Re: [casper] System Compatibility
Hi, Update It is possible to install Xilinx ISE 14.7 and MSSGE Toolflow set RHEL 7. The only doubt I have is on the USB cable drivers. Not sure if the drivers got installed successfully. Will have to test and see if they are working fine too. Thank you Regards, Vishwa On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Jack Hickish jackhick...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Vishwa, To add to what Danny said, while there will never be a Vivado flow for ROACH1/ROACH2, I've been using a vivado-based flow for the SNAP board, which is a kintex-7 platform. Some very limited information about how to obtain and run the flow, aimed at our local (in berkeley) SNAP users is available at https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/SNAP_Bringup Cheers, Jack On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 at 08:41 Danny Price dpr...@cfa.harvard.edu wrote: Hi Vishwa As far as I’m aware, Vivado does not support Virtex 5 or 6, so can’t be used for ROACH1 or ROACH2 designs. The Xilinx + Matlab stack is hard enough to get working on officially sanctioned distribution, so using RHEL7 will probably just give you stability issues and installation woes. For a compilation machine, stability is *by far* more important than having a newer OS. That said, I’m guessing that RHEL7 would probably work fine, and that the install process would essentially be the same. Only one way to find out… Regards Danny On Jul 1, 2015, at 11:17 AM, Vishwa Seneviratne mp...@zips.uakron.edu wrote: Hi, Has anyone tried installing Xilinx ISE 14.7 in RHEL 7? Is there a way to do so? Also, I wonder if Casper roach developers have plans to come up with a MSSGE toolflow set that support Vivado Design suite in near future since, Xilinx has discontinued developing Xilinx ISE. Very respectfully, Regards, Vishwa On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Mark Wagner m...@anown.netwrote: Hi Victor, It looks like you don't have your matlab path setup correctly. Have you checked out this page: https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14.x_and_Matlab_2012b Mark On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.comwrote: Thank you all for your support. After hearing from you, I decided to change my OS to Red Hat Workstation 6. Unfortunately, the bugs persisted. When I try to launch the System Generator on Simulink I receive this message: -- Error Evaluating 'OpenFcn' callback of Xilinx System Generator Block block (mask) 'untitled/ System Generator'. --Undefined variable com or class com.xilinx.sysgen.util.StrategyUtil.loadAllStrategyNames. Additionally, when I type sysgen at the terminal, I get this message: [ INFO ] XILINX_DSP environment variable does NOT coincide with $XILINX. Resetting... /opt/Xilinx/14.7/ISE_DS/ISE/sysgen/util/sysgen: line 1176: matlab: command not found How should I proceed at this point? I appreciate your attention, Victor Cardoso. PS: I'm running matlab 2012b, Xilinx ISE 14.7 and Red Hat Workstation 6.6. -- From: jsm...@ska.ac.za Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:11:47 +0200 Subject: Re: [casper] System Compatibility To: mwag...@ssl.berkeley.edu CC: victorcardoso...@hotmail.com; casper@lists.berkeley.edu Hi Victor, We used to use Ubuntu 14.04, and it kind of worked, but it wasn't stable. Switched to the most recent version of CentOS about a month ago and haven't had problems since. Xilinx v14.7, Matlab 2012b. Regards, James On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Mark Wagner mwag...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: Hi Victor, A list of supported operating systems is here on page 7: http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx14_5/irn.pdf If you need free, a much safer alternative to Ubuntu (but still unsupported) is CentOS 6.5, which is built from RHEL6 source packages. Mark On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.comwrote: Greetings, I am working with the ROACH 2 in order to implement the MUSIC project. I am having a lot of troubles to compile the Tutorial 1 (Introduction to Simulink) due to mismatch between Xilinx ISE 14.5 and my Operating System, Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to know if it's possible to run this example using Ubuntu. Otherwise, I can install Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.3, Matlab 12b and Xilinx 14.5 to run the codes. I look forward hearing from you. Best Regards, Victor Cardoso.
