[ARTIQ] ARTIQ 2.2 released

2017-01-31 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, ARTIQ 2.2 is available, and contains bugfixes (SPI and some compiler corner cases) and a relicensing under LGPL. The new license resolves concerns about experiments being potentially considered derived works under the GPL. We encourage all users to update to 2.2. Sébastien

[ARTIQ] ARTIQ 2.1 released

2016-12-11 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, ARTIQ 2.1 is out and is a simple bugfix release. We recommend that all 2.0 users upgrade. Sébastien ___ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq

[ARTIQ] test

2016-11-30 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Testing new Mailman options that hopefully will stop triggerring the NIST/Microsoft email spoofing detector. Can someome from NIST reply to this message and confirm that they don't get "This sender failed our fraud detection checks" messages anymore?

Re: [ARTIQ] test

2016-11-30 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
--- Begin Message --- Another test On Thursday, December 01, 2016 01:24 PM, Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ wrote: Testing new Mailman options that hopefully will stop triggerring the NIST/Microsoft email spoofing detector. Can someome from NIST reply to this message and confirm

Re: [ARTIQ] ARTIQ users meeting

2016-12-25 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
On Monday, December 19, 2016 10:08 PM, Slichter, Daniel H. (Fed) via ARTIQ wrote: It seems that JQI would be a good potential location because: Sounds good. Jonathan, Joe, Jason - what do you think about hosting such a meeting? * Would you present something? Depending on the structure and

[ARTIQ] plans for clock chip, JESD and DAC initialization/configuration

2016-12-16 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, Before DRTIO can operate, the clock chip (HMC* on Sayma and AD9516 on KC705) needs to be running. This setup should be done by the comms CPU on the DRTIO master, and the management CPU on a DRTIO satellite. For initialization, the comms or management CPU would configure the clock

[ARTIQ] ARTIQ users meeting

2016-12-16 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, The idea of organizing an in-person meeting for current and prospective ARTIQ users has been floating for a while. We'd like to get a conversation started on this topic. Some of this email is taken from Joe's GitHub issue #582. * Venue? some ideas: NIST, JQI, DESY, Oxford, CERN, Warsaw

Re: [ARTIQ] plans for clock chip, JESD and DAC initialization/configuration

2016-12-16 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
On Saturday, December 17, 2016 12:02 PM, Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ wrote: Before DRTIO can operate, the clock chip (HMC* on Sayma and AD9516 on KC705) needs to be running. Strictly speaking: this is needed only for the two-KC705 system. But we might as well use the same scheme

[ARTIQ] [RFC] remove RTIOCollision

2017-03-15 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, RTIOCollision is a bit tedious to implement with DRTIO, since the master does not know if a given channel should do replace or collision. The satellite would need to report this information for each of its channels (and this also needs to be passed from the gateware scripts to the

Re: [ARTIQ] [SINARA] hardware arrived!

2017-03-17 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
On Friday, March 17, 2017 07:34 AM, Grzegorz Kasprowicz via ARTIQ wrote: look here https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4325054/24015076/98f7653a-0a87-11e7-93d2-7df1831b2422.jpg Looks nice! Thanks for all your work! ___ ARTIQ mailing list

[ARTIQ] ARTIQ 2.3 released

2017-04-23 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, ARTIQ 2.3 is available and fixes various bugs that were present in 2.2. We encourage all users to update to 2.3. When using conda, make sure to add the conda-forge channel before updating, as ARTIQ now depends on the new pyqtgraph 0.10 package available there. Sébastien

Re: [ARTIQ] starter ARTIQ hardware for neutral atoms

2017-03-08 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, On Wednesday, March 08, 2017 06:11 AM, Neal Pisenti via ARTIQ wrote: * For ARTIQ core device, we would ideally jump straight to using a Kasli, but as that isn't likely to be done in the next few months, I was planning to use a KC705 as the core. The "EEM" DDS/synth Kasli extensions may

[ARTIQ] August 2017 status report

2017-08-02 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Please see the attached PDF. 2017-August.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq

Re: [ARTIQ] Should we use StackExchange?

