Hi, Nimish, What error messages are you getting?
Thanks, Dave On Sep 24, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Nimish Sane wrote: > Hi all, > > A question related to this: > > Like Glenn, we never had Fixed point toolboxes (Fixed point Toolbox and > Simulink Fixed point) installed, and still were able to compile our > correlator designs using 11.5 and Matlab2009b. > > I recently upgraded to ISE 14.5 with Matlab 2012b as well as upgraded > libraries to the latest version of casper-astro/mlib_devel. Even in the > current installation, we do not have Fixed point toolboxes (names have > changed to Fixed-point designer Toolbox, Simulink Fixed-point as Jonathan has > mentioned). > > The current fft_wideband_real block has some differences compared to the > older version that I was using so far and it seems it now requires > Fixed-point Toolbox. I am getting errors that this particular toolbox has not > been installed. I am not sure if there are other blocks that give similar > errors. Does anyone have any experience with this and provide some insight as > to how to deal with this situation? > > Specifically, > (1) Is there any way to use the latest fft_wideband_real block without > Fixed-point Toolboxes? (Glenn, have you tried this?) > (2) Does one have to install both the Fixed-point toolboxes (Fixed-point > designer Toolbox, Simulink Fixed-point) or just the Fixed-point designer > Toolbox? > > (I have attached lists of toolboxes in our previous and current installation.) > > Thanks a lot, > > Nimish > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:20 PM, G Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > As one data point I'm successfully compiling designs w/o the fixed point > toolboxes. I haven't tried simulating a large design which is where it's > claimed to be needed with busses wider than 53 bits or whatever it is > > On Sep 17, 2013 7:15 PM, "Jonathan Weintroub" <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi fellow CASPERians, > > This is a question that comes up periodically. At SAO we are now paying full > fare for Matlab licenses so the cost impact of an imperfect understanding can > be significant. > > The latest MSSGE wiki page is: > > https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14.5_and_Matlab_2012b > > However this page does not mention Matlab optional components (historically > termed toolboxes and blocksets). > > There are clues in an earlier setup page: > > https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Toolflow_Setup > > from which it appears one needs something like: > > Fixed-Point Toolbox > > Signal Processing Blockset > > Signal Processing Toolbox > > Simulink Fixed Point > > > Each time I buy a new license I iterate on these components with the Matlab > distributer. The terminology changes year by year and I am currently being > quoted on the following components, in addition to the base Matlab and > Simulink distributions: > > SIGNAL PROCESSING TOOLBOX, V2013A > > SIMULINK FIXED POINT, V2012B > > DSP SYSTEM TOOLBOX, V2013A > > FIXED-POINT DESIGNER TOOLBOX, V2013A, > > (sorry about the all-caps which pasted in directly from the quotation). > > So it is still four components, but the names have changed. The term blockset > seems to have evolved out in favor of toolbox, one of the "signal > processing"s has morphed into "DSP", and the fixed point toolbox now has > "designer". Appropriately enough the price for this latter "designer" > component alone has more than doubled in a year to over $2k per seat. > > Having set the scene, my two questions are: > > 1. Are we ordering the right components? > > 2. Do we really need all these components? > (At one point I seem to recall hearing the fixed point stuff is to some > extent optional, though the ability to simulate properly at the Simulink > level is important to us.) > > Subject to confirmation from the tool flow experts, I will be happy to update > the wiki notes with current information. > > Thanks, > > Jonathan > > > > > > > > > > <installed-tools>