Re: [casper] System Compatibility
Hi Vishwa, To add to what Danny said, while there will never be a Vivado flow for ROACH1/ROACH2, I've been using a vivado-based flow for the SNAP board, which is a kintex-7 platform. Some very limited information about how to obtain and run the flow, aimed at our local (in berkeley) SNAP users is available at https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/SNAP_Bringup Cheers, Jack On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 at 08:41 Danny Price dpr...@cfa.harvard.edu wrote: Hi Vishwa As far as I’m aware, Vivado does not support Virtex 5 or 6, so can’t be used for ROACH1 or ROACH2 designs. The Xilinx + Matlab stack is hard enough to get working on officially sanctioned distribution, so using RHEL7 will probably just give you stability issues and installation woes. For a compilation machine, stability is *by far* more important than having a newer OS. That said, I’m guessing that RHEL7 would probably work fine, and that the install process would essentially be the same. Only one way to find out… Regards Danny On Jul 1, 2015, at 11:17 AM, Vishwa Seneviratne mp...@zips.uakron.edu wrote: Hi, Has anyone tried installing Xilinx ISE 14.7 in RHEL 7? Is there a way to do so? Also, I wonder if Casper roach developers have plans to come up with a MSSGE toolflow set that support Vivado Design suite in near future since, Xilinx has discontinued developing Xilinx ISE. Very respectfully, Regards, Vishwa On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Mark Wagner m...@anown.netwrote: Hi Victor, It looks like you don't have your matlab path setup correctly. Have you checked out this page: https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14.x_and_Matlab_2012b Mark On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.comwrote: Thank you all for your support. After hearing from you, I decided to change my OS to Red Hat Workstation 6. Unfortunately, the bugs persisted. When I try to launch the System Generator on Simulink I receive this message: -- Error Evaluating 'OpenFcn' callback of Xilinx System Generator Block block (mask) 'untitled/ System Generator'. --Undefined variable com or class com.xilinx.sysgen.util.StrategyUtil.loadAllStrategyNames. Additionally, when I type sysgen at the terminal, I get this message: [ INFO ] XILINX_DSP environment variable does NOT coincide with $XILINX. Resetting... /opt/Xilinx/14.7/ISE_DS/ISE/sysgen/util/sysgen: line 1176: matlab: command not found How should I proceed at this point? I appreciate your attention, Victor Cardoso. PS: I'm running matlab 2012b, Xilinx ISE 14.7 and Red Hat Workstation 6.6. -- From: jsm...@ska.ac.za Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:11:47 +0200 Subject: Re: [casper] System Compatibility To: mwag...@ssl.berkeley.edu CC: victorcardoso...@hotmail.com; casper@lists.berkeley.edu Hi Victor, We used to use Ubuntu 14.04, and it kind of worked, but it wasn't stable. Switched to the most recent version of CentOS about a month ago and haven't had problems since. Xilinx v14.7, Matlab 2012b. Regards, James On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Mark Wagner mwag...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: Hi Victor, A list of supported operating systems is here on page 7: http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx14_5/irn.pdf If you need free, a much safer alternative to Ubuntu (but still unsupported) is CentOS 6.5, which is built from RHEL6 source packages. Mark On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.comwrote: Greetings, I am working with the ROACH 2 in order to implement the MUSIC project. I am having a lot of troubles to compile the Tutorial 1 (Introduction to Simulink) due to mismatch between Xilinx ISE 14.5 and my Operating System, Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to know if it's possible to run this example using Ubuntu. Otherwise, I can install Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.3, Matlab 12b and Xilinx 14.5 to run the codes. I look forward hearing from you. Best Regards, Victor Cardoso.
