i don't know much about xblocks, so can't add much to jack's comments, except:
about a dozen years ago chris dick and others at xilinx recommended casper use xblocks, so hong chen tried it out, and ported several of the casper dsp blocks. i think it worked well, and hong chen liked xblocks, but it didn't catch on in the casper community. not sure why. best wishes, dan On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 1:39 PM Jack Hickish <jackhick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Franco, > > I don't think there's any reason not to use xblocks. Someone can > correct me if I'm wrong. > > Several years ago there was a quest to move the whole casper library > to xblocks -- https://github.com/casper-astro/xblocks_devel/ -- but it > never seemed to get traction and the original libraries won over. I > suspect had the project been more aggressive about just replacing the > casper libraries it would have caught on. > > Cheers > Jack > > On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 at 12:34, Franco <francocuro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dear Casperites, > > > > I've recently been playing around with the creation of block libraries > and I found out about Xilinx's API for programmatic model creation > (xBlock). I find it particularly convenient because you don't have to > explicitly position the blocks, as the software does all the positioning > for you, and for what I tested the results are pretty nice. > > > > However when I checked in the CASPER library, only a few blocks are > created using xBlock, and moreover, some blocks where re-implemented from > xBlock to standard Matlab block scripting. > > > > So my question is: is there any reason why I should avoid using xBlock? > The only inconvenient I have had with it for now is that you have to > install some additional libraries in Linux to make it work, which I didn't > find it documented anywhere. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Franco Curotto > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CACBfcEmKHeDGr5ny5HH2ruqvHgYr-VbNbyyPjpJz5eR1C-JaRA%40mail.gmail.com > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CAG1GKSn%2Bgy-f4HFRXYsNAoheHDJxYA_EzFcXyxUgwnM_STxWtA%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CAGHS_vGWWsG8y9RShzBaji3-3B5wD8Gd6K-gdOL-_jwsR8j%3DHg%40mail.gmail.com.
