there is also an issue with some IP core having an uppercase name, which I'm

[casper] Re: XAUI : Initialization commands cannot be evaluated

2017-10-09 Thread Jack Hickish
u need. I've no idea if XAUI ever worked on ROACH2 with CX4 cards Cheers Jack On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 at 15:47 Jack Hickish wrote: > Hi Indrajit, > > In would appear a file was declared deprecated and removed in a previous > commit. I've re-added this file in the casper-as

Re: [casper] ROACH1 Programming issues

2017-10-12 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Mugundhan, Is the boffile that fails to program executable? I.e., if you log into the roach and run "ls -la /boffiles/" do the working and not-working boffiles have the asme permissions. (I don't actually know if roach1 still requires boffiles to be executable, but it used to, so maybe it's wor

Re: [casper] ROACH1 Programming issues

2017-10-12 Thread Jack Hickish
t; > Thank to you and James :) > > Regards, > > Mugundhan > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Hi Mugundhan, >> >> Is the boffile that fails to program executable? I.e., if you log into >> the roach and run "ls -la /bo

Re: [casper] Compiling 32 ADC channels in ROACH-2 with accumulating brams

2017-10-31 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Vijay, If you scroll up through the compile output do you see another, more helpful, error. As a guess, is it possible that your capture RAMs are so deep that you've used up all the memory on the chip? Cheers Jack On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 at 08:43 Vijay Kumar wrote: > Hello Casperites, > I need

Re: [casper] Compiling 32 ADC channels in ROACH-2 with accumulating brams

2017-10-31 Thread Jack Hickish
in the bram size limits. Moreover, I > am able to successfully compile the design using 16 blocks. > > > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Hi Vijay, >> >> If you scroll up through the compile output do you see another, more >&g

Re: [casper] missing "cosin" block inside fft_wideband_real

2017-10-31 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Carl, What branch / git hash of mlib_devel are you using? Cheers Jack On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 at 13:40 Felten, Carl (382F) wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am trying to generate an HDL Netlist of a design that includes the > fft_wideband_real block. I get an error that “initialization commands > cannot b

Re: [casper] Compiling 32 ADC channels in ROACH-2 with accumulating brams

2017-11-01 Thread Jack Hickish
7; as > prefix. >An address value with no prefix is assumed to be a decimal number. > WARNING:EDK - IPNAME: opb_bram_if_cntlr, INSTANCE: adc16_snap_h - ADDRESS >PARAMETER C_HIGHADDR has 20-bit value. Mpd specifies 32-bit value - >/home/indrajit/Downloads/sbp_32_2/XPS_RO

Re: [casper] missing "cosin" block inside fft_wideband_real

2017-11-01 Thread Jack Hickish
he coeff_gen block get erased > when I try to Generate: > > > > *From:* Jack Hickish [mailto:jackhick...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 31, 2017 1:48 PM > *To:* casper@lists.berkeley.edu > *Subject:* Re: [casper] missing "cosin" block inside fft_wideband_real

Re: [casper] missing "cosin" block inside fft_wideband_real

2017-11-02 Thread Jack Hickish
On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 at 10:51 Felten, Carl (382F) wrote: > Looks like that works. > > > > Thanks Jack! > > > > *From:* Jack Hickish [mailto:jackhick...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 1, 2017 4:18 PM > > > *To:* casper@lists.berkeley.edu >

[casper] casper.berkeley.edu is down.

2017-11-15 Thread Jack Hickish
Working on getting it back up. Sorry for the inconvenience. Jack -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.

[casper] Re: casper.berkeley.edu is down. -- BACK UP!

2017-11-16 Thread Jack Hickish
Website/wiki back up now (thanks Jeff Cobb!). Cheers Jack On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 at 16:07 Jack Hickish wrote: > Working on getting it back up. Sorry for the inconvenience. > > Jack > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.be

[casper] Cheap Arista switch!

