Re: [casper] ROACH TGE Multicast

2013-10-02 Thread Marc Welz
Hi there I think building a multicast receiver is non-trivial. Doing multicast the right way requires that hosts implement IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol). If you are running sshd or telnetd on the roach you can connect to those over the 10GbE interface attached to the FPGA. It

[casper] E10G81GT2CX4 Intel 10GbE card

2013-10-02 Thread Andrea Mattana
Hi Casperites, Does anybody have experience with this Intel card??? I would like to buy a new one but the two listed in the CASPER Wiki (https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Recommended_10_GbE_Hardware) are not available on local sellers. Do you have tested any other cards? Thanks to all. Andrea

Re: [casper] system.twx missing

2013-10-02 Thread G Jones
The timing was so bad that it didn't get beyond the mapping stage. Follow the instructions in the error message: Please use the Timing Analyzer (GUI) or TRCE (command line) with the Mapped NCD so run the $XILINX/settings64.sh and then timingan and use the open design option to open the

Re: [casper] system.twx missing

2013-10-02 Thread John Ford
Hi all, I'm compiling a model file for ROACH1 but I have to solve some timing constraints which are not met. Unfortunately, the system.twx file to be opened with the timing analyzer which should be found in XPS_R..BASE/implementations/ is missing. Hmm. If it got as far as the snapshot

Re: [casper] E10G81GT2CX4 Intel 10GbE card

2013-10-02 Thread John Ford
Hi Casperites, Does anybody have experience with this Intel card??? I would like to buy a new one but the two listed in the CASPER Wiki (https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Recommended_10_GbE_Hardware) are not available on local sellers. Do you have tested any other cards? Hi Andrea. We

Re: [casper] system.twx missing

2013-10-02 Thread Jack Hickish
Hey Andrea, I think (http://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/23165.html) the ngc file is all you're going to get, unless you run the compile again with the XIL_TIMING_ALLOW_IMPOSSIBLE variable set to 1. Your error is some specific component that has impossible timing constraints -- it's not just

Re: [casper] system.twx missing

2013-10-02 Thread Andrea Mattana
I'm sure, the directory is correct, because I do that very often, but in this case the system.twx is really missing. The only file readable from the timingan is a ngc file but I don't know how to investigate timing with that. Can be an issue related to the ADC or some resources ended? This is the

Re: [casper] system.twx missing

2013-10-02 Thread Andrea Mattana
Thanks Jack, can be a z^-2048 delay?? Andrea 2013/10/2 Jack Hickish jackhick...@gmail.com: Hey Andrea, I think (http://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/23165.html) the ngc file is all you're going to get, unless you run the compile again with the XIL_TIMING_ALLOW_IMPOSSIBLE variable set to

Re: [casper] system.twx missing

2013-10-02 Thread Andrea Mattana
mmm yes I think that's the problem, I have read the system generator reference manual at the delay block page and should be definitely a problem to have big delay coupled with big data bus width. Thanks, I will try i a different way and will report the improvements (hopefully). Andrea 2013/10/2

Re: [casper] Questions of getting Xilinx 14.5 license

2013-10-02 Thread Nimish Sane
Yes, this license includes ISE and I have just confirmed that it is working fine. Thanks, Nimish On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Gary, Dale E. dale.e.g...@njit.edu wrote: I just updated our old license, which had ended in Dec. 2012, by entering a request on XUP (Xilinx University Program),

Re: [casper] ROACH TGE Multicast

2013-10-02 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Jason, On Oct 1, 2013, at 11:13 PM, Jason Manley wrote: Pretty much all the layer 2+ switches (all the 10GbE unit that CASPERites are using, to the best of my knowledge) support proper multicasting through IGMP snooping. I figure we can do this setup part through the PPC without

Re: [casper] E10G81GT2CX4 Intel 10GbE card

2013-10-02 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Andrea, We used a dual port CX-4 Intel NIC for the previous PAPER correlator X engines: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/product-brief/10-gigabit-cx4-dual-port-server-adapter-brief.pdf That NIC's PCIe interface only ran at 2.5 GT/s and x8 width, which works out to an 8/10B encoded data