Re: [casper] System Compatibility
Hi Vishwa As far as I’m aware, Vivado does not support Virtex 5 or 6, so can’t be used for ROACH1 or ROACH2 designs. The Xilinx + Matlab stack is hard enough to get working on officially sanctioned distribution, so using RHEL7 will probably just give you stability issues and installation woes. For a compilation machine, stability is *by far* more important than having a newer OS. That said, I’m guessing that RHEL7 would probably work fine, and that the install process would essentially be the same. Only one way to find out… Regards Danny On Jul 1, 2015, at 11:17 AM, Vishwa Seneviratne mp...@zips.uakron.edu wrote: Hi, Has anyone tried installing Xilinx ISE 14.7 in RHEL 7? Is there a way to do so? Also, I wonder if Casper roach developers have plans to come up with a MSSGE toolflow set that support Vivado Design suite in near future since, Xilinx has discontinued developing Xilinx ISE. Very respectfully, Regards, Vishwa On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Mark Wagner m...@anown.net wrote: Hi Victor, It looks like you don't have your matlab path setup correctly. Have you checked out this page: https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14.x_and_Matlab_2012b Mark On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.com wrote: Thank you all for your support. After hearing from you, I decided to change my OS to Red Hat Workstation 6. Unfortunately, the bugs persisted. When I try to launch the System Generator on Simulink I receive this message:-- Error Evaluating 'OpenFcn' callback of Xilinx System Generator Block block (mask) 'untitled/ System Generator'. --Undefined variable com or class com.xilinx.sysgen.util.StrategyUtil.loadAllStrategyNames. Additionally, when I type sysgen at the terminal, I get this message: [ INFO ] XILINX_DSP environment variable does NOT coincide with $XILINX. Resetting... /opt/Xilinx/14.7/ISE_DS/ISE/sysgen/util/sysgen: line 1176: matlab: command not found How should I proceed at this point? I appreciate your attention, Victor Cardoso. PS: I'm running matlab 2012b, Xilinx ISE 14.7 and Red Hat Workstation 6.6. From: jsm...@ska.ac.za Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:11:47 +0200 Subject: Re: [casper] System Compatibility To: mwag...@ssl.berkeley.edu CC: victorcardoso...@hotmail.com ; casper@lists.berkeley.edu Hi Victor, We used to use Ubuntu 14.04, and it kind of worked, but it wasn't stable. Switched to the most recent version of CentOS about a month ago and haven't had problems since. Xilinx v14.7, Matlab 2012b. Regards, James On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Mark Wagner mwag...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: Hi Victor, A list of supported operating systems is here on page 7: http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx14_5/irn.pdf If you need free, a much safer alternative to Ubuntu (but still unsupported) is CentOS 6.5, which is built from RHEL6 source packages. Mark On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.com wrote: Greetings, I am working with the ROACH 2 in order to implement the MUSIC project. I am having a lot of troubles to compile the Tutorial 1 (Introduction to Simulink) due to mismatch between Xilinx ISE 14.5 and my Operating System, Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to know if it's possible to run this example using Ubuntu. Otherwise, I can install Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.3, Matlab 12b and Xilinx 14.5 to run the codes. I look forward hearing from you. Best Regards, Victor Cardoso.
Re: [casper] System Compatibility
Hi, Has anyone tried installing Xilinx ISE 14.7 in RHEL 7? Is there a way to do so? Also, I wonder if Casper roach developers have plans to come up with a MSSGE toolflow set that support Vivado Design suite in near future since, Xilinx has discontinued developing Xilinx ISE. Very respectfully, Regards, Vishwa On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Mark Wagner m...