Re: [casper] TUT_2 PROBLEM

2016-12-05 Thread Jack Hickish
so I had to install > katcp-0.3.4. so, I am thinking update my filesystem version, because can be > outdated? > > Regards > > Rolando > > > > > > > 2016-12-05 14:04 GMT-06:00 Jack Hickish : > > Hi Rolando, > > Nice work! > > My advice - i

Re: [casper] adc5g stuck in test mode

2016-12-08 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Michael, cc. List, Do you see glitches if you leave the adc in test ramp mode and grab lots of samples? If not, the problem isn't related to IO calibration. I might be misinterpreting your email, but just to be clear, you must recalibrate the MMCMs (or iodelays, or both) every time you program

Re: [casper] adc5g stuck in test mode

2016-12-09 Thread Jack Hickish
es the mmcm and the ogp stuff in one hit? Cheers Jack Thanks > > Michael > > > > *From:* Jack Hickish [mailto:jackhick...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 08 December 2016 23:26 > *To:* Michael D'Cruze; Primiani, Rurik; casper@lists.berkeley.edu > > > *Subject:* Re: [caspe

Re: [casper] Problem making a bof file from a bit

2016-12-14 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Roberto, The input to the mkbof program needs to be a .bin (not .bit) file. I believe there's a "generate binary" option you can specify in the planahead options for bitgen. Hope that helps, Jack On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 5:30 pm Roberto F., wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I want to generate a boff

Re: [casper] progdev fail

2016-12-15 Thread Jack Hickish
More broadly speaking, has anyone ever used the DDR powerPC interface on ROACH2? Is it actually know to work with code as-provided in the mlib_devel / katcp repos? Franco -- perhaps this project -- https://github.com/argonnexraydetector/RoachFirmPy -- which I found linked on the DDR page of the CAS

Re: [casper] progdev fail

2016-12-15 Thread Jack Hickish
Wesley New for vetting/committing to their repo but I > guess he hasn't done it yet. I can send the info to those interested. > Regards, mm. > > From: casper-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [casper-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] > on behalf of Jack Hic

Re: [casper] External clock to 64-channel ADC

2017-01-02 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Kaushal, On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 10:16 am Kaushal Buch, wrote: > Dear all, > > We have interfaced 64-channel ADC with ROACH-1 board and it is working > as expected using on-board clock (50MHz). There is provision to > provide an external clock to this board to operate ADC to get a > maximum data r

Re: [casper] ADC_MKID_4x ERROR

2017-01-13 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Luca, Did you get anywhere with this - it seems like you're missing some of the adc_mkid_4x_interface code. Which version of mlib_devel are you using? Cheers Jack On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 3:40 pm , wrote: > Dear all, > > > > I’m working on a project with ROACH2 and ADC/DAC MKID boards. I can use

Re: [casper] External clock to 64-channel ADC

2017-01-20 Thread Jack Hickish
32 Kaushal Buch wrote: > Hi Jack, > > Thanks for the reply. > > The design compiled for 260 MHz (adc0_clk) with yellow block set to 65 MHz. > > However, I am not yet clear about the external clock input requirements. > > > > Regards, > > Kaushal > > On

[casper] Re: Maillist was down, now back up

2017-03-27 Thread Jack Hickish
there is a good way to rescue missing emails, other than just sending them again. Feel free to do so if you thing the information in the mail should be archived. Cheers Jack On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 at 11:32 Jack Hickish wrote: > Hi all, > > A few people contacted me in the last 48 hours to say

Re: [casper] about casper_xps

2017-03-27 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Oliver, Have you tried increasing the MATLAB Java heap size, as per https://www.mail-archive.com/casper@lists.berkeley.edu/msg04642.html ? Cheers Jack On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 at 22:32 Wang Jinqing wrote: > Hi , > > I am developing a project. It seems good when do the simulation. But When > I

Re: [casper] Re: Can't open tut3

2017-03-29 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Claudio, This is a classic problem -- the library version you are using is not compatible with the version the tutorials were designed in. The particular error you have can be solved by deleting the XSG yellow block and pulling a new one from the library (I believe it is now called XSG_core_con

Re: [casper] ADC calibration issue

2017-03-29 Thread Jack Hickish
Further, is the board clocking OK? -- I believe the initialization script should give feedback on whether of not the FPGA's PLL has successfully locked to the ADC clock, and what the current measured board clock is. Cheers Jack On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 at 14:28 Matt Dexter wrote: > Is the design and