2017-08-13 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Joe, Why is this better than the mailing list? And why add another place to get support? On Sunday, August 13, 2017 05:10 PM, Joe Britton via ARTIQ wrote: - news and topics of community-wide interest (https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq) The mailing list was never intended for

[ARTIQ] Kasli FPGA selection

2017-06-28 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 04:52 PM, Thomas Harty wrote: Have we settled on the 50T as the FPGA for the first version of Kasli, and what speed grade? I would advocate for the 50T in -2 speed grade for two main reasons: a) I don't think we need that much FPGA resources for the 100T to be

Re: [ARTIQ] Kasli FPGA selection

2017-07-01 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
On Friday, June 30, 2017 07:54 PM, Grzegorz Kasprowicz via ARTIQ wrote: additional 30$ does not make any difference. OK, fine. ___ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq

Re: [ARTIQ] ARTIQ Digest, Vol 37, Issue 6

2017-06-29 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
On Thursday, June 29, 2017 06:16 PM, Thomas Harty via ARTIQ wrote: The fact that going for a 75T/100T gives us access to 12EEMs/Kasli (4 on the BP) rather than 10EEMs/Kasli (only 2 on the BP) for the 50T is an added benefit. Kasli was meant to be a simple and low-cost board without a backplane,

[ARTIQ] Fwd: North American Conference on Trapped Ions

2017-05-18 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, I would like to relay the information about this upcoming conference on trapped ions organized at NIST Boulder. M-Labs will be participating with an exhibit (including some Sinara boards) and the hosting of a networking event and panel discussion at Sanitas Brewery one evening. The panel

Re: [ARTIQ] Instantiating tri-state buffer in migen

2017-10-06 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
On Saturday, October 07, 2017 09:13 AM, Arpit Agrawal via ARTIQ wrote: return Instance("IOBUFDS", i_I=self.i, o_O=self.o, i_T=self.oe, OE means "output enable". T means "tristate", i.e. not driving. You need to invert that signal. Sébastien

[ARTIQ] September status report

2017-09-04 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Please see the attached PDF. 2017-September.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq

[ARTIQ] ARTIQ 2.5 released

2017-10-02 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hello, We have just released ARTIQ 2.5 and new conda packages are available. This is a bugfix release that you can use if you do not wish to move to ARTIQ-3 yet. Sébastien ___ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq

[ARTIQ] ARTIQ 3.0 released

2017-09-29 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hello, After a year since the last major release, we are pleased to announce ARTIQ 3.0. There were ~1300 commits since 2.0, for many different features such as RTIO DMA that can dramatically improve the throughput of long pulse sequences, and asynchronous RPCs to speed up the reporting

[ARTIQ] October status report

2017-10-03 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Please see the attached PDF. 2017-October.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq

[ARTIQ] scans and generators on core device?

2017-10-10 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, to implement scans on the core device (https://github.com/m-labs/artiq/issues/118) in the best way possible, we need some information about how ARTIQ is used and will be used: * are Python generators (i.e. using "yield") something that you know about, use, and would like to see supported

Re: [ARTIQ] scans and generators on core device?

2017-10-18 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, Judging from the absence of replies to this email, we will not support generators on the core device nor MultiScanManager. Sébastien On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 02:34 PM, Sébastien Bourdeauducq wrote: Hi, to implement scans on the core device

[ARTIQ] SFP/SATA cables for connecting Ethernet on Sayma

2017-11-13 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi Greg, just a quick note about the SFP/SATA cable that is necessary to connect Ethernet on a Sayma directly. I suggest building them from a passive SFP copper cable (e.g. http://www.fs.com/products/36649.html) cut in half, with a male (motherboard or disk) connector soldered at the end.

[ARTIQ] test

2017-11-06 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Please disregard this message. ___ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq

[ARTIQ] November status report

2017-11-06 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Please see the attached PDF. 2017-November.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq

Re: [ARTIQ] scans and generators on core device?

2017-10-20 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
On Friday, October 20, 2017 12:36 AM, Slichter, Daniel H. (Fed) wrote: Judging from the absence of replies to this email, we will not support generators on the core device nor MultiScanManager. My main question with this is about time efficiency -- if you were to go to the effort to support

[ARTIQ] monthly status report

2018-05-05 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Please see the attached PDF. 2018-May.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq

Re: [ARTIQ] We have ARTIQ RF out of Sayma!

