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01/13/2013

09:39 PM Software Development: RE: Debugging DSP in VirtualBox?

I have being using SD XDS510 USB + VirtualBox 4.1.16 + CCS 5.2.0 with no problems. Dmitry Gorulko

05:07 PM FPGA Development: RE: Creating FPGA Base-Project - core manager problem

Hi Christian,
The ISE Webpack license should be sufficient for what you are trying to do.
Try opening one of ... Gregory Gluszek

01/12/2013

02:23 PM FPGA Development: Creating FPGA Base-Project - core manager problem

Hi,
I've started with the FPGA-design in ISE Webpack 14.4.
I added all files from "MDK_2012-08-10\fpga\vhdl" to ... Christian Rückl

02:11 PM Software Development: RE: DSP Link example not working

Mike,
I got it and it's working now :)
Thanks.
Christian Christian Rückl

02:10 PM Software Development: RE: u-Boot configuration for DSP-Startup

Tim,
It's working now.
Thanks!
Christian Christian Rückl

01/10/2013

12:18 PM Software Development: RE: PRU Kernel Driver

The PRU drivers are not installed. You'll need to rebuild the kernel. You may need to patch in the PRU drivers as w... Michael Williamson

11:20 AM Software Development: PRU Kernel Driver

Do any of the kernels built by critical link have the PRU drivers installed? Or do I have to rebuild a kernel with th... Jeremy Young

08:14 AM Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance

Oh. You should be all set, see [[Setting_CPU_Speed]].
-Mike
Michael Williamson

08:11 AM Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance

Hi,
Yes - both kernel settings is set to 'y'.
root@vdr:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq# cat scaling_availa... Mads Olav le Maire

07:58 AM Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance

Can you check if CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y is set in the 3.1 kernel configuration. Also can you confirm that the CONFIG_CPU_... Michael Williamson

02:24 AM Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance

Hi,
I am usually running the 3.1.x kernel that I build from the git repository downloaded from Critical link. Here... Mads Olav le Maire

01/09/2013

11:38 AM FPGA Development: RE: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem

Dear all,
by the way, Greg was right saying that the GPIO core configuration I posted the first time could work (I... Michele Canepa

10:07 AM FPGA Development: RE: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem

ON the bitfile generation, please make sure that your unused IOBs are "floating" and not pulled down or up.
-Mike
Michael Williamson

09:58 AM FPGA Development: RE: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem

Hi Michele,
The only time I've experienced the board reseting due to an FPGA load is when I was mistakenly loading... Gregory Gluszek

05:25 AM FPGA Development: RE: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem

Hi Greg,
thank you for the hint and the fast answer!
Now I have another problem: I modified the GPIO instantiation ... Michele Canepa

09:06 AM Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance

What version of the kernel are you using? The pre-programmed one on FLASH? That version of the kernel may be older ... Michael Williamson

08:03 AM Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance

This is the "factoryconfig" printout:
U-Boot > factoryconfig
Factory Configuration:
Config Version : 1.1
MAC Ad... Mads Olav le Maire

01/08/2013

12:54 PM FPGA Development: RE: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem

Hi Michele,
The reason that you're not seeing the echo'ed value of the GPIO change is due to the way the core is c... Gregory Gluszek

09:53 AM FPGA Development: RE: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem

Sure Greg, thanks for the help!
The name is IndustrialIO_top, because I worked on it from your file..
Michele Canepa

08:59 AM FPGA Development: RE: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem

Hi Michele,
Could you post your VHDL instantiation of the GPIO core? Perhaps some of settings or ports were set i... Gregory Gluszek

03:56 AM FPGA Development: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem

Dear All,
after I successfully created a GPIO core on the FPGA framework, burnt onto the FPGA, successfully enumer... Michele Canepa

09:48 AM Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance

In u-boot, run the command "factoryconfig".
-Mike
Michael Williamson

09:31 AM Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance

Here is some information - cannot get any useful information from the bootlog.
*From Bootloader startup:*
Jumpi... Mads Olav le Maire

01/07/2013

12:38 PM Software Development: RE: MSGQ access

The answer was in the Makefile. I had to add in all the defines.
DEFINES=-DTRACE_ENABLE \
-DOS_LINUX \
-DMAX_... Mary Frantz

09:20 AM Software Development: RE: MSGQ access

Hi Mary,
I think the reason you're getting a compiler error is because you're only including a single file from t... Gregory Gluszek

