On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote: > Timothy Normand Miller wrote: > > > I plan on driving down on Tuesday 23rd but no time set yet. If > > > the hardware is in Copenhagen I could make it there sooner. > > > > IIRC, it's in Copenhagen. I'll let Petter give you details privately. > > Great - I could pick it up and experi^Wprepare better if Petter lets me. > > It would really help to grab the board in Copenhagen this weekend and > not have to wait until I get to Berlin. > > > > Alas, I do this part and the synthesis under Windows. > > Well, I have a Windows system, but.. > > > > (1) Synthesize for the XP10. This requires the "free" Lattice tools. > > ..it seems that I need ispLEVER PRO for XP, and that's a subscription > license. ispLEVER Starter which is the free download doesn't come > with Synplify.
That explains all this stuff they put me through to get it involving an export license. I can get it for free. Blah! I'm going to have to see what I can do here. > > > > > (2) Program the XP10. You need the Lattice tool for this and a > > JTAG cable. > > On the board, I see these labels on the header: + G I O S C > > Fairly standard JTAG, I would have to build one of these. I can > manage that. > > > > (2) Synthesize for the S3. This requires the commercial version of ISE. > > But we have a bitfile that we can mail you. > > I grabbed mod.bit. Thanks! > > > > (3) Program the S3. We have a program for Linux in the repo for > > this. > > Should be fine as long as XP10 can be bootstrapped properly. > > > > (4) Build the BIOS. The bugs in this process should be worked out. > > Make /opt world writable, and this will go smoother. Mark can help > > with that. > > I grabbed rom.bin. Thanks! > > > > (5) Program the BIOS. Another tool in the repo. > > Where does it go? I have a GALEP-5 rather competent programmer and I > know a lot about flash programming. I have plenty of hardware around > that I could hack something up with, worst case. No. As long as the XP10 is programmed, you just have to use our tool from the OGP SVN. Go to www.opengraphics.org and scroll to the bottom of the page for a link to the repo. It also appears that there are no headers for it anyhow. > > > > > There isn't documentation on how to do this synthesis, and can't > > think of all of the things you need to know. Start with the XP10 > > top level and start bringing in modules from that directory and I > > think just the pci directory until all of the dependencies are > > satisfied. There is a constraints file in there, and it's very > > important. _IF_ you are going to do this, start on it sooner > > rather than later in case we forgot to check something in. > > I've given up on XP10 synthesis since I can't get ispLEVER PRO. Let me see what I can manage... > > > > //Peter > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project
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