Hi : I should make my statement more precise.
I have problems on Planahead V14.3 and V14.4. Couple of groups said that the V14.2 works fine. regards homin On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:14 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send casper mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/[email protected] > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of casper digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. PlanAhead 14.2 help (Haoxuan Zheng) > 2. More Tutorial 3 problems (Jason Castro) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:53:25 +0000 > From: Haoxuan Zheng <[email protected]> > Subject: [casper] PlanAhead 14.2 help > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > < > f5a6a735282c114199cd5f617dc370b46ac03...@oc11expo33.exchange.mit.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi CASPER, > We would like to use PlanAhead to help achieve timing closure in our > latest design where the failed route has >80% routing time. However the > PlanAhead software we have is version 14.2, which looks significantly > different from the example on CASPERwiki, > https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Speed_Optimization_with_PlanAhead. I > imported all the files generated from the failed casper_xps into PlanAhead > without issues, but I can't follow the first step in "Manually floorplan > the design" since I don't see a "more" button in Ctrl-F dialogue. Does > anyone has experience with PlanAhead 14.2 and would be so kind to offer > some help? > Thank you so much! > Jeff > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment scrubbed and removed. > HTML attachments are only available in MIME digests. > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:15:03 -0400 > From: Jason Castro <[email protected]> > Subject: [casper] More Tutorial 3 problems > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I recently upgraded my CASPER tools to the latest and greatest versions > (Xilinx 14.4 and Matlab 2012b) as well as the latest SKA-SA mlib_devel > libraries. As a sanity check I downloaded and recompiled tutorial 3 > from here: > > https://github.com/casper-astro/tutorials_devel/blob/master/tut3/tut3.slx > > I had to replace the even and odd BRAM blocks, but other than that it > appeared to compile just fine. However when I run the bof file I read > all zeros back from the even and odd registers. If I keep everything > else constant and just change the mlib_devel library to this branch > (http://astro.berkeley.edu/~davidm/mlib_devel.git/) I get a reasonable > spectrum out but with a peak that corresponds to the FPGA clock > frequency. If I use the precompiled bof file here > (https://github.com/casper-astro/tutorials_devel/blob/master/tut3/tut3.bof > ) > the FPGA clock frequency peak disappears. > > Can I get some assistance here? First off, it appears that the lastest > ska_sa libraries aren't compatible with the latest tutorial3 files. > Second does anyone know why I'd have clock frequency peaks from one > compile to the next? > > Thanks, > > Jason Castro > NRAO > > > > End of casper Digest, Vol 65, Issue 38 > ************************************** >
