[hpsdr] HPSDR - FPGA updating

Sun Nov 8 19:55:42 PST 2009

Phil
What happens if Excalibur is in the last slot furthest from the power 
connector and OZY is next with Penny & Mercury closer to the power 
connector and then perhaps Janus closest to Power ? [ As when the 3 slot 
cover plate may be used.]

Thanks,

Dick Faust K9IVB

Phil Harman wrote:
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>> Roland/Phil
>>
>> Is the JTAG bus section of the Atlas bus bi-directional? Reason for
>> asking is that, using the excellent back-plate for Pandora, Ozy is
>> last on the bus with Penny/Mercury preceding. If I put the "Last JTAG"
>> jumper on the board nearest the power connector (sorry, I'm working
>> from memory without the rig in front of me) will Roland's method still
>> work?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Chris
>> G4NUX
>>
>>     
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Not its not - you have to have the boards in consecutive slots and Ozy
> farthest from the power connector.
>
> BTW, Excalibur has JTAG pass thought so you can add it anywhere in the
> JTAG chain and program the other boards as before.
>
> 73's Phil...VK6APH
>
>
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>> On 7 Nov 2009, at 12:23, roland etienne wrote:
>>
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>>> Some precisons:
>>>
>>> Instead of running the Altera Quartus IDE to access to the
>>> programmer, you
>>> can run a stand-alone version (the last is 9.1, a 122 MB file...).
>>>
>>> And of course, you can update only one of the device (Mercury or
>>> Penelope),
>>> so the best way to do it is:
>>> Auto-detect, and then select the device that you want to update, and
>>> change
>>> the file to load the correct .jic file, don't forgot to check the
>>> programm/configure checkbox for the device concerned, and then
>>> start, and
>>> wait..
>>>
>>> Hope that helps,
>>>
>>> 73, Roland F8CHK
>>>
>>>
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>>> De : hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org
>>> [mailto:hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org] De la part de roland
>>> etienne
>>> Envoyé : samedi 7 novembre 2009 12:19
>>> À : phil at pharman.org; hpsdr at openhpsdr.org
>>> Objet : Re: [hpsdr] HPSDR - FPGA updating
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>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The process to update the Flash EEPROM on the Mercury and Penelope
>>> boards
>>> without having to move the boards, as we did before, is really
>>> simple using
>>> the programmer interface within Quartus.
>>>
>>> After loading the soft witch make Ozy appears as a usb-blaster, you
>>> run
>>> Quartus, in Tools you run Programmer, you choose USB-Blaster as
>>> hardware
>>> programming tool.
>>>
>>> To test the JTAG chain, you can run the auto-detect function, witch
>>> should
>>> show you the EP2C8 and the EP3C25 if everything is correct (last
>>> JTAG strap
>>> in good position, in my case the order of the boards is Ozy,
>>> Penelope, and
>>> Mercury in last position).
>>>
>>> After the auto-detect, delete the two devices, and add file, first
>>> the one
>>> for Penelope, and then the one for Mercury. These files are the
>>> *.jic files.
>>> Check the program checkbox for the EPCS4 and the EPCS16.
>>>
>>> Then start to program, and wait...
>>>
>>> Now that the boards are in Pandora, this process is painless!!
>>>
>>> Best 73,
>>> Roland F8CHK
>>>
>>>
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>>> [mailto:hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org] De la part de Phil Harman
>>> Envoyé : jeudi 30 juillet 2009 05:58
>>> À : hpsdr at openhpsdr.org
>>> Objet : [hpsdr] HPSDR – FPGA updating
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>>> HPSDR – FPGA updating
>>>
>>> The process we currently use to update the flash EEPROM on the
>>> Mercury and
>>> Penelope boards was only ever intended to be an interim solution
>>> until we
>>> had a more convenient way of  doing it.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, the volunteer who was going to undertake the project
>>> was
>>> unable to continue and the project has languished for a while.
>>>
>>> Basically what we do at the moment is to load some code into the FX2
>>> on
>>> Ozy that makes it look like and Altera  USB Blaster.  We then use
>>> standard
>>> Altera command line programs in a batch file to load the new data to
>>> the
>>> HPSDR board.
>>>
>>> This requires the target board to be in the next Atlas slot to the Ozy
>>> board.
>>>
>>> What is needed is a way to identify the position of each board on
>>> the JTAG
>>> chain and send the new code to the appropriate board.  That way the
>>> boards
>>> can be left in situ when we need to update their code.
>>>
>>> The Altera  tools seem to allow you to identify what devices are in
>>> the
>>> JTAG chain but that is a far as I have got.
>>>
>>> Is there perhaps a volunteer who would like to tackle this project?
>>>
>>> 73’s Phil….VK6APH
>>>
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