Re: [casper] Timing distribution over fiber

2015-05-06 Thread Jack Hickish
Jason, Mike, Jonathan, others!, White rabbit, and PTP are both pretty interesting. My suspicion is that it may end up being no more expensive and less worrysome (if not necessarily actually better) to distribute PPS/ some ref. clock directly, but HERA is a good excuse to investigate these

Re: [casper] Timing distribution over fiber

2015-05-06 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Bob, Sounds interesting -- for what it's worth, I've just learnt some fellow astronomers in Italy (Andrea Maccaferri at INAF's Medicina observatory) have built some PPS/refclk distribution systems based on the Avago fiber parts -- perhaps you might be interested in getting in touch with him...

Re: [casper] Timing distribution over fiber

2015-05-06 Thread Jack Hickish
On Wed, 6 May 2015 at 07:35 Johan Burger jbur...@ska.ac.za wrote: Hi there, Do you maybe have any idea of requirement specifications for the HERA's RF phase stability and time (?) - this might determine what technology could be appropriate. Hi Johan, Thanks for your response. We're

[casper] ??help??xps failed half when EDK

2015-05-06 Thread ??????
Dear casper, I made an easy .mdl file according to tutorial1, but when i run casper_xps, it comes out an error,shows below: XSG generation complete. # ## Copying base system ## # ## Copying custom IPs ##