Hi Jack

I'm using the latest mlib_devel on the ska-sa git repo (commit 0d5c582),
and I built against it, but with the changes of commit 72d879c.

JP

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Jack Hickish <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi JP,
>
> What mlib_devel are you using? Did you actually build against commit
> 72d879c? I noticed you emailed a link to my repository which I specifically
> tweaked for my higher (312MHz) work, which I'm sure breaks *everything* at
> 145.
>
> Cheers,
> Jack
>
> On Fri, 22 May 2015 at 06:41 Juan-Pierre Jansen van Rensburg <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to get the QDR on the ROACH-2 to work reliably at a clock
>> speed of a 145 MHz. I'm assuming this is possible, since it has been
>> pointed out in an earlier message
>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/casper%40lists.berkeley.edu/msg05736.html>
>> that the QDR should work above 120 MHz?
>>
>> I'm running the software calibration for the QDR (qdr_cal() in the qdr.py
>> script) and the calibration seems to be successful, however after the
>> calibration I write test patterns to the QDR but the data I read back is
>> incorrect. What is  strange is that it doesn't do it for all the test
>> patterns, mainly for the walking 0's and pseudo random numbers, and QDR0
>> and QDR1 seem to be the main culprits for failure. I also don't have any
>> QDR glitches at higher clock speeds (for instance at 200 MHz).
>>
>> I have been digging around and found this
>> <https://github.com/jack-h/mlib_devel/commits/ami-devel?page=8> possible
>> solution (see commit 72d879c). The REFCLK for the IDELATCTRL is set to a
>> 100 MHz instead of the recommended 200 MHz. I have tried this, but I still
>> get errors. I'm not sure if this is relevant but with this suggestion I
>> have only found errors so far on QDR1?
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> JP van Rensburg
>>
>>

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