This is awesome work, guys! We're excited about these new boards. John
> Hi All. > > ROACH-2 development and testing has gone well over the last two months. At > this point we have tested the two prototype boards and are happy that > everything works. While there were a number of minor issues, we were able > to > get everything functioning with a few blue wires and a steady hand. The > only > item untested is the DRAM, for which I blame Xilinx's trigger happy memory > interface group. Work will now start on fixing the various issues. > > Have a look at the wiki page for all the latest details and pics: > http://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/ROACH2 > > There is a particularly nice image of the board with two CX4 mezzanine > cards > attached (and working!): > http://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Image:Roach2_rev0_2xcx4mezz.jpg > > For those who are particularly interested, we are planning to have a > telecon > next week Wednesday to discuss the hardware fixes, changes and the way > forward. This will happen at the regular ROACH telecon time. I'll post > these > details a little later. > > Kind regards, > David > > -- > David George > Karoo Array Telescope > Tel: +27 11 442-2434 >
