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 "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