01/04/2013

11:48 AM Software Development: MSGQ access

Is there a way to use the MSGQ library? I would like to call MSGQ_locate() and MSGQ_close(). I have a project based ... Mary Frantz

10:43 AM Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance

Hi Mads-l,
Can you print out the factory configuration information? Certain modules (Revision "A" silicon, IT sil... Michael Williamson

10:15 AM Software Development: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance

I am currently testing network performance. Having installed the netperf utility in my root file system, I am able to... Mads Olav le Maire

01/03/2013

04:54 PM Software Development: Profibus Matser development on the Profibus DevKit

Has there been any work done regarding a Profibus master on the MityArm AM1810? Jeremy Young

01/02/2013

09:01 AM PCB Development: RE: SATA board connector

Alex,
I haven't had the opportunity to get a SATA connector for our board. That is the one I was looking at. I lik... Scott Whitney

12/31/2012

10:17 AM PCB Development: RE: Used EMIFA-Signals/Pins

That's great Mike - exactly what I hoped to hear :)
I was wondering if you had done precisely this given that the ... Conor O

08:10 AM PCB Development: RE: Used EMIFA-Signals/Pins

Hi Conor,
On the Non-FPGA modules, all 4 of these signals have a 1K Ohm series resistor between the on-board nets ... Michael Williamson

07:49 AM PCB Development: RE: Used EMIFA-Signals/Pins

In the case of the Industrial IO board though, pins 197 through 200 are tied directly to 3.3V for the VCCO_[0,1] bank... Conor O

12/27/2012

01:51 PM Software Development: RE: Debugging DSP in VirtualBox?

Do you know of any emulators that are useable from within the current Oracle VirtualBox or is there a work around? I... Jim Sheffler

12/26/2012

03:55 PM Software Development: RE: SYSBIOS & Starterware

Hi Jean-Baptiste -
It would be my understanding that if you are going to use SYS/BIOS that you should start with ... Thomas Catalino

12/23/2012

09:36 PM Software Development: RE: after update the root-FS and Kernel NFS errors appear at startup

The most recent filesystem involved transitioning from Anstrom 2008 to Angstrom 2012.05, which also migrated from the... Michael Williamson

10:48 AM Software Development: RE: after update the root-FS and Kernel NFS errors appear at startup

To give you more inforamtion about the startup sequence I add the whole log-file of it.
Can it be that there is so... Christian Rückl

09:45 AM Software Development: after update the root-FS and Kernel NFS errors appear at startup

Hi,
I updated the Root-File-System on my module with the Base-FS out of the latest MDK (2012-08-10). I copied also... Christian Rückl

09:28 PM Software Development: RE: DSP Link example not working

Ok,
I will post to your other topic for enabling the network on the newer MDK.
Are you building the example sof... Michael Williamson

03:04 PM Software Development: RE: DSP Link example not working

Mike,
sorry for my really late response....
I was using the factory installed filesystem with the associated ke... Christian Rückl

12/22/2012

07:24 PM Software Development: RE: u-Boot configuration for DSP-Startup

Christian
this page
http://support.criticallink.com/redmine/projects/arm9-platforms/wiki/DSP_Quick_Start
should ... Tim Iskander

07:19 PM Software Development: RE: u-Boot configuration for DSP-Startup

Thank you Tom for your quick answer!
For the moment I have a DSP-only setup but later I want to use both: Linux an... Christian Rückl

07:11 PM Software Development: RE: u-Boot configuration for DSP-Startup

Christian
You can store the DSP image in flash. I am assuming you are running a DSP-only setup (i.e. no linux system... Tim Iskander

04:17 PM Software Development: u-Boot configuration for DSP-Startup

Hi,
At the moment I'm at a point where I don't know how...
I have a DSP-image and want to load it at the startu... Christian Rückl

12/20/2012

09:49 PM FPGA Development: RE: Pinout on L138-FG-225-RC

Michele,
In response to your GPIO bank question:
Yes you can use a single core in the FPGA and have it utilize ... Alexander Block

09:44 PM PCB Development: RE: SATA board connector

Scott,
Just wondering if you found a drop in replacement. We actually just tried doing this on an in-house test fi... Alexander Block

09:39 PM Software Development: RE: tftp access violation

Wade,
I'm going to take a stab in the dark here on a suggestion to give you something to try. If you think you may... Alexander Block

