[hpsdr] FW: Finally getting around to getting Penelope working: having problems: resolved for now

[george byrkit]

Thanks, Bill, for your email!  I updated Penelope to V1.2, and now Ozy can
talk to it and acknowleges its existence.

I'll also note that since I'm using 10.0SP1 of Quartus, I had to modify the
batch file for programming Penelope, and that 'qprogrammer' had to be
changed to 'quartus' as well in the path, since I'm using the full version
of Quartus, in conjunction with the Metis development and beta testing.

This should get me far enough along to get into further trouble!

Vy 73,
George Byrkit, K9TRV

-----Original Message-----
From: george byrkit [mailto:ghbyrkit at chartermi.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 2:39 PM
To: 'Bill Tracey'
Subject: RE: [hpsdr] Finally getting around to getting Penelope working:
having problems

Bill,
Good point!  Just the thing I was hoping to learn.

Now if I could only figure out why I can't see my message on the list!

I can see (now that I look) that 1.2 of Penelope was probably produced AFTER
my board was made and shipped by Gerd.

So it's a case of 1) only penelope and Ozy on the bus, 2) last JTAG on JP7
on penelope, and use the stuff in USBBlaster-Binaries, right?

Vy 73 and much thanks,
George

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Tracey [mailto:bill at ewjt.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 2:33 PM
To: george byrkit
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Finally getting around to getting Penelope working:
having problems

Have you loaded the latest FPGA  code into Penny?   The fact that the 
wites to i2c 0x1b succeed show that the board is seen on the i2c bus, 
suspect the ROM code in Penny is old enought it does not know how 
to talk to Ozy.

Cheers,

Bill

At 01:01 PM 12/28/2010, you wrote:
>***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>
>I have a Penelope that I got from Gerd in April of 2009.  It's been sitting
>around, unused until recently.  I got a Hercules from another ham in the
Ann
>Arbor, Michigan area around the end of November this year.  That caused me
>to finally start to get things working over the Christmas holidays this
>year.
>
>In order to test and calibrate Hercules, I need Penelope to work!
>
>So, I've tried to 'fire up' penelope using PowerSDR and KISS.  Both seem to
>indicate that Penelope is 'not there', and show a version of 0 for
penelope.
>Both D1 and D7 are 'on' on Penelope.  Jumpers are according to the
>'standard' Penelope jumpering instructions (incl NO jumper on JP7 - last
>JTAG.)
>
>Using the 'initozy11.bat' file from PennyMerge, the first set of Writei2c
>(to device 0x1a) all fail, but the second set, labelled as 'for Penny', to
>device 0x1b, all succeed.
>
>Excalibur is in J1
>Ozy is in J3
>Penelope is in J4
>Mercury is in J5
>(J2 and J6 are empty)
>
>Does anyone have any advice, tips or suggestions as to what is going on?
Or
>what to test next and/or how to proceed?
>
>(even a sharp software guy can be perplexed by hardware on some occasions!)
>
>Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all,
>Vy 73,
>George Byrkit, K9TRV
>
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