Hi Alex, Thank you. There will be more BSP updates for SKARAB, but I will keep everyone posted when they occur.
Kind regards, Adam On Wed, 06 Feb 2019, 5:00 PM Alexander Raymond < alexander.raym...@cfa.harvard.edu wrote: > Adam Isaacson recently pointed us to the current firmware for SKARAB. > Thanks again, Adam. Details in the exchange below might be useful to > others. > > Best wishes, > Alex > > > *Subject: **Re: SKARAB firmware* > > Dear Adam, > > Yes, we did, thanks. Updated to Spartan 1.6 and Virtex 7 version 2.7. > Just for my own record keeping, the writes were done with > > myfpgaobject.transport.spartan_flash_reconfig(filename=‘path2ufp’) > myfpgaobject.transport.virtex_flash_reconfig(‘path2binary’) > > We will continue using the older Matlab and Vivado tools for now. > > Thanks for your help! Really useful. > > Best wishes, > Alex > > > > Hi Alex, > > Did you come right? > > Kind regards, > > Adam > > > Hi Alex, >> >> Sorry, forgot to mention that even though we have migrated to the 2018.2 >> and R2018a, the BSP is still Vivado 2016.2. I would use that for now until >> we swop over to the official R2018a and Vivado 2018.2 - I will publicise >> this. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Adam >> >> >> >> >> Hi Alex, >>> >>> Try first with the casper-astro/casperfpga version and if that doesn't >>> work then try ska-sa/casperfpga (devel branch). I am using that for my >>> development. The casper-astro/casperfpga version should still work though. >>> Let me know if you don't come right. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Adam >>> >>> >>> Hi Alex, >>>> >>>> Good to hear from you. Gosh, sounds like very old versions of SKA-SA >>>> BSP and SPARTAN. The latest firmware SKA-SA BSP and SPARTAN firmware cab be >>>> obtained from github as follows: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/ska-sa/skarab_bsp_images (master) >>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_ska-2Dsa_skarab-5Fbsp-5Fimages_commit_219fd8c26be42f1567f340047ea8d3fba3b4f12a&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=l1pME3uEYPonW1x4VaWeaFLx4s-GkMB29X9I_6kyM-g&m=wRgb4uCcc8IIqnGPrYGmZOeENmxT6trKzYg-SDkv7ds&s=2TfhQ3JPj2BloBG64QD7Io0K11gSuQJpgtavGvZ8i8w&e=> >>>> >>>> Versions: SKA-SA BSP Rev 9 (F/W=2.7,SOC=2.6,SPARTAN=1.6) >>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_ska-2Dsa_skarab-5Fbsp-5Fimages_commit_219fd8c26be42f1567f340047ea8d3fba3b4f12a&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=l1pME3uEYPonW1x4VaWeaFLx4s-GkMB29X9I_6kyM-g&m=wRgb4uCcc8IIqnGPrYGmZOeENmxT6trKzYg-SDkv7ds&s=2TfhQ3JPj2BloBG64QD7Io0K11gSuQJpgtavGvZ8i8w&e=> >>>> >>>> Also, we have migrated to Matlab R2018a and Vivado 2018.2. It is also >>>> possible to generate the BSP from the toolflow now, but this isn't 100% >>>> finished. We will be updating this repo shortly. Let me know if you need >>>> help configuring the Spartan and FPGA flash - casperfpga can do both. >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> >>>> Adam >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Dear Adam, >>>>> >>>>> We recently updated to the most recent versions of mlib_devel and >>>>> casperfpga. The casperfpga install appears to be incompatible with our >>>>> Skarab firmware version (2.2). Is there are more recent firmware that is >>>>> compatible? Are there instructions for installing it? >>>>> >>>>> To calibrate, I think firmware 2.2. still required us to have the >>>>> 40GbE cable unplugged during upload_to_ram_and_program() operations. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> Alex >>>>> >>>>> To clarify our current firmware: >>>> >>>> >>>>> get_soc_version() = (0,0, ‘2.2’) >>>>> get_spartan_firmware_version() = ‘1.5’ >>>>> get_embedded_sfotware_ver() = (0, 0, ‘3.1’) >>>> >>>> >>>>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. > To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu.
