Hi Kim, We actually followed a recipe recommended by Jack Hickish, which worked first time. It involved cherry picking newer QDR bitcodes and software, and dropping them in to our build which is based on older libraries.
This is Jack’s email: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Jack Hickish <jackhick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In case it turns out to be useful, if you want to go to the software > calibration scheme, you'll want to replace your versions of the following > files with the ones from https://github.com/casper-astro/mlib_devel > > > > mlib_devel/xps_base/XPS_ROACH2_base/pcores/qdr_controller_v1_00_a > mlib_devel/xps_base/XPS_ROACH2_base/pcores/opb_qdr_sniffer_v1_00_a > mlib_devel/xps_library/@xps_qdr/ > > > In addition, you'll need to turn on the CPU interface in your simulink model. > > > > The calibration software is at > > mlib_devel/xps_sw_support/qdr/roach2/ > There's a readme in there, but let me know if you have questions. > > Good luck! > > > Jack > Our experience should probably be more widely published in case others can use it. cc list. Jonathan > On Jan 12, 2017, at 9:48 AM, Primiani, Rurik <rprimi...@cfa.harvard.edu> > wrote: > > Hi Kim, > > Adding Andre (though he is in the South Pole at the moment so may not be able > to respond) who actually set up the software QDR calibration routines for > SWARM. > > First off, most of the SWARM software that we use is available on our Github > page, specifically the following repository: > > https://github.com/sma-wideband/wideband_sw > > For the software QDR calibration we do not use casperfpga. I'm not 100% sure > where Andre got the code from but I believe he pulled out only the QDR cal > code from casperfpga and incorporated it into our software package. The > specific commit you can look at is 1da22ae9, the Github page for that is here: > > https://github.com/sma-wideband/wideband_sw/commit/1da22ae9 > > You may be able to use the SwarmQDR (defined in swarn/swarm/qdr.py) object > directly in your project with some modifications. Hope this helps. > > Best, > Rurik > > > > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 7:34 PM, Kim Guzzino <kguzz...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > Hi Rurick, > Long time . Happy new year. > > I was wondering what software you were using to cal the QDR's now. > I am also trying to get casperfpga to work. > Anyway if you have some scripts to do it, it would be helpful. > > Thanks, > Kim > > >