2018-05-23 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
On Thursday, May 24, 2018 02:16 AM, Joe Britton wrote: Has M-Labs tested SAWG on Sayma since the DRAM, Ethernet, gateware bug patching in recent months? Sure, I did it just before sending the board to Duke two weeks ago. Why? ___ ARTIQ mailing list

[ARTIQ] Sayma input frequency

2018-06-18 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, any objections to supporting only the RTIO clock frequency (currently 150MHz) at the Sayma input, instead of 100MHz? Are you using non-programmable 100MHz references? Sébastien ___ ARTIQ mailing list

[ARTIQ] Single-board ARTIQ/Kasli system now operational

2018-01-15 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi everyone, We have completed the ARTIQ core development for Kasli in single-board configurations (i.e. without DRTIO). This includes DDR3 support, and 1000BASE-X Ethernet PHY using Artix-7 GTP transceivers. The full ARTIQ runtime works properly on the board and is ready to execute kernels

[ARTIQ] ARTIQ 3.4 released

2018-02-05 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, We have released ARTIQ 3.4 to fix an intermittent core device crash (#902). Sébastien ___ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq

[ARTIQ] January 2018 report

2018-01-03 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Here is the current report. Happy new year everyone! Sébastien 2018-January.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq

[ARTIQ] SAWG

2018-08-08 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
On Thursday, August 09, 2018 03:15 AM, Thomas Harty via ARTIQ wrote: it's a big FPGA and IIRC we're not really pushing the resources limits yet (but maybe I'm wrong about that?), so it's not clear that's actually a problem. I get that multi-hour compile times are death, but at least we haven't

[ARTIQ] monthly report

2018-08-09 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Please see the attached PDF. 2018-August.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq

Re: [ARTIQ] SAWG

2018-08-09 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
On Thursday, August 09, 2018 03:12 PM, Thomas Harty wrote: So, the questions are: how much do we need to simplify the SAWG to make it okay to debug and maintain at the 1GSPS data rate? and, what's the way of doing that, which has the least impact on users? "In anything at all, perfection is

Re: [ARTIQ] ARTIQ Digest, Vol 50, Issue 2

2018-07-13 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 04:59 AM, Thomas Harty via ARTIQ wrote: My view is that we shouldn't give up the flexibility of being able to fine-tune the DUC frequency unless there is a good reason to do so. For example: if the complexity/compile times of the current code make

[ARTIQ] Sayma DAC frequencies

2018-07-08 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, I'm trying to determine what is the best way forward to support sample rates better than the current 600MHz with the Sayma DAC and SAWG. What sample rate(s) would you like to see and why? With high sample rates, there are two ways to ease the FPGA resource burden: * use the DAC

[ARTIQ] March 2018 report

2018-03-05 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Please see the attached PDF. 2018-March.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq

Re: [ARTIQ] Elementary problems with Kasli

2018-10-01 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
On 10/01/2018 10:30 PM, Hanhijärvi Kalle via ARTIQ wrote: On Kasli, I'm using SFP0 port for the fiber. Is the LED next to SFP0 turned on? That's the Ethernet connection status indicator. ___ ARTIQ mailing list

[ARTIQ] status report

2018-12-11 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, The attached PDF covers the work since the last report sent on October 9th. Sébastien 2018-November-December.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq

Re: [ARTIQ] Frame grabber

2019-01-31 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, The Grabber card is not compatible with CoaXpress. Using CoaXpress with Kasli should be possible via its SATA connector, but requires nontrivial development in hardware and gateware. Sébastien On 2/1/19 12:02 AM, Harry Parke via ARTIQ wrote: Dear ARTIQ list members, Does anybody

[ARTIQ] web forum

2019-05-28 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, I have set up a web-based forum as another place (that some may find friendlier and easier to use) to discuss all things ARTIQ, (n)Migen, MiSoC and HeavyX with the community. Visit it here: https://forum.m-labs.hk/ Sébastien ___ ARTIQ mailing

Re: [ARTIQ] ARTIQ 5 release timeline?

2019-09-12 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
On 9/12/19 11:05 PM, Andrew Risinger via ARTIQ wrote: > Is there a timeline for the release of ARTIQ 5? https://github.com/m-labs/artiq/milestone/14 The main item is Sayma v2 support. > Also, is there any reason that the conda builds only still support > python >=3.5.3 <3.6, when Nix supports

[ARTIQ] ARTIQ-5 released

2019-11-14 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, ARTIQ-5 is released today. To update, follow the stable branch manual at https://m-labs.hk/artiq/manual/installing.html. Highlights of this new release (compared to 4.0): * Performance improvements: - Faster RTIO event submission (1.5x improvement in pulse rate test) See:

[ARTIQ] closing mailing lists on Dec. 24

2020-12-16 Thread Sébastien Bourdeauducq via ARTIQ
Hi, since nobody is using these mailing lists anymore (these days the preferred channels seem to be GitHub/Gitea issues, IRC/mattermost, and the forum), I will close them next week, Dec 24th - unless someone objects. Sébastien ___ ARTIQ mailing