2017-12-04 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi all, Just a heads up in case anyone is in need of a 32-port 40GbE switch. The Arista 7050QX-32 is super-cheap on ebay eg. https://www.ebay.com/itm/FIRE-SALE-Arista-DCS-7050QX-32-R-32x-Port-40G-QSFP-Layer-3-Switch-10G-Switch/272949806199?epid=662262969&hash=item3f8d138477:g:DtQAAOSwlyJaFaZ0 h

[casper] Fwd: Berkeley SETI Research Center undergraduate research internships, summer 2018

2017-12-04 Thread Jack Hickish
More spam from me (sorry not sorry). The Berkeley SETI group is a major user and developer of CASPER stuff, and I'm sure could find uses for the skills of undergrad CASPERites. Cheers J -- Forwarded message - From: Steve Croft Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 at 14:43 Subject: Berkeley SETI

[casper] Berkeley CASPER group

2017-12-05 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi CASPERites, Here at UC Berkeley we are in the process of putting together some job adverts for CASPER research positions at UC Berkeley. We are hoping to advertise positions for those with batchelors, masters, or doctoral degrees to help develop next-gen CASPER tools and software/hardware infra

Re: [casper] Berkeley CASPER group

2017-12-07 Thread Jack Hickish
cores – > i.e. JESD204B interface..) and #3 (testing new hardware). I would be > interested in the “ working remotely” option below. > > Thanks > > Raoul > > > > > > *From:* Jack Hickish [mailto:jackhick...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 05, 2017 10:4

Re: [casper] Dealing with extreme RFI

2017-12-07 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Xavier, For what it's worth, our SNAP2 collaborators in China made an FMC card with the 12 bit version of the ASIAA ADC chip. This might be a reasonable starting point if you don't want to go to wild with JESD. The post-Virtex6 version of the toolflow (i.e., that used by SNAP / SKARAB) began l

Re: [casper] unknown error

2018-01-03 Thread Jack Hickish
If you're using Ubuntu, you might want to check the tweaks at https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14.x_and_Matlab_2012b, which include the dash vs bash issue Dave mentioned. Cheers Jack On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 at 19:16 David MacMahon wrote: > Hi, Roberto, > > I suspect that your

Re: [casper] casperfpga using

2018-01-05 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi pei xin, The short answer is, "yes". But there's clearly some work to be done on making the error handling cleaner. After those warnings, does the CasperFpga instance actually work? The first warning is the client attempting to connect using the microblaze interface (for SNAPs without RPIs) and

Re: [CASS SPAM]Re: [casper] casperfpga using

2018-01-05 Thread Jack Hickish
ave me "True" when I ran > "fpga.is_connected()". But it launched an error when I loaded the .fpg file. > fpga.upload_to_ram_and_program('snap_tut_intro.fpg') > RuntimeError: progremote request(Request to client snap failed.) on host > snap failed > > Best wishes, &

Re: [casper] Writing calibrated data to QDR of ROACH2

2018-01-29 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Homin, No-one replied to this, so i'll bite. In principle you could do this, but there is no canned way to obtain/save/reload the calibrations. They are implemented by stepping some MMCMs (rather than a register containing fixed offsets) so you'd have to count the steps during calibration, and

Re: [casper] ROACH2 4-element correlator compilation error

2018-01-29 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Bela, You might try increasing the Java heap size - https://www.mail-archive.com/casper@lists.berkeley.edu/msg04642.html - that's been known to help in some cases. Cheers Jack On Mon, Jan 29, 2018, 11:50 PM James Smith wrote: > So updating the diagram at the moment produces no error, and yo

Re: [casper] ROACH2 4-element correlator compilation error

2018-02-05 Thread Jack Hickish
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 1:23 PM, Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Hi Bela, >> >> You might try increasing the Java heap size - >> https://www.mail-archive.com/casper@lists.berkeley.edu/msg04642.html - >> that's been known to help in some cases. >> >&g

Re: [casper] dac mkid spi problem

2018-02-20 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Paolo, If I'm reading the code correctly -- https://github.com/casper-astro/mlib_devel/blob/roach2/xps_library/%40xps_adc_mkid/xps_adc_mkid.m -- I believe that none of the SPI pins are driven. I have no idea whether any of these pins are pulled in any particular direction on the hardware since

