[hpsdr] Magister USB driver for Windows 7 x64

[Isaac Weksler]

Bill,

I am now integrating Penelope. When I run the PowerSDR it shows that the
right version of firmware is loaded (1.2). The initozy11.bat shows that
loadFW and loadFPGA are successful. But the I2C calls are unsuccessful. See
attached file. Why is that?

I did not program the FPGA myself. I used it as is since the PowerSDR showed
the right version. Should I program it nevertheless?

I then have problems with controlling the Hercules PA. I wonder if that
could that be the cause?

73
Isaac 4Z1AO

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Tracey [mailto:bill at ewjt.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 8:17 AM
To: 'Isaac Weksler'; 'Bill Tracey'
Cc: hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
Subject: RE: [hpsdr] Magister USB driver for Windows 7 x64

Isaac,

I don't have an x64 system up so don't have direct experience in getting it
to work.

As to the jumpers on Magister - you want to place jumpers on SCL and 
SDA to tie the I2C bus to the Atlas bus.   You also want to set MSEL0 
to 1 and MSEL1 to 0 indicating PS mode programming.

Next thing  is to  try is to run initozy11.bat from a command prompt and
look at the output.  Specifically very interested to know if loadFW and
loadFPGA at the start of the batch file succeed.  The 
calls to writeI2C are for Janus and Penelope.    If loadFW and 
loadFPGA succeed, then I suspect you've need to upgrade the firmware in the
ROM on Mercury.  If this is a fresh Mercury board from TAPR that's never
hard the firmware updated on it I'm sure you need to update the firmware.
The USBBlaster code in SVN will do that - there's a readme in there that
tells how to use it.  (I'd provide a link but can't seem to get to the SVN
server at this moment).

Let me know what the loadFW and LoadFPGA are doing - that will tell me if
you're successfuly talking to the Magister board.

Regards,

Bill


At 11:43 AM 8/1/2010, george byrkit wrote:
>Isaac,
>Now you are beyond my skills (libusb0, winusb, KISS, C#), and into an 
>area where Bill is infinitely better than I am!
>
>Maybe posting your current situation (if Bill doesn't respond) to the 
>list will help, as there are likely others out there who can help.  It 
>may be that you need a newer version of firmware on the Mercury or such 
>before it will work...  The 'byteblaster' code in Bill's 
>USBBlaster-Binaries directory on the SVN server would be required.  You 
>should probably delete the libusb0.dll from there and let Windows 
>provide the proper one that it installed.  You'll also need some 
>Quartus software installed as well, I think, to make the
USBBlaster-Binaries work.
>
>Vy 73,
>George K9TRV
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Isaac Weksler [mailto:iweksler at bezeqint.net]
>Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 12:57 PM
>To: 'george byrkit'; 'Bill Tracey'
>Subject: RE: [hpsdr] Magister USB driver for Windows 7 x64
>
>Hi, guys.
>
>
>
>Thank you, George, for replying so promptly.
>
>
>
>At the moment I have Magister in slot J2 and Mercury in slot J5. I have 
>a Penelope board, but I thought that I first have the receiver working 
>and then integrate the Penelope and the Hercules which I still have to 
>complete assembling.
>
>
>
>I am not sure about the JTAG jumpers since I am not familiar with the 
>boards. As far as I can see, the "Last JTAG" (JP7) in Mercury is not 
>set. In Magister I can see 2 jumpers that may be related to the JTAG 
>sequence: JP6 - set on the lower 2 pins (probably 2-3 (PS=0-FAS=1)) and 
>JP7 - set on the upper 2 pins (probably 1-2 (AS=0-PS=1)). I am looking 
>at the board with the Atlas connector down. Is this OK? I haven't found 
>any instruction manual for the Magister. What about other jumpers? In 
>Ozy manual it says 3 jumpers have to be set.
>
>
>
>I just noticed that on the Mercury board the revision is not indicated, 
>it just says: Mercury DDC RX Rev A. And there is no S/N. Is this normal?
>
>
>
>Vy 73
>
>Isaac 4Z1AO