Re: [casper] PFB timing error

2008-11-07 Thread John Ford
Hi John, Do you have the coefficients in slices rather than BRAMs? That might be contributing to the high address fanout. Yes, the use distributed memory cells for coeffs is checked. I'll try changing it. It takes forever to build, but I'll start one and leave it go. This made a

Re: [casper] PFB timing error

2008-11-07 Thread G Jones
I think this makes a lot of sense, and now that you mention it I think I recall having similar experiences. Distributed RAM involves making up the coefficient memory, some few Kbytes, out of ~16x1 bit memory elements, so the address logic has to fan out to all of those tiny elements. The BRAM (I

Re: [casper] Question on control software on the ROACH

2008-11-07 Thread John Ford
Hi all: I just could not find any documents in casper web site talking about the control software running in the PowerPC. So my first question is how can I use the interface between FPGA and PowerPC? For example, how can I design a block memory which can be written by ADC module and can be

Re: [casper] Question on control software on the ROACH

2008-11-07 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi wan, regarding your question on roach I/O: in about a month, roach will be running BORPH, a linux operating system for fpga's (the operating system we use on the BEE2). in BORPH, registers, block rams and fifo's in your simulink design appear as linux files which you can read and write.