Hi Amit, Yes, I can confirm that no porting has been done regarding the SKARAB ADC here at SKA-SA. We are planning on holding a yellow block creation workshop here at SKA some time later this year - date TBC. The user can bring their hardware with firmware and get it running during the workshop.
I can confirm that the rest of the SKARAB is fully supported using the CASPER tools. The only other limitation, is that the CASPER tools are supporting only one 40GbE TX/RX link on the SKARAB. If you desire more than one link then it should not require much effort to update. We are chasing deadlines at the moment, so it is not possible for us to address the above at this time. Kind regards, Adam On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 12:16 PM, Clifford van Dyk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Amit > > Thanks, and Happy New Year to you too! > > I am fairly certain that no one has started porting the SKARAB ADC > firmware into a CASPER "yellow block" just yet. I would be happy to support > you on this. I don't see any limitations due to the new ADC interface. > > The Peralex-supplied JESD receiver core (included in the BSP) may need to > be adapted depending on your application (how the ADC is configured) - the > Peralex core is not currently a "generic" JESD core, rather it is designed > to receive JESD packets from the specific ADC configured with specific > mode/options (most notably output bandwidth). It may be easiest to start > porting this to yellow block directly first, and then parameterise/extend > the firmware/yellow block to support other ADC modes (decimation rates, DDC > bypass, etc) as needed. > > There are a few restrictions that you need to be aware of in terms of > bandwidth/resolution trade-off if you change the ADC modes, particularly > when bypassing the ADC's built-in DDCs. If you can give me an idea of how > you specifically intend to use the ADC (mode/bandwidth/frequency band), I > can perhaps offer you some further advice. > > Kind regards, > Clifford > > > > On 1/8/2018 10:30 AM, Amit Bansod wrote: > > Hi Clifford, > > Happy New Year! > > Thanks a lot for the BSP Package. I am going through the documentation now > and have one SKARAB with casper firmware and one with Peralex. > > I would be interested to develop a Casper "yellow block" for SKARAB since > most of our development is using CASPER toolflow. Do you know if anybody is > already working on it or if there are any limitations due to the new ADC > interface ? > > Regards, > Amit > > > On 20-Dec-17 7:15 PM, Clifford van Dyk wrote: > > Hi Amit > > Your Skarab would have been shipped with a firmware that supports DHCP on > all GbE interfaces and bootloading over 1GbE (only). It includes support > for the ADC mezzanine. You will probably need to use the Peralex BSP tools > to access and boot the Skarab over 1GbE, rather than the CASPER toolflow. > > If you would like to work with the CASPER tools, then you will need to > overwrite the Peralex boot image with the CASPER boot image. This will > provide additional support for booting the Skarab over 40GbE, but you will > loose support for the ADC. The ADC firmware is currently provided as HDL > code only-it has yet to be ported into a CASPER yellow block. > > I will pop by the office tomorrow to provide you with a link where you can > download the Peralex BSP. > > Kind regards, > Clifford > > On 20 Dec 2017 6:05 PM, "Amit Bansod" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> I am trying to boot SKARAB and the it gets stuck at "ARP ENTRY ID:0 >> IP:....". 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