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

[Phil Harman]

Hi George,

Good to hear that you have your Penny board working.  Could you please let 
me have a copy of the changes you made to the bat file so I can add then to 
SVN.  I'm staying with Quartus V9.1sp2 for now since Altera have removed a 
couple of the tools I use in the latest version and I don't yet have time to 
learn the alternatives.

Thanks

73 Phil...VK6APH



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "george byrkit" <ghbyrkit at chartermi.net>
To: <hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 4:14 AM
Subject: [hpsdr] FW: Finally getting around to getting Penelope 
working:having problems: resolved for now


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> 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:
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>>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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