Well done! Looking forward to playing with it...
K On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM, John Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > That's awesome, David. Can't wait for the first R-II Spectrometer... > We'll be waiting for more news! > > John > >> Hi All. >> >> As you may know a new CASPER board is in the pipeline called ROACH 2. >> The design is centred around a Xilinx Virtex-6 SX475T FPGA. It should >> be, roughly, a 4-times improvement in terms of overall performance >> over ROACH 1. >> >> Well, the board arrived from assembly just under a week ago and I have >> been working at trying to get it to do stuff (other than emit smoke). >> The board now boots into uboot, we can JTAG in an FPGA bitstream and >> the PowerPC can successfully "talk" to the FPGA. The FTDI USB to JTAG >> + serial works like a charm (which is lucky because neither the Xilinx >> and Macraigor programmer play along with the JTAG chain). >> >> So hopefully progress will be good over the coming weeks so we can >> start making lots of these board soon;) >> >> The wiki page is hopelessly out of date, but includes some more >> information about ROACH 2: >> http://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/ROACH2 >> >> I have also uploaded a video of the board in action for your >> enjoyment. You can view the video directly here: >> http://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/images/d/d1/Roach2_knight_rider.mpg >> >> Expect more updates on the casper lists and the wiki soon. >> >> All the best, >> David >> >> -- >> David George >> Karoo Array Telescope >> Tel: +27 11 442-2434 >> Email: [email protected] >> > > > >