Re: [casper] ADC calibration issue

2017-03-29 Thread Jack Hickish
d for ADC A. > ERROR: SERDES calibration failed for ADC B. > ERROR: SERDES calibration failed for ADC C. > ERROR: SERDES calibration failed for ADC D. > Selecting analog inputs... > Using default digital gain of 1... > Done! > > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Jack Hi

Re: [casper] ADC calibration issue

2017-03-30 Thread Jack Hickish
nd I am not sure how to > check the adc repo and mlib_devel repo versions ? Could you please help me > in that ? > Thank you. > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Jack Hickish > wrote: > > I like the triumphant "done!" at the end :) > > Next questions -- > Wha

Re: [casper] ADC calibration issue

2017-03-30 Thread Jack Hickish
configure the brams ? > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 4:36 PM, vijay kumar > wrote: > > The following is output I get when i type the 'git rev-parse HEAD': > > a949c9d5c1761078b4c884699ff52c1497a17ff6 > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Mark Wagner wrote: >

Re: [casper] Minimum Clock Frequency (ROACH2)

2017-04-03 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Franco, I don't know the low frequency limit, but for what it's worth, you could always run the adc at 320 MHz and just use 1 of the 8 outputs, which also has the benefit of avoiding and inter-core mismatch issues, since you'd effectively only be using 1 core. Or run faster and only use every N

Re: [casper] about adc_mkid_4x (ROACH2)

2017-04-06 Thread Jack Hickish
I'm sure I remember merging Tim's code in the past. I've just got off a flight and am a bit dazed and confused right now, but I'll check what's in the main casper-astro repository tomorrow and update the r2 core if needed. Cheers Jack On Thu, 6 Apr 2017, 15:48 Madden, Timothy J., wrote: > Olive

Re: [casper] ADC5G out of range

2017-04-19 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Franco, Looking at the schematics, the over-range pins are routed to the ZDOK, so it should be possible to add these signals to the yellow block if you really want them. As things stand at the moment, I don't know how you'd check for an over-range condition other than just monitoring the ADC ou

Re: [casper] about adc_mkid_4x (ROACH2)

2017-04-19 Thread Jack Hickish
This is now in the main casper-astro repo ( github.com/casper-astro/mlib_devel) . Thanks Tim! Jack On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 at 16:52 Jack Hickish wrote: > I'm sure I remember merging Tim's code in the past. I've just got off a > flight and am a bit dazed and confused righ

Re: [casper] ADC MKID - FFT issue

2017-04-19 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Luca, Maybe this response is too delayed to be useful, but using the main casper-astro repository (https://github.com/casper-astro/mlib_devel), the xps_adc_mkid_4x should now work with both roach1 and roach2. I'm not sure what repository you are using which contained the xps_adc_mkid_4x_r2 bloc

Re: [casper] Roach2 xladdsysgen() question (Tutorial 1)

2017-04-21 Thread Jack Hickish
ps://github.com/ska-sa/mlib_devel) > > > > 3. Xilink 14.7 > > > > thanks, > > Chunsik > > > > > > *From:* Jack Hickish [mailto:jackhick...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, April 20, 2017 11:16 AM > *To:* Chae, Chun Sik (382G) ; >

Re: [casper] Roach2 xladdsysgen() question (Tutorial 1)

2017-04-27 Thread Jack Hickish
7 Apr 2017, 01:05 Chae, Chun Sik (382G), < chun.sik.c...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > Hi jack, > > > > I am tyring this. It seems to me that the ‘startsg’ needs ‘startsg.local’. > Am I correct? > > If so, where can I find ‘startsg.local’? > > > > thanks, > >

Re: [casper] sync_gen parameters questions

2017-04-27 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Franco, Some guesses below On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 at 15:22 Franco wrote: > Dear Casper Community, > > > I was playing with the sync_gen block, and I have some question > regarding its parameters. I read the syn_gen memo > (https://casper.berkeley.edu/memos/sync_memo_v1.pdf) but it didn't he

Re: [casper] PlanAhead Import Error

2017-05-11 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Franco, I've had this error before. To be honest, since ISE compiled my design fine and I could see no issues in hardware when comparing digital noise sent through multiple FFT channels, I just ignored the problem. That is, I used planahead to generate constraints/pblocks, but compiled these wi

