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Virtual machine installation for ISE 14.7/Impact

Impact -as part of the ISE tool chain- is required to program older Xilinx FPGAs (respective their attached FLASH memory chips), like the Spartan-2 family on the SIS3316 VME digitizer. The document below describes how to install a virtual machine … Continue reading

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SIS3153 USB VfyAlloc Error with Windows driver 1.1

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

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SIS8300-L2 Windows Labview Support

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 … Continue reading

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Windows (and LabVIEW) Support for SIS8300-x, SIS8325 and SIS8800 MTCA.4 cards

A signed Windows driver with the following functions is available: open, close, single word read, single word write, DMA read, DMA write. So far it is tested under Windows 7. Mininmalistic LabVIEW VIs are available for that function set too. … Continue reading

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