@anown.net wrote: Hi Victor, It looks like you don't have your matlab path setup correctly. Have you checked out this page: https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14.x_and_Matlab_2012b Mark On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.com wrote: Thank you all for your support. After hearing from you, I decided to change my OS to Red Hat Workstation 6. Unfortunately, the bugs persisted. When I try to launch the System Generator on Simulink I receive this message: -- Error Evaluating 'OpenFcn' callback of Xilinx System Generator Block block (mask) 'untitled/ System Generator'. --Undefined variable com or class com.xilinx.sysgen.util.StrategyUtil.loadAllStrategyNames. Additionally, when I type sysgen at the terminal, I get this message: [ INFO ] XILINX_DSP environment variable does NOT coincide with $XILINX. Resetting... /opt/Xilinx/14.7/ISE_DS/ISE/sysgen/util/sysgen: line 1176: matlab: command not found How should I proceed at this point? I appreciate your attention, Victor Cardoso. PS: I'm running matlab 2012b, Xilinx ISE 14.7 and Red Hat Workstation 6.6. -- From: jsm...@ska.ac.za Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:11:47 +0200 Subject: Re: [casper] System Compatibility To: mwag...@ssl.berkeley.edu CC: victorcardoso...@hotmail.com; casper@lists.berkeley.edu Hi Victor, We used to use Ubuntu 14.04, and it kind of worked, but it wasn't stable. Switched to the most recent version of CentOS about a month ago and haven't had problems since. Xilinx v14.7, Matlab 2012b. Regards, James On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Mark Wagner mwag...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: Hi Victor, A list of supported operating systems is here on page 7: http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx14_5/irn.pdf If you need free, a much safer alternative to Ubuntu (but still unsupported) is CentOS 6.5, which is built from RHEL6 source packages. Mark On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.com wrote: Greetings, I am working with the ROACH 2 in order to implement the MUSIC project. I am having a lot of troubles to compile the Tutorial 1 (Introduction to Simulink) due to mismatch between Xilinx ISE 14.5 and my Operating System, Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to know if it's possible to run this example using Ubuntu. Otherwise, I can install Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.3, Matlab 12b and Xilinx 14.5 to run the codes. I look forward hearing from you. Best Regards, Victor Cardoso.
Re: [casper] System Compatibility
Thank you all for your support. After hearing from you, I decided to change my OS to Red Hat Workstation 6. Unfortunately, the bugs persisted. When I try to launch the System Generator on Simulink I receive this message:-- Error Evaluating 'OpenFcn' callback of Xilinx System Generator Block block (mask) 'untitled/ System Generator'. --Undefined variable com or class com.xilinx.sysgen.util.StrategyUtil.loadAllStrategyNames. Additionally, when I type sysgen at the terminal, I get this message:[ INFO ] XILINX_DSP environment variable does NOT coincide with $XILINX. Resetting... /opt/Xilinx/14.7/ISE_DS/ISE/sysgen/util/sysgen: line 1176: matlab: command not found How should I proceed at this point? I appreciate your attention,Victor Cardoso. PS: I'm running matlab 2012b, Xilinx ISE 14.7 and Red Hat Workstation 6.6. From: jsm...@ska.ac.za Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:11:47 +0200 Subject: Re: [casper] System Compatibility To: mwag...@ssl.berkeley.edu CC: victorcardoso...@hotmail.com; casper@lists.berkeley.edu Hi Victor, We used to use Ubuntu 14.04, and it kind of worked, but it wasn't stable. Switched to the most recent version of CentOS about a month ago and haven't had problems since. Xilinx v14.7, Matlab 2012b. Regards,James On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Mark Wagner mwag...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: Hi Victor, A list of supported operating systems is here on page 7: http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx14_5/irn.pdf If you need free, a much safer alternative to Ubuntu (but still unsupported) is CentOS 6.5, which is built from RHEL6 source packages. Mark On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.com wrote: Greetings, I am working with the ROACH 2 in order to implement the MUSIC project. I am having a lot of troubles to compile the Tutorial 1 (Introduction to Simulink) due to mismatch between Xilinx ISE 14.5 and my Operating System, Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to know if it's possible to run this example using Ubuntu. Otherwise, I can install Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.3, Matlab 12b and Xilinx 14.5 to run the codes. I look forward hearing from you. Best Regards, Victor Cardoso.