Re: [casper] Help with PlanAhead

2017-05-25 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Franco, 1) Yes, this is an optimization the tools have performed. If you dig into the Xilinx manuals you can probably find some options / UCF entries to turn off this type of optimization, or at least make it less aggressive. I don't use these enough to know exactly which ones you want, but I'd

Re: [casper] Error in tut3.py: No module named spead64_48

2017-06-07 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Xavier, Assuming you're only going to use the katcp stuff in Corr to talk to your boards, you don't really need corr_functions at all. In fact you can edit the __init__.py file in Corr/ to remove a lot of the superfluous imports if they are causing you trouble. The real solution is that everyo

Re: [casper] Options for reading slow data throughput from ROACH2

2017-06-19 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Xavier, The ROACH2 (unlike the ROACH1) has a dedicated 1GbE connection straight to the FPGA fabric -- it's the "other" RJ45 connector in addition to the one you're using to talk katcp. You can access it using the one_gbe yellow block -- I think this is probably the way to go. Cheers Jack On M

[casper] casper.berkeley.edu maintenance

2017-06-20 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi all, casper.berkeley.edu will be down from around midday on Sunday 25th June until ~9am Monday morning (Pacific time), owing to maintenance at Berkeley's Space Science Lab. Sorry for the inconvenience, Jack -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "caspe

Re: [casper] Options for reading slow data throughput from ROACH2

2017-06-20 Thread Jack Hickish
g > flow execution...gmake: *** [__xps/system_routed] Error 1ERROR:EDK - > Error while running "gmake -f system.make bits".: XPS failed.* > > Any idea what I could be doing wrong? > Has anyone worked with that "yellow block" recently? > Is there any example availa

Re: [casper] Options for reading slow data throughput from ROACH2

2017-06-22 Thread Jack Hickish
CPU Rx" option requires further selection in the > configuration panel to work properly. i.e.: I am configuring the block > wrong, or the "yellow block" has a problem. > > If it is of any help, I am using mlib_devel master branch commit > 225aa9ed21aa914078546d2256c56f77f9

Re: [casper] Options for reading slow data throughput from ROACH2

2017-06-22 Thread Jack Hickish
This should be fixed in commit https://github.com/casper-astro/mlib_devel/commit/0c3f3349e0ea5b135015f247cdae3f1b71af8c86 Let me know if you have any problems. Thanks for the error report, Jack On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 at 12:46 Jack Hickish wrote: > Hi Xavier, > > Yeah, that's a bu

Re: [casper] OPB Address Space Overlap when using DRAM

2017-06-26 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Adam, Some months ago I tried to get the ddr in the casper-astro library working, using code provided by people on this list. Needless to say, I failed. I'm not sure what was wrong, but my spare time to debug got exhausted, and I haven't looked at this since. However, for your particular probl

Re: [casper] Trouble compiling tutorial 1

2017-06-28 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Colin, I don't think many people are supporting windows, though there was an email from a few hours ago -- https://www.mail-archive.com/casper@lists.berkeley.edu/msg06862.html -- which had a link to a windows-friendly repo version. Perhaps this would be useful to you. Jack On Wed, 28 Jun 2017

Re: [casper] Problem in CASPER snap package (raw data acquisition)

2017-06-28 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Xavier, I believe all the "snap" blocks have been deprecated, in favour of the newer "snapshot" block, which has integration in the software control libraries. If you are having this problem in a collaboration supplied model (it sound like you're doing tut2?) it will be updated in due course pr

Re: [casper] Options for reading slow data throughput from ROACH2

2017-06-28 Thread Jack Hickish
these > interfaces work and I feel I am missing something. > > thanks, > XB > > > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:46 PM Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Hi Xavier, >> >> Yeah, that's a bug. I'll have a fix shortly, but for now I would just >> l

Re: [casper] QDR Help / Timing Diagram

2017-07-05 Thread Jack Hickish
On Wed, Jul 5, 2017, 6:56 AM Schoenwald, Adam J. (GSFC-5640) < adam.schoenw...@nasa.gov> wrote: > Hi All, > > I’ve abandoned my attempt to use the DRAM for now and moved on to QDR. > > I’m somewhat confused by the wiki at https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Qdr > . > > > > The “issuing commands sect

