Re: {SPAM?} Re: [casper] "No Blocks" in CASPER DSP blockset

2023-09-21 Thread Jason Ray
quot; Take care, Glenn On Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 06:02 Jason Ray wrote: Hi All, I have a question about our simulink libraries at GBO. The backstory is that we installed a version (casper_astro_soak_test for Xilinx 14.7) of the casper tools many years ago during VEGAS develo

[casper] "No Blocks" in CASPER DSP blockset

2023-09-14 Thread Jason Ray
Hi All, I have a question about our simulink libraries at GBO.  The backstory is that we installed a version (casper_astro_soak_test for Xilinx 14.7) of the casper tools many years ago during VEGAS development.  It has always worked fine until sometime in the past year or so, I can't seem to l

Re: [casper] RA Instruments using CASPER hardware and tools {External}

2022-08-31 Thread Jason Ray
Morag, Although not currently in service, for completeness "GUPPY" was actually spelled "GUPPI" Thanks, Jason On 8/31/2022 6:53 AM, Morag Brown wrote: Ciao dalla Sardegna, collaborati! I'm hoping to put together a more up-to-date list of instruments that have been built using CASPER hardwa

[casper] roach2 fault thresholds?

2018-04-19 Thread Jason Ray
Hi All, Does anyone know what the fault led and/or shutdown thresholds are for the roach2 board? I found this table for roach1: https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Roach_monitor_and_management_subsystem But I can't find anything similar for roach2. Also, does anyone know if there's a log kept o

Re: [casper] ROACH-2 power requirements

2017-12-08 Thread Jason Ray
John, We use these picoPSU modules exclusively for powering our roach2 systems.  They have 120W capacity and are powered from +12VDC. http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/it.A/id.417/.f So far they've been great. Good luck! Jason On 12/8/2017 1:18 PM, John D. Sahr wrote: I have an application for

Re: [casper] ROACH2 won't power on

2017-05-08 Thread Jason Ray
Hi Glenn, A while back, I repaired a roach2 problem that had similar symptoms. Its probably not terribly likely that yours has the same problem, but I thought I'd share in case... The short story is that a capacitor (C163) failed and I could measure ~220ohms across it. This particular cap

Re: [casper] ROACH1 serial to USB connection

2017-03-31 Thread Jason Ray
> Thanks for all the help > > Heystek > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Jason Ray mailto:j...@nrao.edu>> wrote: > Heystek, > > Is this a known good roach1 board? Could it have been bri

Re: [casper] xport IP address

2014-12-04 Thread Jason Ray
s a 'digital finger' that emulated the pressing of the power button on the chassis itself. Our ROACH board at LoFASM-II at the LWA North Arm is configured this way. Best of luck, L Sent from my iPhone On Dec 3, 2014, at 18:42, Jason Ray wrote: All, We're having an issue with

[casper] xport IP address

2014-12-03 Thread Jason Ray
All, We're having an issue with a roach1 in GB where we can't access the xport. It doesn't seem to respond using a web browser to the default IP of 192.168.20.4. We also had our sys admin add an entry for its MAC address to our DHCP server and we still cannot communicate with it. As far as

Re: [casper] ROACH monitor reads 0V on ATX

2014-11-20 Thread Jason Ray
Hi Sara, This sounds like a failure mode with the roach in which the 1V supply is disabled, due to a failed mosfet (Q13) on the board. We've seen this problem several times and can repair them in Green Bank. We repaired this exact problem on one of the mustang 1.5 roaches for Justus about a

[casper] ADC083000 calibration

2014-05-30 Thread Jason Ray
All, We have a student (Devin Cody, who just signed up for the casper list) working at NRAO-Green Bank this summer and he is working on implementing the offset/gain/phase, INL, etc calibration routines for the ADC083000. There's been quite a bit of work on these calibrations for the ADC5G, b

Re: [casper] ROACH-2 defaulting to netboot

2014-03-21 Thread Jason Ray
Hi Richard, Do you have the USB cable connected & a terminal program running, where you can watch it boot up? If so, once you hit any key to interrupt the boot, you type: setenv bootcmd run netboot saveenv That should do it. Jason On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Richard Black wrote: Hi all, I'm

Re: [casper] Fwd: roach1 uboot loading?

