I am not a matlab/simulink guru, but I can certainly take a look. However I
do need to check with Caltech/JPL to see if they allow me to contribute to
open source projects.

~Jason


On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Jason Manley <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's a good point. Most of our blocks have a simulation input (ADC, XAUI)
> but not the 10GbE. I haven't missed it myself, but can appreciate its use.
>
> Are you volunteering to add it? :)
>
> Jason
>
>
> On 01 Jul 2009, at 15:33, Jason Zheng wrote:
>
>  Hi Jason,
>>
>> Thanks for that explanation. Short of simulating a full-fledged computer
>> network, is there a way to "send" a UDP packet to the simulation model as a
>> stimulus? I'd imagine a back-end matlab function, once called, toggles the
>> rx_valid port. Something like that?
>>
>> ~Jason
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Jason Manley <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> Hi Jason
>>
>> Yes, you have the right of it. The Simulink yellow block 10GbE core is a
>> black hole into an ethernet cloud. We don't try to model an entire
>> multi-board system, but rather just the design at single board level.
>>
>> Modelling networks is a complicated affair and entire software suites have
>> been written to try'n address the issue. We have not broached it yet :)
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>> On 01 Jul 2009, at 15:03, Jason Zheng wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is the first time I'm posting to this mailing list, so allow me to
>> introduce myself. My name is Jason Zheng, and I am an FPGA design engineer
>> at JPL. A couple of weeks ago I attended the CASPER workshop at JPL, and
>> have started to play with the CASPER libraries. My main interest is to
>> infuse CASPER cores into the instrument design at JPL.
>>
>> I've been playing with the 10GE UDP core for a while, and took a look at
>> the VHDL source code. Comparing the simulink model with the VHDL source
>> code, I noticed that the simulink model hid the physical interface
>> (XAUI_XXX) from CASPER users. The simulink model only shows the internal
>> datapath ports and the LED outputs. It doesn't seem obvious to me how to run
>> a simulink simulation with the UDP core fully modeling a computer network.
>> Am I missing some key information? Or is the UDP core meant to be a black
>> hole/hose only?
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Jason Zheng
>>
>>
>>
>

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