Also potentially confusing for us new users is that the example rfsoc starts file < https://github.com/casper-astro/tutorials_devel/blob/main/rfsoc/startsg.local.example> incorrectly sets JASPER_BACKEND=vivado
Jason On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 7:04 AM Jason Gallicchio <[email protected]> wrote: > I too was stuck on this for at least a day. I had JASPER_BACKEND=vivado > from the previous tutorial or from < > https://casper-toolflow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/Configuring-the-Toolflow.html> > and the rfsoc getting started tutorial doesn't really call attention to > this change. > > Even just a comment in the tutorial would help like : > export JASPER_BACKEND=vitis # use vitis rather than vivado to build both > .fpg and .dtbo for RFSoC > > Jason > > > On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 1:14 AM Jonathon Kocz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Cedric and Nhung, >> >> A couple of things to check: >> >> 1) Have you updated the startsg.local file with the paths for creating >> the .dtbo files? >> >> You'll need to set the JASPER_BACKEND to vitis also (e.g): >> >> JASPER_BACKEND=vitisXLNX_DT_REPO_PATH=</path/to>/sandbox/xilinx/device-tree-xlnx >> >> >> The dtbo file will not be generated without this (see "Toolflow Setup" >> https://casper-toolflow.readthedocs.io/projects/tutorials/en/latest/tutorials/rfsoc/tut_getting_started.html >> ) >> >> 2) For populating the ADC information, try the "get_system_information" >> call (fpga.get_system_information() or fpga.get_system_information('<your >> fpg file>')) >> >> Cheers, >> Jonathon >> >> On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 at 08:02, Cedric Viou <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> We are starting to use ADCs with our RFSoC4x2 and we encounter 2 related >>> (?) problems. >>> >>> First, the tutorials says that we should pay attention to the generation >>> of a .dtbo by Vivado. >>> We can't find it after building the tutorials (and not in the >>> jasper/vivado logs). That was ok for tutorial 1 (RFSoC Platform ... >>> Overview), however this seems to be mandatory for tutorial 2 (RFDC >>> interface). >>> Where (and how) is this supposed to be created? >>> >>> Then, to make some progress, we tried to use prebuilt .fpg and .dtbo >>> from the github repository to start to use it anyway, but when the fpga is >>> programmed with tut_rfdc, we can play with the counter and adder part, BUT >>> we can't get information (configure, or use) about the ADC: my_RFSoC.adcs >>> returns []. Only my_RFSoC.listdev() returns a list of strings that >>> contains 'rfdc', but we can't do anything with it. >>> >>> Any idea about what we are doing wrong? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Cedric and Nhung >>> >>> >>> >>> ###Tutorial devel >>> commit 26fce95d9f965d7b5f5bb7c9251ca096b53272a6 (HEAD -> main, >>> origin/main, origin/HEAD) >>> Merge: 644f5da 81a21a1 >>> Author: Mitch Burnett <[email protected]> >>> Date: Thu Oct 6 17:31:31 2022 -0600 >>> >>> >>> ###mlib delvel >>> commit 7f187b32133697bfdacc4fb122e9575e33acb705 (HEAD -> m2021a, >>> origin/m2021a, origin/HEAD) >>> Merge: 110926427 d86acbcb8 >>> Author: J. Kocz <[email protected]> >>> Date: Tue Oct 25 09:46:08 2022 -0700 >>> >>> Matlab: R2021a >>> Vivado: v2021.1 (64-bit) >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Cedric Viou <[email protected]> >>> >>> Ingénieur de recherche >>> >>> Observatoire Radioastronomique de Nançay, >>> Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Univ. Orléans, >>> OSUC, >>> 18330 Nançay, France >>> http://www.obs-nancay.fr >>> >>> phone : +33 (0) 248 51 8609 >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "[email protected]" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/4a5cd752-ce08-9b9e-4dad-af139e9bea95%40obs-nancay.fr >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "[email protected]" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CAPU71P_Tp6ZE9%2B%3D0enyWVkeSUrxy0xTfTVy-W9ksqKndAZyhyg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CAPU71P_Tp6ZE9%2B%3D0enyWVkeSUrxy0xTfTVy-W9ksqKndAZyhyg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CAFOBgPVF_-5gwL0mq%3DvTHNG_JTfzsAGPuErp9Fod0Ng504RuKg%40mail.gmail.com.