Re: [casper] QDR Help / Timing Diagram

2017-07-05 Thread Jack Hickish
ical Engineer > Office: 301.286.4175 | Cell & Text: 631-241-0003 > > > > -Original Message- > From: Jason Manley [mailto:jman...@ska.ac.za] > Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2017 10:55 AM > To: Jack Hickish > Cc: Schoenwald, Adam J. (G

Re: [casper] Trouble calibrating ADC 5G V2.0 DMUX1:1

2017-07-28 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Xavier, At 2.5GHz sampling frequency you might need to calibrate each IO lane individually, rather than just sweeping the global clock phase. I don't know where you're getting your calibration code from, but if you have a calibrate_all_delays method (like at https://github.com/jack-h/adc_tests/

Re: [casper] Glitches in ROACH2/MUSIC board ADC time streams

2017-08-03 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Sam, I'm not familiar with the music board, but I wonder if it would benefit from tuning the clock vs data skew on the adc->fpga links to tune the data capture for reliability. Are you coming to the CASPER workshop? If so I suggest bringing a music board and maybe somebody can donate some time

Re: [casper] Glitches in ROACH2/MUSIC board ADC time streams

2017-08-03 Thread Jack Hickish
ck, > > Would that be akin to the calibration routine which was written for the > ADC5G? I will be at the workshop, and can definitely bring a test setup. > > Thanks, > Sam > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Hi Sam, >> >> I

Re: [casper] contact

2017-08-09 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Beatriz, Welcome to the CASPER mail list! There is no formal membership of the collaboration. Whatever you are using CASPER hardware or software for, this mail list is the place to post questions, get help, or announce things you've built or are willing to share. Having said that, manufacture

Re: [casper] 10 GbE SPF+ to 1 GbE RJ45 adapter

2017-08-10 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Xavier, Using an adapter might be possible in principle, but it definitely won't work out the box. It's probably about three orders of magnitude more design effort to get this working vs using the on-board 1gbe :) Sorry! Jack On Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 1:33 PM Xavier Bosch wrote: > Ryan, > Thank

Re: [casper] gen_xps fails

2017-08-25 Thread Jack Hickish
Weird. I'm guessing that is a software register? if you select the block that's throwing the error, then in matlab type "update_casper_block(gcb)" (which will delete that block and replace it with a fresh copy from the library) does that help at all. Cheers Jack On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 at 04:21 Heyst

Re: [casper] Re: using two ADC, reg.

2017-09-01 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Anshu, To add to John's comments -- this isn't an "error" in the sense there's anything wrong with your code or the tools. It's a failure of the Xilinx placer/router to find a way of implementing your design which will run at the speed you requested (250 MHz(?)). Probably these are specific par

[casper] Developer Mail List

2017-09-19 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi all, In the aftermath of the workshop, there is going to be a fair bit of development to the CASPER website, documentation, software, and tools. To avoid spamming the list, I've just created a new mail list: casper-...@lists.berkeley.edu for announcements for that may interest developers (sched

[casper] Re: XAUI : Initialization commands cannot be evaluated

2017-10-09 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Indrajit, In would appear a file was declared deprecated and removed in a previous commit. I've re-added this file in the casper-astro roach2 branch -- https://github.com/casper-astro/mlib_devel/tree/roach2 It appears there is also an issue with some IP core having an uppercase name, which I'm

[casper] Re: XAUI : Initialization commands cannot be evaluated

2017-10-09 Thread Jack Hickish
u need. I've no idea if XAUI ever worked on ROACH2 with CX4 cards Cheers Jack On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 at 15:47 Jack Hickish wrote: > Hi Indrajit, > > In would appear a file was declared deprecated and removed in a previous > commit. I've re-added this file in the casper-as

Re: [casper] ROACH1 Programming issues

2017-10-12 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Mugundhan, Is the boffile that fails to program executable? I.e., if you log into the roach and run "ls -la /boffiles/" do the working and not-working boffiles have the asme permissions. (I don't actually know if roach1 still requires boffiles to be executable, but it used to, so maybe it's wor

Re: [casper] ROACH1 Programming issues

2017-10-12 Thread Jack Hickish
t; > Thank to you and James :) > > Regards, > > Mugundhan > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Hi Mugundhan, >> >> Is the boffile that fails to program executable? I.e., if you log into >> the roach and run "ls -la /bo

