The current Winbond PROM W25Q64JVSSIMT (which is used on several Struck products) has an ID code that is not supported by the Impact software.
You have to set the following environment variable on the PC you are using the JTAG programmer on:
XIL_IMPACT_SKIPIDCODECHECK=1
Please refer to:
Issue:
“error Usb driver VfyAlloc” upon vme_A16D16_read() with LabWindows CVI V2015 on Windows 7 machine with driver version 1.1
Fix:
Upgrade to driver version 1.2
www.struck.de/sis3153w_1.2.zip
A Poster on “The ESS FPGA Framework and its Application on the ESS LLRF System” was presented during the 2017 LLRF Workshop in Barcelona.
The framework was developed in a close cooperation between ESS ERIC, Lund University and Struck Innovative Systeme for the SIS8300-KU digitizer.
The PDF of the poster can be accessed here.
Prefetchable base address capability has to be enabled on the PEX8311 PCI Express to local bus bridge chip to perform 64-bit direct master or DMA transfers. This is of relevance on machines from 4 GB of memory on. The corresponding bits can be set through the configuration EEPROM of the PEX8311. Units with serial number 94 and higher are shipped with this configuration. The EEPROM can be regrogrammed with the PLX Technology SDK.
An Archive with the PROM contents, instructions and software can be found here.
The SIS3153 Ethernet to VME interfaces with serial numbers in the range from 16 to 39 have a some 10% probability reset issue at power up.
Please have trained personel remove resistor R200A to remedy the erroneous pulldown.
USB3.0 operation is not affected.
Rare difficulties with I2C user bus data Transfer upon
setting attenuators or reading I2C devices.
Fix: removal of capacitor C48 (by trained personnel)
Shipments from October 10th 2016 onwards will have C48 removed.
Temporary fix without Hardware modification:
Set DACA output to maximum output (3.3V)
DWC8300 R10 cards are not affected.
SIS3100, SIS3300, SIS3301 SIS3820 and several other Struck boards use the Xilinx XC18V04 Serial PROM to hold the firmware that is uploaded to the FPGA at power up.
Depending on the Impact version and the Silicon of the XC18V04 you may get an error message indicating, that the IDCODE of your PROM does not meet the expectance.
INFO:iMPACT:583 – ‘2’: The idcode read from the device does not match the idcode in the bsdl File.
INFO:iMPACT:1578 – ‘2’: Device IDCODE : 00000101000000100110000010010011
INFO:iMPACT:1579 – ‘2’: Expected IDCODE: 00000101000000110110000010010011
You will want to locate and modify the xc18v04.bsd file:
..\ISE_DS\ISE\xc18v00\data\ xc18v04.bsd
Original:
attribute IDCODE_REGISTER of XC18V04: entity is
“XXXX” & — version
“0101000000110110” & — part number
“00001001001” & — manufacturer’s id
“1”; — required by standard
New:
attribute IDCODE_REGISTER of XC18V04: entity is
“XXXX” & — version
“01010000001X0110” & — part number
“00001001001” & — manufacturer’s id
“1”; — required by standard
You may want to refer to the URLs below also:
The (non AXI) PCI Express endpoint of the Virtex 6 can be rendered inaccessible after a PME_turn_off command (from a CPU reboot). A core reset was added to the pcie_interface.vhd as a workaround in that situation with minor firmware revision 0x0E.
The ready to use PROM files for the DWC and SIS8900 versions can be dowloaded from:
URLs for the macro versions will be emailed on request.
We would like to thank the team at N.A.T for the support in locating the issue and testing the workaround implementation.
Super Heavy Element (SHE) production imposes stringent requirements on trigger generation. TAMU uses a set of four 16 channel 250 MSPS 14-bit SIS3316 digitizers to read out a setup consisting of YAP and Silicon detectors.
An advanced triggering scheme utilizing the more recent SIS3316 high energy trigger in combination with trigger mask functionality is employed.
Thanks to Sara Wuenschel-Horn for the description of the setup.
Fini Jastrow of DESY has developed a SIS8300-L2 VI, which is based on Struck’s single read, single write, DMA read and DMA write Windows Driver calls.
It is available to interested parties under the Lesser Gnu Public License (LGPL).
Screenshots of the menu, the running code and the block diagram are shown below.
Thanks a lot to Fini Jastrow for the contribution.