[casper] FFT biplex_core block

2018-02-21 Thread Jack Hickish
Howdy, Partly motivated by a search for RAM savings, and partly for fun, I'm looking through the innards of the fft_biplex_real_4x block. Can someone tell me, using short words and/or pictures, what the the relationship between the inputs (pol1, pol2) and the outputs (out1, out2) on the biplex_cor

Re: [casper] FFT biplex_core block

2018-02-21 Thread Jack Hickish
irst N/2 clocks out > both output ports, even channels on top (in bit reversed order) and odd on > bottom (also bit reversed order). Pol2 outputs follow for the next N/2 > clocks, same order. > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 6:04 PM Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Howdy, >>

Re: [casper] FFT biplex_core block

2018-02-21 Thread Jack Hickish
biplex fft algorithm: > https://www.amazon.com/Multirate-Digital-Signal-Processing-Crochiere/dp/0136051626 > > I agree with Aaron's memory of the output ordering. > > Glenn > > On Feb 21, 2018 18:04, "Jack Hickish" wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> P

Re: [casper] FFT biplex_core block

2018-02-21 Thread Jack Hickish
ive inputs simultaneously. > > Dave > > On Feb 21, 2018, at 18:04, Jack Hickish wrote: > > Howdy, > > Partly motivated by a search for RAM savings, and partly for fun, I'm > looking through the innards of the fft_biplex_real_4x block. Can someone > tell me, using

Re: [casper] dac mkid spi problem

2018-02-22 Thread Jack Hickish
I am quite use to verilog and SPI (I did something > similar for an I2C interface) but I can't say the same for OPB bus, > power-pc's and so on... it will take me a while I guess. I will contact you > when I will be on it. > > Cheers, > Paolo > > 2018-02-20 19:57

Re: [casper] dac mkid spi problem

2018-02-22 Thread Jack Hickish
lt;2>" LOC = N15 | IOSTANDARD = LVCMOS33 | S | PULLUP; > > NET "eth_rx_d<3>" LOC = P18 | IOSTANDARD = LVCMOS33 | S | PULLUP; > > > > Given that the ROACH flow is mostly automated, this last option might be > the simplest. Just add the SPI constrai

[casper] Fiber transceiver suppliers

2018-02-22 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi CASPER folk, I'm in the midst of buying lots of 10/40GbE transceivers for HERA, and thought I'd throw out some names of suppliers who we use / made attractive quotes. Fiberstore (fs.com) has been our go-to for a while for optics purchases, and we've had good luck (admittedly with some early te

Re: [casper] FFT biplex_core block

2018-02-23 Thread Jack Hickish
d pol2 being presented > at the respective inputs simultaneously. > > Dave > > On Feb 21, 2018, at 18:04, Jack Hickish wrote: > > Howdy, > > Partly motivated by a search for RAM savings, and partly for fun, I'm > looking through the innards of the fft_biplex_real_4x block

Re: [casper] UltraScale+ 100G Ethernet Configuration

2018-02-26 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Arash, It's awesome that you're doing this. I only have experience bringing up the 10GbE core on SNAP, but a few things you might try are: - Make sure all the (many!) clocks are running at the correct speed -- easy to misconfigure. - Check and double check resets - Setting the transceivers int

[casper] Re: Spectrum shifted (Beamformer)

2018-03-10 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Rolando, This sort of channel number offset issue usually indicates a misalignment between the sync pulse in the design and data where your data goes through an operation that has some latency, and this latency isn't compensated for in the sync signal. One clue is that there is usually a spike

[casper] Re: Spectrum shifted (Beamformer)

2018-03-10 Thread Jack Hickish
there any way to find the place and value of the latency that I must > remove or add, to the synchronization pulse inside my design? > > Regards > > Rolando > > > 2018-03-10 18:47 GMT-06:00 Jack Hickish : > >> Hi Rolando, >> >> This sort of channe