Re: [casper] System Compatibility
Hi Victor, It looks like you don't have your matlab path setup correctly. Have you checked out this page: https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14.x_and_Matlab_2012b Mark On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.com wrote: Thank you all for your support. After hearing from you, I decided to change my OS to Red Hat Workstation 6. Unfortunately, the bugs persisted. When I try to launch the System Generator on Simulink I receive this message: -- Error Evaluating 'OpenFcn' callback of Xilinx System Generator Block block (mask) 'untitled/ System Generator'. --Undefined variable com or class com.xilinx.sysgen.util.StrategyUtil.loadAllStrategyNames. Additionally, when I type sysgen at the terminal, I get this message: [ INFO ] XILINX_DSP environment variable does NOT coincide with $XILINX. Resetting... /opt/Xilinx/14.7/ISE_DS/ISE/sysgen/util/sysgen: line 1176: matlab: command not found How should I proceed at this point? I appreciate your attention, Victor Cardoso. PS: I'm running matlab 2012b, Xilinx ISE 14.7 and Red Hat Workstation 6.6. -- From: jsm...@ska.ac.za Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:11:47 +0200 Subject: Re: [casper] System Compatibility To: mwag...@ssl.berkeley.edu CC: victorcardoso...@hotmail.com; casper@lists.berkeley.edu Hi Victor, We used to use Ubuntu 14.04, and it kind of worked, but it wasn't stable. Switched to the most recent version of CentOS about a month ago and haven't had problems since. Xilinx v14.7, Matlab 2012b. Regards, James On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Mark Wagner mwag...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: Hi Victor, A list of supported operating systems is here on page 7: http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx14_5/irn.pdf If you need free, a much safer alternative to Ubuntu (but still unsupported) is CentOS 6.5, which is built from RHEL6 source packages. Mark On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.com wrote: Greetings, I am working with the ROACH 2 in order to implement the MUSIC project. I am having a lot of troubles to compile the Tutorial 1 (Introduction to Simulink) due to mismatch between Xilinx ISE 14.5 and my Operating System, Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to know if it's possible to run this example using Ubuntu. Otherwise, I can install Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.3, Matlab 12b and Xilinx 14.5 to run the codes. I look forward hearing from you. Best Regards, Victor Cardoso.
[casper] System Compatibility
Greetings, I am working with the ROACH 2 in order to implement the MUSIC project. I am having a lot of troubles to compile the Tutorial 1 (Introduction to Simulink) due to mismatch between Xilinx ISE 14.5 and my Operating System, Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to know if it's possible to run this example using Ubuntu. Otherwise, I can install Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.3, Matlab 12b and Xilinx 14.5 to run the codes. I look forward hearing from you. Best Regards, Victor Cardoso.
Re: [casper] System Compatibility
Hi Victor, I strongly recommend using Xilinx's 14.7 release. Some people use Ubuntu 12.04 -- see https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14.x_and_Matlab_2012b -- but as Dan says, life might be easier with a supported operating system... Cheers, Jack On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 at 13:01 Dan Werthimer d...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: hi victor, i urge people to only use operating systems supported by xilinx: i think right now, that means windows7 pro, redhat enterprise linux 5 or 6, or suse enterprise linux. several casperites have tried to use non-supported linux operating systems for casper work. sometimes this can work fine for particular appliciations, sometimes it doesn't work. xilinx will not provide any support or answer any questions if you use a non-supported operating system. and we've seen be subtle bugs without any reported error messages with a non-supported operating system. one time we found the casper FFT didn't work for sizes over 2^13 points - there was no error message - it just computed the FFT incorrectly on the FPGA - the simulation worked fine... when we switched to redhat, the problem went away... best wishes, dan On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.com wrote: Greetings, I am working with the ROACH 2 in order to implement the MUSIC project. I am having a lot of troubles to compile the Tutorial 1 (Introduction to Simulink) due to mismatch between Xilinx ISE 14.5 and my Operating System, Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to know if it's possible to run this example using Ubuntu. Otherwise, I can install Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.3, Matlab 12b and Xilinx 14.5 to run the codes. I look forward hearing from you. Best Regards, Victor Cardoso.