Re: [casper] Compiling 32 ADC channels in ROACH-2 with accumulating brams

2017-10-31 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Vijay, If you scroll up through the compile output do you see another, more helpful, error. As a guess, is it possible that your capture RAMs are so deep that you've used up all the memory on the chip? Cheers Jack On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 at 08:43 Vijay Kumar wrote: > Hello Casperites, > I need

Re: [casper] Compiling 32 ADC channels in ROACH-2 with accumulating brams

2017-10-31 Thread Jack Hickish
in the bram size limits. Moreover, I > am able to successfully compile the design using 16 blocks. > > > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Hi Vijay, >> >> If you scroll up through the compile output do you see another, more >&g

Re: [casper] missing "cosin" block inside fft_wideband_real

2017-10-31 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Carl, What branch / git hash of mlib_devel are you using? Cheers Jack On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 at 13:40 Felten, Carl (382F) wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am trying to generate an HDL Netlist of a design that includes the > fft_wideband_real block. I get an error that “initialization commands > cannot b

Re: [casper] Compiling 32 ADC channels in ROACH-2 with accumulating brams

2017-11-01 Thread Jack Hickish
7; as > prefix. >An address value with no prefix is assumed to be a decimal number. > WARNING:EDK - IPNAME: opb_bram_if_cntlr, INSTANCE: adc16_snap_h - ADDRESS >PARAMETER C_HIGHADDR has 20-bit value. Mpd specifies 32-bit value - >/home/indrajit/Downloads/sbp_32_2/XPS_RO

Re: [casper] missing "cosin" block inside fft_wideband_real

2017-11-01 Thread Jack Hickish
he coeff_gen block get erased > when I try to Generate: > > > > *From:* Jack Hickish [mailto:jackhick...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 31, 2017 1:48 PM > *To:* casper@lists.berkeley.edu > *Subject:* Re: [casper] missing "cosin" block inside fft_wideband_real

Re: [casper] missing "cosin" block inside fft_wideband_real

2017-11-02 Thread Jack Hickish
On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 at 10:51 Felten, Carl (382F) wrote: > Looks like that works. > > > > Thanks Jack! > > > > *From:* Jack Hickish [mailto:jackhick...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 1, 2017 4:18 PM > > > *To:* casper@lists.berkeley.edu >

[casper] casper.berkeley.edu is down.

2017-11-15 Thread Jack Hickish
Working on getting it back up. Sorry for the inconvenience. Jack -- 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.

[casper] Re: casper.berkeley.edu is down. -- BACK UP!

2017-11-16 Thread Jack Hickish
Website/wiki back up now (thanks Jeff Cobb!). Cheers Jack On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 at 16:07 Jack Hickish wrote: > Working on getting it back up. Sorry for the inconvenience. > > Jack > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.be

[casper] Cheap Arista switch!

2017-12-04 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi all, Just a heads up in case anyone is in need of a 32-port 40GbE switch. The Arista 7050QX-32 is super-cheap on ebay eg. https://www.ebay.com/itm/FIRE-SALE-Arista-DCS-7050QX-32-R-32x-Port-40G-QSFP-Layer-3-Switch-10G-Switch/272949806199?epid=662262969&hash=item3f8d138477:g:DtQAAOSwlyJaFaZ0 h

[casper] Fwd: Berkeley SETI Research Center undergraduate research internships, summer 2018

2017-12-04 Thread Jack Hickish
More spam from me (sorry not sorry). The Berkeley SETI group is a major user and developer of CASPER stuff, and I'm sure could find uses for the skills of undergrad CASPERites. Cheers J -- Forwarded message - From: Steve Croft Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 at 14:43 Subject: Berkeley SETI

[casper] Berkeley CASPER group

2017-12-05 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi CASPERites, Here at UC Berkeley we are in the process of putting together some job adverts for CASPER research positions at UC Berkeley. We are hoping to advertise positions for those with batchelors, masters, or doctoral degrees to help develop next-gen CASPER tools and software/hardware infra

Re: [casper] Berkeley CASPER group

2017-12-07 Thread Jack Hickish
cores – > i.e. JESD204B interface..) and #3 (testing new hardware). I would be > interested in the “ working remotely” option below. > > Thanks > > Raoul > > > > > > *From:* Jack Hickish [mailto:jackhick...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 05, 2017 10:4