2014-03-20 Thread Jason Ray
Hi Alec, I'm using a windows XP laptop with hyperterminal. This is the same setup I've used in the past for doing the xmodem transfer. Maybe I should gather up another machine and try it...? Thanks, Jason On 3/20/2014 11:26 AM, Alec Rust wrote: Hi Jason, this is a tricky problem! What progr

[casper] roach1 uboot loading?

2014-03-20 Thread Jason Ray
All, I'm currently troubleshooting a bad roach1 board, and I thought I'd ask for some advice about the problems I'm seeing. The board seems to be bricked. It doesn't do anything on power up. So, I attached our wiggler and it appears to successfully run the macro loadram_rinit_auto.mac. How

Re: [casper] SFP+ board reliability

2013-12-06 Thread Jason Ray
data and measurements. were your temperature measurements in the standard roach2 enclosure? i think the VEGAS SFP+ PHY's are mounted differently and have different cooling than the standard roach2 enclosure. best wishes, dan On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Jason Ray <<mailto:j.

Re: [casper] SFP+ board reliability

2013-12-06 Thread Jason Ray
Hi Rich, So far we haven't had any trouble with the SFP+ boards (8 total) in our vegas machine. I guess they've been powered up continuously and in use for around a year now. We were concerned about how warm the PHY chips run so I spent a little time looking into it. The datasheet says:

[casper] progdev fails on roach2

2013-08-14 Thread Jason Ray
All, Occasionally I've noticed (maybe a handful of times over the past few months) that progdev will fail with our roach2 boards. After working fine for long periods, it will fail to program out of nowhere and the only fix is to reboot the roach2. I copied/pasted the python error dialog bel

Re: [casper] reports? console Katcp?

2013-06-25 Thread Jason Ray
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, David Saroff wrote: Casper fellow-travelers, When I run casper_xps from the matlab command prompt a lot happens that produces a .bof file that works. I'm curious about the EDK/ISE reports, timing in particular. The Casper XPS window with the big "Run XPS" button, has a "Vie

Re: [casper] Roach 2 mechanical drawings?

2012-08-27 Thread Jason Ray
design I can tell you that it only just fits in a 1U case, with about 1mm to spare above the DRAM DIMM after it's mounted on standoffs. Jason On 23 Aug 2012, at 16:37, Jason Ray wrote: > All, > > Does anyone have a mechanical drawing of the roach 2 board? Mainly the bo

[casper] Roach 2 mechanical drawings?

2012-08-23 Thread Jason Ray
All, Does anyone have a mechanical drawing of the roach 2 board? Mainly the board dimensions and mounting hole locations. I'll also need to know the approximate overall height of the board assembly with the tallest mezzanine board (CX4 or SFP+?) installed. Thanks in advance! Jason

Re: [casper] ROACH hardware failures

2012-06-19 Thread Jason Ray
ded. > > I had a thought that we should check the serial numbers and see if they > are from the same batch. Maybe some bad parts or ESD damage? > > John > >> Thanks, >> Glenn >> >> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Jason Ray wrote: >>> The first ti

Re: [casper] ROACH hardware failures

2012-06-19 Thread Jason Ray
ut in dmesg gave > non-sense readings. > > In any event, the cause was traced to the +1 volt supply MOSFET switch. > Replacing that mosfet fixed both roaches. Kudos to Jason Ray for finding > the problem originally. > > John > > >

Re: [casper] tutorial 2 problems

2012-04-25 Thread Jason Ray
Dangit... typo. That 3rd sentence should've said "combinations of the bof file, py file, and mdl file that DO NOT work directly. Thanks, Jason At 11:31 AM 4/25/2012, Jason Ray wrote: All, I recently tried to use tutorial 2 to do some troubleshooting of 10GbE ports on a coup

Re: [casper] tutorial 2 problems

2012-04-25 Thread Jason Ray
All, I recently tried to use tutorial 2 to do some troubleshooting of 10GbE ports on a couple roaches. I found a few inconsistencies in the file links that I thought I would point out. Mainly, there seems to be several combinations of the bof file, py file, and mdl file that work directly.