Re: [casper] Quick prototype platform

2018-03-15 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Karl, On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 at 21:59 Karl Warnick wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a non-astronomical comms antenna array project that does not have > detailed specs for bandwidth and number of antenna elements. I need to > build a programmable platform that I can use for multichannel sampling > and

Re: [casper] ROACH2 Toolflow Repository Version

2018-03-21 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Andrea, On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 at 13:22 Andrea Mattana wrote: > Hi all, > > after many months of working on another board (SKA TPM for LFAA) today I'm > back to a project using the ROACH-1 but I figured out that my "longterm" > Matlab R2009b license expired, therefore I decided to try to install

[casper] CASPER in the cloud: a survey

2018-03-22 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi all, tl;dr -- We're trying to figure out if there is any interest in free, cloud-hosted CASPER tools: please fill out the survey at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeetuYWr3WPnUDGjdTznEFVptY_Y0mFXaTsKrDEAEAKSBVRbA/viewform?usp=sf_link -- For as long as I can remember, people have

Re: [casper] ROACH2 Toolflow Repository Version

2018-03-23 Thread Jack Hickish
ption in OFFER/ACK: 28 > *** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 28 > DHCP client bound to address 192.168.10.121 > Using ppc_4xx_eth0 device > TFTP from server 192.168.10.5; our IP address is 192.168.10.121 > Filename '/roach2/boot/uImage-r2borph3'. > Load address: 0x400

Re: [casper] ROACH2 Toolflow Repository Version

2018-03-28 Thread Jack Hickish
t; infrastructure for the last workshop or who is going to do for the coming > > workshop. > > > > I will update on progress as well maybe changing the subject of the this > > thread that can be considered closed ;) > > > > Cheers, > > Andrea > &

Re: [casper] Black box compilation error using Casper XPS flow

2018-04-01 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Vijay, Are you trying to black box a system generator model, or plain verilog/vhdl? In the latter case, any error in the HDL syntax or issues with port declarations will probably cause the tools to implode like you see. Do you still get this error with the latest (14.7) of the xilinx tools, an

Re: [casper] KAT-7 KatADC on ROACH2

2018-04-19 Thread Jack Hickish
_write_register(self.fpga, 0, addr[i], > val[i]) > corr.katadc.spi_write_register(self.fpga, 1, addr[i], > val[i]) > > Note that at higher clock speeds, the value of the second register is > changed (commented third line), as determined by Jack Hickish. If you want >

Re: [casper] KAT-7 KatADC on ROACH2

2018-04-19 Thread Jack Hickish
On 04/19/2018 11:20 AM, Jack Hickish wrote: > > The clock should trigger capture of the values on the data lines when > > they are stable, so putting the clock edges out of phase with the data > > transitions makes sense. Having said that, the controller HDL may or > > may

Re: [casper] KAT-7 KatADC on ROACH2

2018-04-19 Thread Jack Hickish
case? Cheers Jack On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 at 14:59 Tom Kuiper wrote: > On 04/19/2018 11:52 AM, Jack Hickish wrote: > > Thinking about this a moment longer -- I don't think an incorrect > > clock phase will be related to reported board clock problems. You can > > comp

Re: [casper] Unable to run SmartXplorer inside CASPER toolflow

2018-04-22 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Franco, Late reply, but did you ever get to the bottom of this? When the compile finished did it appear to generate a new .bin file? If so maybe the binary is fine and it's just the bin->bof generation that's broken. Cheers Jack On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 at 12:43 Franco Curotto wrote: > Dear all,

Re: [casper] Unable to run SmartXplorer inside CASPER toolflow

2018-04-22 Thread Jack Hickish
ectly. > > Thanks anyways. > > Franco > > > Original Message > Subject: Re: [casper] Unable to run SmartXplorer inside CASPER toolflow > From: Jack Hickish > To: casper@lists.berkeley.edu > CC: > > > Hi Franco, > > Late reply, but di

Re: [casper] Programming the SNAP board via the 10GbE interface.