09:26 PM Software Development: RE: The Jtag Interface

If you can wait approximately a week or two Digikey should have them in stock for ordering (http://www.digikey.com/pr... Alexander Block

08:33 PM Software Development: RE: The Jtag Interface

hi mike
I buy a 1808-FX-225-RC. it is without the adapter board. How can I get one？
thanks yilin wang

09:49 AM Software Development: RE: New UBoot Image That Fixes Bootelf Hang When Running Starterware

Sorry for the delay.
The code to support the updated features was checked into our "git server":http://support.cri... Michael Williamson

09:34 AM Software Development: RE: New UBoot Image That Fixes Bootelf Hang When Running Starterware

Was there an official release?
What / where is the latest/greatest? Emmett Bradford

09:41 AM Software Development: RE: PROC_read()

Or.... you can use PROC_read, but you need to build your own synchronization hooks. This is what Greg was alluding t... Michael Williamson

09:40 AM Software Development: RE: PROC_read()

The PROC_read() API is not guarded. It's effectively a memory copy (dealing with the VM addressing under linux).
... Michael Williamson

09:21 AM Software Development: RE: PROC_read()

Greg,
Can you clarify your answer with a bit more detail? Are you saying that the DSP should send a message to the... Wade Calcutt

12/19/2012

02:54 PM Software Development: RE: PROC_read()

Hi Terrence,
What I've seen done here in situations like you are describing is to use the dsplink interfaces and ... Gregory Gluszek

02:45 PM Software Development: RE: PROC_read()

To clarify. I am using Critical Link's API MityDSP::tcDspApp to load the DSP application, configure the shared memor... Terrence Lawrence

12:33 PM Software Development: PROC_read()

I have a shared memory read issue between the ARM and DSP processor that I am trying to resolve. I am using PROC_rea... Terrence Lawrence

12/18/2012

09:38 AM FPGA Development: RE: I2C issues on SLX45

Further - I broke my OLED writes into < 32 bytes each and retested. That works fine and if it was unreliable, the pic... Conor O

08:54 AM FPGA Development: RE: I2C issues on SLX45

Hi guys. Got a chance to test this today. That's a lot better! The i2cdetect scan picks up the device and shows "--" ... Conor O

09:00 AM FPGA Development: RE: Xilinx design suite 14.2 and MDK_2012-08-10

The EMIFA DCM may not be required. If you do not require any other clocks than the 100 MHz (when running at 300 MHz ... Michael Williamson

08:32 AM FPGA Development: RE: Xilinx design suite 14.2 and MDK_2012-08-10

Hmmm. Not sure now because I'm afraid I didn't use the DCM at all! I didn't connect the i_ema_clk directly but via a ... Conor O

08:13 AM FPGA Development: RE: Xilinx design suite 14.2 and MDK_2012-08-10

Dear Conor,
I appreciate your help!
I have the suspect that the component emaclkdcm-Emifa_dcm is a digital cloc... Michele Canepa

05:43 AM FPGA Development: RE: Xilinx design suite 14.2 and MDK_2012-08-10

The learning curve for Xilinx tools is pretty darn steep anyway without jumping in at the deep end!
What *I* did i... Conor O

12/17/2012

05:20 PM Software Development: SYSBIOS & Starterware

Hello,
I'm working to a project with a MityOMAP-L138-FX-225-RC.
Currently, I try to use SYSBIOS into this module... JB B

01:44 PM FPGA Development: RE: Xilinx design suite 14.2 and MDK_2012-08-10

Dear Jean-Pierre,
I am a newbie too in fpga programming: could you please post me a suggestion about the solution?
... Michele Canepa

10:20 AM FPGA Development: RE: I2C issues on SLX45

Scratch that - I see -DDEBUG is in the Makefile :) Conor O

10:17 AM FPGA Development: RE: I2C issues on SLX45

No worries Mike. I used to be a QA guy so I must have a knack for finding these things! Like communicating with a non... Conor O

09:17 AM FPGA Development: RE: I2C issues on SLX45

Hi Conor,
I am updateing (via editing) the patch on the previous post. We've finished some testing here and found... Michael Williamson

12/16/2012

09:04 AM FPGA Development: RE: I2C issues on SLX45

Thanks Mike, I looked at the driver code but wasn't really familiar enough with it to help. I was suspicious somethin... Conor O