Re: [casper] Dealing with extreme RFI

2017-12-07 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Xavier, For what it's worth, our SNAP2 collaborators in China made an FMC card with the 12 bit version of the ASIAA ADC chip. This might be a reasonable starting point if you don't want to go to wild with JESD. The post-Virtex6 version of the toolflow (i.e., that used by SNAP / SKARAB) began l

Re: [casper] unknown error

2018-01-03 Thread Jack Hickish
If you're using Ubuntu, you might want to check the tweaks at https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14.x_and_Matlab_2012b, which include the dash vs bash issue Dave mentioned. Cheers Jack On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 at 19:16 David MacMahon wrote: > Hi, Roberto, > > I suspect that your

Re: [casper] casperfpga using

2018-01-05 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi pei xin, The short answer is, "yes". But there's clearly some work to be done on making the error handling cleaner. After those warnings, does the CasperFpga instance actually work? The first warning is the client attempting to connect using the microblaze interface (for SNAPs without RPIs) and

Re: [CASS SPAM]Re: [casper] casperfpga using

2018-01-05 Thread Jack Hickish
ave me "True" when I ran > "fpga.is_connected()". But it launched an error when I loaded the .fpg file. > fpga.upload_to_ram_and_program('snap_tut_intro.fpg') > RuntimeError: progremote request(Request to client snap failed.) on host > snap failed > > Best wishes, &

Re: [casper] Writing calibrated data to QDR of ROACH2

2018-01-29 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Homin, No-one replied to this, so i'll bite. In principle you could do this, but there is no canned way to obtain/save/reload the calibrations. They are implemented by stepping some MMCMs (rather than a register containing fixed offsets) so you'd have to count the steps during calibration, and

Re: [casper] ROACH2 4-element correlator compilation error

2018-01-29 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Bela, You might try increasing the Java heap size - https://www.mail-archive.com/casper@lists.berkeley.edu/msg04642.html - that's been known to help in some cases. Cheers Jack On Mon, Jan 29, 2018, 11:50 PM James Smith wrote: > So updating the diagram at the moment produces no error, and yo

Re: [casper] ROACH2 4-element correlator compilation error

2018-02-05 Thread Jack Hickish
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 1:23 PM, Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Hi Bela, >> >> You might try increasing the Java heap size - >> https://www.mail-archive.com/casper@lists.berkeley.edu/msg04642.html - >> that's been known to help in some cases. >> >&g

Re: [casper] dac mkid spi problem

2018-02-20 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Paolo, If I'm reading the code correctly -- https://github.com/casper-astro/mlib_devel/blob/roach2/xps_library/%40xps_adc_mkid/xps_adc_mkid.m -- I believe that none of the SPI pins are driven. I have no idea whether any of these pins are pulled in any particular direction on the hardware since

[casper] FFT biplex_core block

2018-02-21 Thread Jack Hickish
Howdy, Partly motivated by a search for RAM savings, and partly for fun, I'm looking through the innards of the fft_biplex_real_4x block. Can someone tell me, using short words and/or pictures, what the the relationship between the inputs (pol1, pol2) and the outputs (out1, out2) on the biplex_cor

Re: [casper] FFT biplex_core block

2018-02-21 Thread Jack Hickish
irst N/2 clocks out > both output ports, even channels on top (in bit reversed order) and odd on > bottom (also bit reversed order). Pol2 outputs follow for the next N/2 > clocks, same order. > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 6:04 PM Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Howdy, >>

Re: [casper] FFT biplex_core block

2018-02-21 Thread Jack Hickish
biplex fft algorithm: > https://www.amazon.com/Multirate-Digital-Signal-Processing-Crochiere/dp/0136051626 > > I agree with Aaron's memory of the output ordering. > > Glenn > > On Feb 21, 2018 18:04, "Jack Hickish" wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> P

Re: [casper] FFT biplex_core block

2018-02-21 Thread Jack Hickish
ive inputs simultaneously. > > Dave > > On Feb 21, 2018, at 18:04, Jack Hickish wrote: > > Howdy, > > Partly motivated by a search for RAM savings, and partly for fun, I'm > looking through the innards of the fft_biplex_real_4x block. Can someone > tell me, using

Re: [casper] dac mkid spi problem

2018-02-22 Thread Jack Hickish
I am quite use to verilog and SPI (I did something > similar for an I2C interface) but I can't say the same for OPB bus, > power-pc's and so on... it will take me a while I guess. I will contact you > when I will be on it. > > Cheers, > Paolo > > 2018-02-20 19:57