2018-05-22 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Jake, That's interesting, I don't think I've seen this failure mode before. If you plug a mini usb connector into the SNAP, you can read debug messages over this port, using it as an 8N1 115200 baud serial interface. If you have a xilinx programmer, you could also burn the flash manually with v

Re: [casper] Programming the SNAP board via the 10GbE interface.

2018-05-22 Thread Jack Hickish
nit FAIL > # JAM starting > using ethernet core gbe_port0 > MAC 0x004089411302 > IP NM GW > link is UP > FPGA at 33.6 C [ms 1] > FPGA at 33.6 C [ms 2] > ... > > > Cheers, > Jake Jones. > > On Tue

Re: [casper] Programming the SNAP board via the 10GbE interface.

2018-05-23 Thread Jack Hickish
erver ready >> but there is no network traffic or logs suggesting that this IP was >> obtained by the DHCP server. Nonetheless, I tried connecting to it using >> this IP but had no success there either. >> fpga = casperfpga.CasperFpga('169.254.3.19', port=69)

Re: [casper] Programming the SNAP board via the 10GbE interface.

2018-05-25 Thread Jack Hickish
ing this new golden image the SNAP board > obtained an IP address and I was able to talk to it with no problems. > > Cheers, > Jake Jones. > > > > > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Hi Jake, >> >> I've seen that

Another archive test

2018-08-05 Thread Jack Hickish
sorry again

Re: [casper] 100G switch

2018-08-13 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Ramesh, Late response to your email, but, did you investigate using that switch with one of the free non-iCOS operating systems (for those of us who are super-cheap)? Cheers Jack On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 at 08:12 Ramesh Karuppusamy wrote: > Hi Homin, > > We have had very good experience with the

Re: [casper] Inverse of fft_wideband_real

2018-08-13 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Alex, I don't know if there's a way to avoid generating the full spectra prior to taking the fft (I suspect if there is, it just pushes the buffering somewhere else), but it certainly seems like you should be able to do FFTs of two streams, A, B, in parallel. I would think this would work by (a

Re: [casper] Inverse of fft_wideband_real

2018-08-14 Thread Jack Hickish
which might be useful. > > As a sidelight, I’ve been trying to find a venerable paper I recall Aaron > Parsons et al. wrote on the CASPER Biplex FFT. I can’t seem to find the > one I recall, this is the closest I have come, but doesn’t have the > singular focus on the FFT I recall in an

Re: [casper] Raspberry pi 3 b+ support for SNAP board

2018-08-30 Thread Jack Hickish
Sounds like you do have the official image I'll upload it to the wiki! tcpborphserver is a server which runs on the RPI and speaks katcp (the protocol the roaches use). It basically receives katcp read/write/program commands over a TCP socket and then actions them on the FPGA using the chip's

[casper] Job opening at UC Berkeley

2018-09-14 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi All, There is currently an opening for an Assistant Researcher in UC Berkeley's Radio Astronomy Lab "in the area of radio astronomy instrumentation, computer systems and networks, and data analysis." This is *not* specifically a CASPER position (the advert does not come from me) though there w

Re: [casper] Tutorial 1 SNAP Error Part not found

2018-09-18 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi David, I'll also add that later this week I'll be vetting all the snap tutorials for the workshop, so if there is an issue hopefully by the end of the week it'll be fixed. Cheers Jack On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, 5:02 pm Brian Bradford, wrote: > Hi David, > > Since you are new to CASPER, I would r

[casper] CASPER developer mail list

2018-10-02 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi All, Thanks to all those who made the trip to China to attend our annual workshop. I hope you've all have made it safely back home. I was reminded at the workshop to re-advertise the CASPER developer mail list. This email list is used to organize monthly developer meetings (to be chaired by Am

Re: [casper] ADC5G on SNAP

2018-10-08 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Peix Xin, That should work. What mlib_devel are you using? Is your ADC card a demux 1 version? What ADC yellow block settings? What snap MSSGE block settings (should be clocking from adc0_clk) Are you applying a clock to the ADC card - you can't use the on-board synthesiser with an external A

