Re: [casper] Use of xBlock for block scripting

To add to what Dave has said. I found that having no control over the relative size and placement of the blocks when using xBlocks made it hard to see what was happening, making the design write-only and hard to debug. Generating scipts can be tedious though. The mdl2m.m script in the casper_libra

Re: [casper] Slack chat groups for CASPER

Hi David, and list, The slack group is called casper-astro. Please drop me an email if you want to be invited! Cheers Jack On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, 3:31 pm Forbes, David C - (dforbes), < dfor...@email.arizona.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I never wrote down the names of the Slack chat groups for the CA

Re: [casper] Use of xBlock for block scripting

I could be wrong, but as I recall, the block diagrams created via xBlocks were (at least at the time) not very conducive to visualizing the structure of the diagrams (e.g. lots of lines/traces overlaid on top of each other). This was not a serious problem when everything worked as it should, bu

[casper] Slack chat groups for CASPER

Hi, I never wrote down the names of the Slack chat groups for the CASPER projects. I'd like to join. Are these written anywhere that I could find them? I looked on the CASPER website with no luck . David Forbes Steward Observatory / ARO University of Arizonadfor...@ema

Re: [casper] Use of xBlock for block scripting

i don't know much about xblocks, so can't add much to jack's comments, except: about a dozen years ago chris dick and others at xilinx recommended casper use xblocks, so hong chen tried it out, and ported several of the casper dsp blocks. i think it worked well, and hong chen liked xblocks, but i

Re: [casper] Use of xBlock for block scripting

Or.. move to verilog/VHDL and use black boxes? :) On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 14:14, Franco wrote: > > Hi Jack, > > I see. We actually found problems when trying to script xBlocks within an > xBlock, we got some weird block connection error, but I guess that is > something solvable with some deb

Re: [casper] Use of xBlock for block scripting

Hi Jack, I see. We actually found problems when trying to script xBlocks within an xBlock, we got some weird block connection error, but I guess that is something solvable with some debugging. We'll evaluate if we stay with xBlock scripting or we switch back to standard simulink scripting. Thanks

Re: [casper] Use of xBlock for block scripting

Hi Franco, I don't think there's any reason not to use xblocks. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong. Several years ago there was a quest to move the whole casper library to xblocks -- https://github.com/casper-astro/xblocks_devel/ -- but it never seemed to get traction and the original libraries

Re: [casper] Issue in python code for 4 element interferometer

Hi Nikita, On line 91 you define `rply` to be a list of 16 empty lists, then on line 148 you try to write in a loop to 64 elements of `rply`. But there are only 16, so your script errors. As an aside, you could achieve the same as: rply = [[],[],[], ] with rply = [[] for i in range(16)] which

[casper] Question on Redpitaya

Hi all, I'm testing the tut_spec with a redpitaya (14bits) using just the example from the tutorial "python tut_spec.py -f tut_spec.fpg -r rp-xx.local " and I get an error on the line spec0=fpga.snapshots.accum0_snap_ss.read(arm=False)['data'] ... (from snap.py) RuntimeError: accum0_snap_ss.r

[casper] Issue in python code for 4 element interferometer

Dear Casperites I am working on Roach2 and 5Gsps ADC1x5000-8. During data acquisition for 4 element interferometer I am having following issue in python code. I want to plot and record all the 6 baselines at a time from a single python file. please find the attached python code file. Kindly hel