Re: [casper] System Compatibility
hi victor, i urge people to only use operating systems supported by xilinx: i think right now, that means windows7 pro, redhat enterprise linux 5 or 6, or suse enterprise linux. several casperites have tried to use non-supported linux operating systems for casper work. sometimes this can work fine for particular appliciations, sometimes it doesn't work. xilinx will not provide any support or answer any questions if you use a non-supported operating system. and we've seen be subtle bugs without any reported error messages with a non-supported operating system. one time we found the casper FFT didn't work for sizes over 2^13 points - there was no error message - it just computed the FFT incorrectly on the FPGA - the simulation worked fine... when we switched to redhat, the problem went away... best wishes, dan On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.com wrote: Greetings, I am working with the ROACH 2 in order to implement the MUSIC project. I am having a lot of troubles to compile the Tutorial 1 (Introduction to Simulink) due to mismatch between Xilinx ISE 14.5 and my Operating System, Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to know if it's possible to run this example using Ubuntu. Otherwise, I can install Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.3, Matlab 12b and Xilinx 14.5 to run the codes. I look forward hearing from you. Best Regards, Victor Cardoso.
Re: [casper] System Compatibility
We use 12.04 + 14.7 without issues here at Penn. Brad Dober Ph.D. Candidate Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Pennsylvania Cell: 262-949-4668 On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Jack Hickish jackhick...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Victor, I strongly recommend using Xilinx's 14.7 release. Some people use Ubuntu 12.04 -- see https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14.x_and_Matlab_2012b -- but as Dan says, life might be easier with a supported operating system... Cheers, Jack On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 at 13:01 Dan Werthimer d...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: hi victor, i urge people to only use operating systems supported by xilinx: i think right now, that means windows7 pro, redhat enterprise linux 5 or 6, or suse enterprise linux. several casperites have tried to use non-supported linux operating systems for casper work. sometimes this can work fine for particular appliciations, sometimes it doesn't work. xilinx will not provide any support or answer any questions if you use a non-supported operating system. and we've seen be subtle bugs without any reported error messages with a non-supported operating system. one time we found the casper FFT didn't work for sizes over 2^13 points - there was no error message - it just computed the FFT incorrectly on the FPGA - the simulation worked fine... when we switched to redhat, the problem went away... best wishes, dan On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.com wrote: Greetings, I am working with the ROACH 2 in order to implement the MUSIC project. I am having a lot of troubles to compile the Tutorial 1 (Introduction to Simulink) due to mismatch between Xilinx ISE 14.5 and my Operating System, Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to know if it's possible to run this example using Ubuntu. Otherwise, I can install Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.3, Matlab 12b and Xilinx 14.5 to run the codes. I look forward hearing from you. Best Regards, Victor Cardoso.
Re: [casper] System Compatibility
Hi Victor, We used to use Ubuntu 14.04, and it kind of worked, but it wasn't stable. Switched to the most recent version of CentOS about a month ago and haven't had problems since. Xilinx v14.7, Matlab 2012b. Regards, James On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Mark Wagner mwag...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: Hi Victor, A list of supported operating systems is here on page 7: http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx14_5/irn.pdf If you need free, a much safer alternative to Ubuntu (but still unsupported) is CentOS 6.5, which is built from RHEL6 source packages. Mark On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.com wrote: Greetings, I am working with the ROACH 2 in order to implement the MUSIC project. I am having a lot of troubles to compile the Tutorial 1 (Introduction to Simulink) due to mismatch between Xilinx ISE 14.5 and my Operating System, Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to know if it's possible to run this example using Ubuntu. Otherwise, I can install Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.3, Matlab 12b and Xilinx 14.5 to run the codes. I look forward hearing from you. Best Regards, Victor Cardoso.
Re: [casper] System Compatibility
Hi Victor, A list of supported operating systems is here on page 7: http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx14_5/irn.pdf If you need free, a much safer alternative to Ubuntu (but still unsupported) is CentOS 6.5, which is built from RHEL6 source packages. Mark On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Victor Cardoso victorcardoso...@hotmail.com wrote: Greetings, I am working with the ROACH 2 in order to implement the MUSIC project. I am having a lot of troubles to compile the Tutorial 1 (Introduction to Simulink) due to mismatch between Xilinx ISE 14.5 and my Operating System, Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to know if it's possible to run this example using Ubuntu. Otherwise, I can install Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.3, Matlab 12b and Xilinx 14.5 to run the codes. I look forward hearing from you. Best Regards, Victor Cardoso.