Re: [CASS SPAM]Re: [casper] ADC5G on SNAP

2018-10-09 Thread Jack Hickish
m? > And the mlib_devel is the same one we used for Crab design. > > The ADC yellow block and MSSGE block settings see attach 2 and 3 . > > The clock signal is from Valon 5008 and inject to the Clock SMA connector > of ADC. > > Best wishes, > Pei Xin > > > *From:

[casper] HERA Job @ Berkeley

2018-10-09 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi all, Another job is available in Berkeley's Radio Astronomy Lab which people on this list might be interest in. See details below. Thanks Jack Postdoctoral Scholar - Radio Astronomy Lab. https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/apply/JPF01918 The Radio Astronomy lab (RAL) at the University of Califor

Re: Re: [CASS SPAM]Re: [casper] ADC5G on SNAP

2018-10-16 Thread Jack Hickish
6-(0)991-3689471 <+86%20991%20368%209471> > 传真(Fax): +86-(0)991-3838628 <+86%20991%20383%208628> > == > > > *From:* Jack Hickish > *Date:* 2018-10-09 21:26 > *To:* pei...@xao.ac.cn > *CC:* casper > *Subject:* Re: [CASS SPAM]Re: [casper] ADC5G on SNAP > > Hi

Re: Re: [CASS SPAM]Re: [casper] ADC5G on SNAP

2018-10-16 Thread Jack Hickish
at 18:37 Jack Hickish wrote: > Hi Pei Xin, > > What mlib_devel library are you using? > > Are you using any python code to configure your ADC after programming the > FPGA? > > Cheers > Jack > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 23:08 pei...@xao.ac.cn wrote: > >> Hi

Re: [casper] CASPER Workshop 2018 Photos

2018-10-17 Thread Jack Hickish
Seconded -- thanks for all the hard work, Ran & organizing committees. On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 02:26 Colm Bracken wrote: > Dear Ran, > > Thank you so much for sharing the lovely pictures from CASPER 2018. > Also, thank you once more to yourself and the rest of the LOC and the SOC > for such an en

Re: [casper] SNAP Board Cooling Solution

2018-10-17 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Jake, I don't think anyone has done quite what you're planning. In HERA we have no FPGA fans and only external airflow, but in our case we place the SNAP boards in RFI-enclosures, with the FPGA thermally coupled to the enclosure case via aluminium blocks and thermal compound. Our experience wit

Re: Re: [CASS SPAM]Re: [casper] ADC5G on SNAP

2018-10-17 Thread Jack Hickish
;+86%20991%20368%209471> > 传真(Fax): +86-(0)991-3838628 <+86%20991%20383%208628> > == > > > *From:* Jack Hickish > *Date:* 2018-10-17 09:37 > *To:* pei...@xao.ac.cn > *CC:* casper > *Subject:* Re: Re: [CASS SPAM]Re: [casper] ADC5G on SNAP > > Hi Pei Xin, > &g

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[casper] Re: SNAP external clock inputs

2018-10-19 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Nitish, Hope you don't mind, but I'm taking this back on the list. Your understanding of the PPS signal is correct. If you with to use the on-board SNAP ADCs, you have two clocking options, both of which require an external signal to be provided. 1) Provide a timing reference (usually, but n

Re: [casper] Efficient complex multiplication with DSP48E1

2018-10-29 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Franco, Thanks for this. I don't *think* such a block exists in the library, though I could be wrong. One thing high on the agenda is to reorganize the libraries in mlib_devel to make it easier to add blocks in without git conflicts. Hopefully we (cough, Brian) will get round to this soon[ish].