Re: [casper] dac mkid spi problem

2018-02-22 Thread Jack Hickish
lt;2>" LOC = N15 | IOSTANDARD = LVCMOS33 | S | PULLUP; > > NET "eth_rx_d<3>" LOC = P18 | IOSTANDARD = LVCMOS33 | S | PULLUP; > > > > Given that the ROACH flow is mostly automated, this last option might be > the simplest. Just add the SPI constrai

[casper] Fiber transceiver suppliers

2018-02-22 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi CASPER folk, I'm in the midst of buying lots of 10/40GbE transceivers for HERA, and thought I'd throw out some names of suppliers who we use / made attractive quotes. Fiberstore (fs.com) has been our go-to for a while for optics purchases, and we've had good luck (admittedly with some early te

Re: [casper] FFT biplex_core block

2018-02-23 Thread Jack Hickish
d pol2 being presented > at the respective inputs simultaneously. > > Dave > > On Feb 21, 2018, at 18:04, Jack Hickish wrote: > > Howdy, > > Partly motivated by a search for RAM savings, and partly for fun, I'm > looking through the innards of the fft_biplex_real_4x block

Re: [casper] UltraScale+ 100G Ethernet Configuration

2018-02-26 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Arash, It's awesome that you're doing this. I only have experience bringing up the 10GbE core on SNAP, but a few things you might try are: - Make sure all the (many!) clocks are running at the correct speed -- easy to misconfigure. - Check and double check resets - Setting the transceivers int

[casper] Re: Spectrum shifted (Beamformer)

2018-03-10 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Rolando, This sort of channel number offset issue usually indicates a misalignment between the sync pulse in the design and data where your data goes through an operation that has some latency, and this latency isn't compensated for in the sync signal. One clue is that there is usually a spike

[casper] Re: Spectrum shifted (Beamformer)

2018-03-10 Thread Jack Hickish
there any way to find the place and value of the latency that I must > remove or add, to the synchronization pulse inside my design? > > Regards > > Rolando > > > 2018-03-10 18:47 GMT-06:00 Jack Hickish : > >> Hi Rolando, >> >> This sort of channe

Re: [casper] Quick prototype platform

2018-03-15 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Karl, On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 at 21:59 Karl Warnick wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a non-astronomical comms antenna array project that does not have > detailed specs for bandwidth and number of antenna elements. I need to > build a programmable platform that I can use for multichannel sampling > and

Re: [casper] ROACH2 Toolflow Repository Version

2018-03-21 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Andrea, On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 at 13:22 Andrea Mattana wrote: > Hi all, > > after many months of working on another board (SKA TPM for LFAA) today I'm > back to a project using the ROACH-1 but I figured out that my "longterm" > Matlab R2009b license expired, therefore I decided to try to install

[casper] CASPER in the cloud: a survey

2018-03-22 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi all, tl;dr -- We're trying to figure out if there is any interest in free, cloud-hosted CASPER tools: please fill out the survey at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeetuYWr3WPnUDGjdTznEFVptY_Y0mFXaTsKrDEAEAKSBVRbA/viewform?usp=sf_link -- For as long as I can remember, people have

Re: [casper] ROACH2 Toolflow Repository Version

2018-03-23 Thread Jack Hickish
ption in OFFER/ACK: 28 > *** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 28 > DHCP client bound to address 192.168.10.121 > Using ppc_4xx_eth0 device > TFTP from server 192.168.10.5; our IP address is 192.168.10.121 > Filename '/roach2/boot/uImage-r2borph3'. > Load address: 0x400

Re: [casper] ROACH2 Toolflow Repository Version

2018-03-28 Thread Jack Hickish
t; infrastructure for the last workshop or who is going to do for the coming > > workshop. > > > > I will update on progress as well maybe changing the subject of the this > > thread that can be considered closed ;) > > > > Cheers, > > Andrea > &

Re: [casper] Black box compilation error using Casper XPS flow

2018-04-01 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Vijay, Are you trying to black box a system generator model, or plain verilog/vhdl? In the latter case, any error in the HDL syntax or issues with port declarations will probably cause the tools to implode like you see. Do you still get this error with the latest (14.7) of the xilinx tools, an

