Greeting Can any one point out the link to some small projects that use the Red Pitya board with the CASPER flow ? Regards Hien Vo Vietnamese German University
On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 9:59 PM Adam Isaacson <aisaac...@ska.ac.za> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > The toolflow is normally used with a Python virtual environment setup with > Python 3. The casperfpga tool (provides comms to the board) uses just > python 2.7. This is the way we use the toolflow and casperpfga at SARAO > (South African Radio Astronomy Observatory). We support the SKARAB and Red > Pitaya. There are Python 3 versions for casperfpga, but we haven't really > tested these on the SKARAB or Red Pitaya. > > I have been using Ubuntu 16.04LTS, but I know this also works on Ubuntu > 18.04LTS. I still need to test my SKARAB on Ubuntu 18.04LTS, which I will > do in the next couple of weeks. > > Here is some documentation to install the toolflow on your system and > explains the virtual environment: > > > https://casper-toolflow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/Installing-the-Toolflow.html > > Here is some documentation to install casperfpga on your system: > > > https://casper-toolflow.readthedocs.io/projects/casperfpga/en/latest/How-to-install-casperfpga.html > > Here are the ska-sa (SARAO) repos which has the latest for SKARAB and Red > Pitaya: > > 1) https://github.com/ska-sa/casperfpga/tree/devel (casperfpga) > 2) https://github.com/ska-sa/mlib_devel/tree/devel (toolflow) > > Here are the casper-astro repos, which the majority of the CASPER > community uses: > > 1) https://github.com/casper-astro/mlib_devel - this actually does work > with the SKARAB and Red Pitaya too. You still need a Python 3 virtual > environment if your default python package is 2.7. > 2) https://github.com/casper-astro/casperfpga - this should work with > SKARAB and Red Pitaya too (Python 2.7) > 3) https://github.com/casper-astro/casperfpga/tree/py3-merge - this works > with SNAP, but I haven't tested it on SKARAB or the Red Pitaya. It may work > on the Red Pitaya, but I believe there are still issues with SKARAB (Python > 3) > > I hope this helps! > > Kind regards, > > Adam Isaacson > South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) > Hardware Manager > Cell: (+27) 825639602 > Tel: (+27) 215067300 > email: aisaac...@ska.ac.za > > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 4:36 PM 'Kobesky, Jeffrey CIV USN NRL (5555) > Washington DC (USA)' via casper@lists.berkeley.edu < > casper@lists.berkeley.edu> wrote: > >> Hello CASPER, >> >> >> >> I’m installing tool flow and am confused about which python version to >> use for casperfpga. I have both python 2.7 and 3.6 on my machine. >> >> >> >> For my equipment (red pitaya and skarab) this link >> https://casper-toolflow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ says to use python3. >> But if I follow the steps in this link >> https://casper-toolflow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/How-to-install-casperfpga.html >> then casperfpga gets installed under the python 2.7 folder. >> >> >> >> This leads to errors (for example, I get error doing >> “casperfpga._version_” in ipython), but I think I can clear those errors by >> reconfiguring python versioning on my machine. >> >> >> >> For now, big picture questions are: Should we really be using python3 >> for casperfpga with red pitaya and skarab? If so is there a script >> available that would install casperfpga in the correct python3 folder? >> I’ve looked in the email archives but can’t find answers. >> >> >> >> Thanks! -- Jeff >> >> >> >> Jeffrey Kobesky >> >> Electronics Engineer >> >> Naval Research Laboratory >> >> O: (202) 404-7109 >> >> M: (443) 243-1554 >> >> >> >> -- >> 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/cfbc6d4fdd764eac96224b1df77016aa%40nrl.navy.mil >> <https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/cfbc6d4fdd764eac96224b1df77016aa%40nrl.navy.mil?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > 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/CADTJ%3DnHqgYbkB2eymR-Vf6k6Lsug-YS14TZfPYEMhZKBx-yMFw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CADTJ%3DnHqgYbkB2eymR-Vf6k6Lsug-YS14TZfPYEMhZKBx-yMFw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. 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