Hi Mark,
Firstly, welcome to the CASPER community.
The SKARAB has multiple images stored in Flash. These are meant only used
for the initial FPGA image at start up and a fall back image. This is a
Xilinx standard method of configuration. You should be using the
upload_to_ram_and_program function. This function uploads the your compiled
fpg file to the SDRAM and then triggers the Virtex to program itself from
the SDRAM. You will probably have overwritten the boot images. :(
import casperfpga
SKARAB_IP = '10.99.45.170'
SKARAB_FPG = 'skarab.fpg'
# skarab programming
skarab = casperfpga.CasperFpga(SKARAB_IP)
skarab.upload_to_ram_and_program(SKARAB_FPG)
Does the board come back after waiting some time?
Wesley New
South African SKA Project
+2721 506 7300
www.ska.ac.za
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Peryer, Mark A. <
mark.per...@cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After trying to reconfigure the flash memory on the Virtex7 FPGA with a
> new image, I am no longer able to connect to the SKARAB through casperfpga
> using the 1GigE port. When I enter the command fpga =
> casperfpga.SkarabFpga('169.254.128.213'), the following is output.
>
> DEBUG:casperfpga.casperfpga:169.254.128.213: now a CasperFpga
> DEBUG:casperfpga.skarab_fpga:Retransmit attempts: 0
> DEBUG:casperfpga.skarab_fpga:Waiting for response.
> DEBUG:casperfpga.skarab_fpga:No packet received: will retransmit
> DEBUG:casperfpga.skarab_fpga:Retransmit attempts: 1
> DEBUG:casperfpga.skarab_fpga:Waiting for response.
> DEBUG:casperfpga.skarab_fpga:No packet received: will retransmit
> DEBUG:casperfpga.skarab_fpga:Retransmit attempts: 2
> DEBUG:casperfpga.skarab_fpga:Waiting for response.
> DEBUG:casperfpga.skarab_fpga:No packet received: will retransmit
> ERROR:casperfpga.skarab_fpga:Socket timeout. Response packet not received.
>
> My thinking is that the firmware image loaded into the flash is corrupt
> and now the 1GigE port is disabled. Are these any other possible ways to
> load a firmware image into flash without using the 1GigE port, such as the
> USB port or JTAG header? If so, what would be the required procedure to do
> so?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Peryer
>
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