Re: [casper] KAT-7 KatADC on ROACH2

2018-04-19 Thread Jack Hickish
_write_register(self.fpga, 0, addr[i], > val[i]) > corr.katadc.spi_write_register(self.fpga, 1, addr[i], > val[i]) > > Note that at higher clock speeds, the value of the second register is > changed (commented third line), as determined by Jack Hickish. If you want >

Re: [casper] KAT-7 KatADC on ROACH2

2018-04-19 Thread Jack Hickish
On 04/19/2018 11:20 AM, Jack Hickish wrote: > > The clock should trigger capture of the values on the data lines when > > they are stable, so putting the clock edges out of phase with the data > > transitions makes sense. Having said that, the controller HDL may or > > may

Re: [casper] KAT-7 KatADC on ROACH2

2018-04-19 Thread Jack Hickish
case? Cheers Jack On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 at 14:59 Tom Kuiper wrote: > On 04/19/2018 11:52 AM, Jack Hickish wrote: > > Thinking about this a moment longer -- I don't think an incorrect > > clock phase will be related to reported board clock problems. You can > > comp

Re: [casper] Unable to run SmartXplorer inside CASPER toolflow

2018-04-22 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Franco, Late reply, but did you ever get to the bottom of this? When the compile finished did it appear to generate a new .bin file? If so maybe the binary is fine and it's just the bin->bof generation that's broken. Cheers Jack On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 at 12:43 Franco Curotto wrote: > Dear all,

Re: [casper] Unable to run SmartXplorer inside CASPER toolflow

2018-04-22 Thread Jack Hickish
ectly. > > Thanks anyways. > > Franco > > > Original Message > Subject: Re: [casper] Unable to run SmartXplorer inside CASPER toolflow > From: Jack Hickish > To: casper@lists.berkeley.edu > CC: > > > Hi Franco, > > Late reply, but di

Re: [casper] Programming the SNAP board via the 10GbE interface.

2018-05-22 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Jake, That's interesting, I don't think I've seen this failure mode before. If you plug a mini usb connector into the SNAP, you can read debug messages over this port, using it as an 8N1 115200 baud serial interface. If you have a xilinx programmer, you could also burn the flash manually with v

Re: [casper] Programming the SNAP board via the 10GbE interface.

2018-05-22 Thread Jack Hickish
nit FAIL > # JAM starting > using ethernet core gbe_port0 > MAC 0x004089411302 > IP NM GW > link is UP > FPGA at 33.6 C [ms 1] > FPGA at 33.6 C [ms 2] > ... > > > Cheers, > Jake Jones. > > On Tue

Re: [casper] Programming the SNAP board via the 10GbE interface.

2018-05-23 Thread Jack Hickish
erver ready >> but there is no network traffic or logs suggesting that this IP was >> obtained by the DHCP server. Nonetheless, I tried connecting to it using >> this IP but had no success there either. >> fpga = casperfpga.CasperFpga('169.254.3.19', port=69)

Re: [casper] Programming the SNAP board via the 10GbE interface.

2018-05-25 Thread Jack Hickish
ing this new golden image the SNAP board > obtained an IP address and I was able to talk to it with no problems. > > Cheers, > Jake Jones. > > > > > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Jack Hickish > wrote: > >> Hi Jake, >> >> I've seen that

Another archive test

2018-08-05 Thread Jack Hickish
sorry again

Re: [casper] 100G switch

2018-08-13 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Ramesh, Late response to your email, but, did you investigate using that switch with one of the free non-iCOS operating systems (for those of us who are super-cheap)? Cheers Jack On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 at 08:12 Ramesh Karuppusamy wrote: > Hi Homin, > > We have had very good experience with the

Re: [casper] Inverse of fft_wideband_real

2018-08-13 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Alex, I don't know if there's a way to avoid generating the full spectra prior to taking the fft (I suspect if there is, it just pushes the buffering somewhere else), but it certainly seems like you should be able to do FFTs of two streams, A, B, in parallel. I would think this would work by (a

Re: [casper] Inverse of fft_wideband_real

2018-08-14 Thread Jack Hickish
which might be useful. > > As a sidelight, I’ve been trying to find a venerable paper I recall Aaron > Parsons et al. wrote on the CASPER Biplex FFT. I can’t seem to find the > one I recall, this is the closest I have come, but doesn’t have the > singular focus on the FFT I recall in an

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