New SIS3820 APG Arbitrary Pattern Gernerator w. I/O firmware

Posted on June 12, 2013 by mki

The new firmware is targeted at the Inline and LVDS on LEMO 00.302 style connector hardware options. It features a 12 bit pattern generator (4 control and 8 frontend outputs) with external wait and wrap functionality. 12 input (4 control and 8 frontend) can be read from a direct and a latched register with the option to use any of the inputs as latch condition.

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SIS3150 LINUX driver under Ubuntu 12.04

Posted on May 22, 2013 by mki

Thanks to Volker Hannen from the University of Münster for bringing to our attention:
Under Ubuntu 12.04 the USB library resides in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ and is not found by the configure script.

Setting the link below allows for compilation
/usr/lib/libusb.a -> i386-linux-gnu/libusb.a

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New SIS3316 firmware online

Posted on April 12, 2013 by mki

New SIS3316 firmware online under struck.de/sis3316firm.html . Featuring fully licensed Ethernet core and external bank switch.

release related to Firmware Versions

– VME FPGA: V3316-2003 (0x33162003)

– ADC FPGAs: V0250-0003 (0x02500003)

Bug fixes:

– UDP read of ADC FPGA Status registers (0x1100 – 0x113C)

Added features:

– “FP-Bus Bank Swap Control” Logic

– “Sample Bank Swap Control with NIM Input TI/UI” Logic

Modifications:

– extended LEMO Out “CO”, “TO” and “UO” Select registers with new sources

– extended Acquisition Control register

– added new Key address: EnableSample Bank Swap Control with NIM Input TI/UI logic

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Windows 8 support for Struck USB and PCI(e) VME interfaces

Posted on March 27, 2013 by mki

We do have Windows 8 support for our USB to VME  and PCI/PCI Express interfaces starting with the SIS3150 driver release v3.0 and the SIS1100e/310x driver release 6.4.2.4

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SIS1100e/310x LINUX driver 2.13-8 online

Posted on March 20, 2013 by mki

Patched for kernel up to 3.8.0
Tested to be working up to kernel 3.7.10 (openSUSE 12.3)

SIS1100(e)/310x page with  2.13-8

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SIS1100e/310x LINUX driver opensuse 12.3rc1 at kernel 3.7.6

Posted on February 8, 2013 by mki

Thanks to Tibor Keri from the University of Glasgow for bringing the following to our attention:

In kernel 3.7-rc1, the flag VM_RESERVED is removed

The implication is, that sis11_mmap.c requires the following patch:

/*   offset in bytes           + size of mapping          */

if ((vma->vm_pgoff<<PAGE_SHIFT)+(vma->vm_end-vma->vm_start)>

PAGE_ALIGN(size))

return -EINVAL;

/* start of patch  */

#ifndef VM_RESERVED

# define  VM_RESERVED   (VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP)

#endif

/* end of patch  */

vma->vm_flags |= VM_RESERVED;

vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO;

vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTEXPAND;

vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);

 

Refer to the following links also:

https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2012-October/005392.html

https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2012-October/005395.html

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New SIS3316 250 MSPS 14-bit digitizer firmware with standalone Ethernet support

Posted on January 29, 2013 by mki

The 2nd major revision of the SIS3316 firmware is online under www.struck.de/sis3316firm.html. Besides bug fixes it offers GBit Ethernet functionality and a dual threshold mechanism.

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12-bit 250 MSPS SIS3320-250 Digitizer input range options

Posted on September 12, 2012 by mki

A table with the available standard input range and impedance options was added to the SIS3320-250 digitizer page. Be advised, that custom configurations are available also.

SIS3320-250 web page

A configuration table can be found at:

sis3320-250-AT-010312-1-v101-configuration.pdf

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16-bit 100 MSPS SIS3302 Digitizer input range options

Posted on August 23, 2012 by mki

A table with the available standard input range and impedance options was added to the SIS3302 digitizer page. Be advised, that custom configurations are available also.

SIS3302 web page

A configuration table can be found at:

sis3302-AT-1-1-v111-configuration_english.pdf

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16 Channel 125/250 MSPS SIS3316 VME Digitizer Presentation

Posted on August 22, 2012 by mki

While firmware development for the SIS3316 is ongoing, first detector signals have been acquired with the 250 MSPS 14-bit version of the module.

The PDF presentation under the link below highlights the design and the functionality of the card and addresses firmware development directions in connection with a first 5 card user setup.

SIS3316 PDF presentation (updated on March 20th of 2014)

SIS3316 web page

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