Re: [casper] BEE2 mechanical drawing?

2010-12-22 Thread Jason Ray
e the linear dimension tool. I have a new machine and don't have Allegro up yet, but will be glad to walk through it if Jason has a working setup. DAN On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:59:01 -0500, Jason Ray wrote: > Thanks Dan! > > Jason > > At 11:13 AM 12/17/2010, Dan Werthimer wrot

Re: [casper] BEE2 mechanical drawing?

2010-12-20 Thread Jason Ray
Thanks Dan! Jason At 11:13 AM 12/17/2010, Dan Werthimer wrote: hi jason, i'm forwarding your request to dan burke, who designed the bee2 enclosure and power supply. dan b. might have a drawing that shows the bee2 board mounting holes??? best, dan On 12/17/2010 7:52 AM, Jason Ray

[casper] BEE2 mechanical drawing?

2010-12-17 Thread Jason Ray
All, Does anyone have a mechanical drawing that depicts the dimensions of the BEE2 mounting holes? Thanks, Jason

Re: [casper] 3 Gs/s adc board demo example

2010-09-30 Thread Jason Ray
At 09:16 PM 9/29/2010, Suraj Gowda wrote: At 3 Gs/s, the FPGA clock rate is 187.5 MHz. Is this in range of the DRAM clock? Maybe you could describe what the output is and/or how it's incorrect? It's been a while since I attempted to use that interface. We had a 200 MHz sine wave input to the

Re: [casper] XAUI synchronisation

2009-08-28 Thread Jason Ray
, extra transfers are inserted into the data stream. Etc. I will get Jason Ray or Randy to send you our synchronizer model file, which is implemented in an extra FPGA on the BEE2. We fought this problem for many months. It is indeed real... Agreed! Randy & I are both out of the office today

Re: [casper] XAUI synchronisation

2009-08-28 Thread Jason Ray
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Richard Armstrong wrote: This week I've been trying to clock the BEE2 off an IBOB-generated clock with an LVTTL-to-LVPECL clock driver. I changed the BEE2 design and changed a jumper to select user-clock on the BEE2 board. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to help much (altho

[casper] Problems with low resolution DSP designs?

2009-04-08 Thread Jason Ray
All, Randy and I are working on a low resolution version of our GUPPi DSP designs. Basically, we want to take our existing (and widely used) 2048 channel design and reduce it to 128 channels, for the sake of faster readout times. We did this by simply changing the mask parameters of the PFB

Re: [casper] XAUI sync problem

2008-07-21 Thread Jason Ray
1 and 3 but I can't remember right now). Perhaps you can solve your problem as simply as not allowing reads from the XAUI until after say 32 clocks from when the iBOB begins transmitting, to allow the buffers to fill up a little. Glenn On 7/21/08, Jason Ray wrote: All, As some of you may

[casper] XAUI sync problem

2008-07-21 Thread Jason Ray
All, As some of you may know, Randy & I have been working on getting reliable data transmission across the inter-chip connections on the BEE2. We managed to get that working reliably and have moved on to the next problem that has reared its ugly head. Once we got back to the point of lookin

[casper] BEE2 Build Times

2008-06-12 Thread Jason Ray
All, As some of you know, Randy and I have been recently working on trying to get the interchip connections to work properly, utilizing the packed registers, phase delays, etc to get synchronized data into FPGA2. We have a question regarding the build times for BEE2 designs that use these in

[casper] Inter-chip connections problem

2008-05-02 Thread Jason Ray
All, Randy and I are closing in one completing phase 1 of our pulsar machine. We have two iBOB samplers streaming samples over XAUI into the BEE2's FPGA1 and FPGA3, where the pfb & fft take place. Then we're using the inter-chip connections to pass the FFT bin values over to FPGA2 where the