Re: [casper] SNAP xdc file

2018-11-29 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Nitish, Because you mentioned SDRAM, I'm assuming you're talking about SNAP 2 ( https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/SNAP2). For SNAP2, you'll find some constraints (although not in xdc format) here -- https://github.com/shlean/mlib_devel/blob/master/jasper_library/platforms/snap2.yaml @Lin Shu

[casper] Heads Up: casper website change

2018-12-04 Thread Jack Hickish
Howdy all, You may have noticed that the CASPER wiki/website server, which lives in a closet in Berkeley, is becoming increasingly unreliable. In the interests of making a more stable site, with lower sys-admin overhead, we'll be slowly migrating to a cloud-hosted service. The first step in this

[casper] Community code of conduct

2018-12-05 Thread Jack Hickish
Dear CASPERites, The CASPER collaboration has, over more than a decade, created a friendly, vibrant, and successful community or astronomers and engineers. Many of us have CASPER to thank for our instruments, scientific papers, and careers. In the interests of making sure our collaboration is wel

[casper] ZCU111 RFSoC Characterization Memo

2018-12-06 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi All, Since many of you are interested in Xilinx's new RFSoC chips, please be aware that a memo about characterization of the ZCU111 RFSoC board ADC performance is available at https://casper.ssl.berkeley.edu/wiki/images/d/dc/Zcu118-memo.pdf . This memo was generously shared by Paul Roberts at

Re: [casper] Getting SNAP IP address

2018-12-11 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi David, What type of transceiver are you using on the snap, and which port are you using? Cheers Jack On Tue, 11 Dec 2018, 1:06 pm David Marsh, wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having a similar issue (to > https://www.mail-archive.com/casper@lists.berkeley.edu/msg07245.html) > when trying to progra

Re: [casper] Getting SNAP IP address

2018-12-12 Thread Jack Hickish
fixed in firmware. Sorry it's taking so long. On Tue, 11 Dec 2018, 2:13 pm David Marsh, wrote: > Jack, > > We are using the 10GbE SFP+ port P1 on the SNAPv1 board. The cable that we > have between the snap and the server is XFP-SFP+ > > Thanks, > David > > On T

Re: [casper] CASPER Arizona

2018-12-18 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Arash, Great work! I can probably send a SNAP or 2 your way on load if you think that'd be helpful. And/or I could probably get you a Red Pitaya? Also, I'm experimenting with cloud-hosted compile environments and am close-ish to having something here which might work. Is this something which

[casper] Fwd: [CFP] MathWorks Summer Research Internships

2019-01-07 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi CASPERites, Welcome to 2019. If anyone is interested in headed into the lion's den, see below. Cheers Jack -- Forwarded message - From: Pieter Mosterman Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 07:27 Subject: [CFP] MathWorks Summer Research Internships To: Dear All, My sincere apologies

Re: [casper] Broken links to CASPER Memos

2019-01-07 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Franco, Good catch, thanks -- try now. Cheers Jack On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 10:02 Franco wrote: > Hi all, > > I was searching for some memos in the CASPER wiki ( > https://casper.ssl.berkeley.edu/wiki/Memos) and I noticed that some of > the links are broken (they give me 404 Not Found Error).

Re: [casper] can not download .fpg file to ROACH2 by python

2019-01-12 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Zhang, Sorry for the late reply, your mail somehow went to my spam folder. Installing from https://github.com/casper-astro/casperfpga should work via: pip install -r requirements.txt python setup.py install For corr, our set up in berkeley uses using katcp 0.5.5 ( https://pypi.org/project/kat

[casper] VCU118 Support

2019-01-14 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi CASPERites, I know a few of you have been playing around with the VCU118 Virtex Ultrascale Plus dev board. For a while the toolflow has been able to compile designs for this board, but without any support for accessing the software registers / brams in the generated bitstream (making the toolfl

Re: [casper] VCU118 Support

2019-01-14 Thread Jack Hickish
brian ? > > dan > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 7:23 PM Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Hi CASPERites, >> >> I know a few of you have been playing around with the VCU118 Virtex >> Ultrascale Plus dev board. For a while the toolflow has been able to >

Re: [casper] VCU118 Support

2019-01-15 Thread Jack Hickish
_to_ram_and_program() caveat. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Adam Isaacson > > South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) > > Hardware Manager > > Cell: (+27) 825639602 > > Tel: (+27) 215067300 > > email: aisaac...@ska.ac.za > > &g

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