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<[email protected]> · Fri, 27 May 2016 08:28:16 +0000

Hi Tim,

That's good to hear, I'll let you know (and post to tech talk) when we have pushed to GitHub and open hardware.

What are your timescales for running softGlueZynq on some real hardware? If it coincides with one of our prototype orders we might be able to get you a board early to test. Alternatively you could wait until we've got everything tested and documented next year.

Thanks,
Tom Cobb    

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mooney, Tim M. [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 26 May 2016 16:24
> To: Cobb, Tom (DLSLtd,RAL,TEC); [email protected]; tech-
> [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; O'Ryan, Liam; Goldsbrough, Roger; Turner, Chris
> (DLSLtd,RAL,TEC); [email protected]; Uzun, Isa
> (DLSLtd,RAL,TEC)
> Subject: RE: EPICS meeting : HW platform support discussion group
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Ok, first of all, I'm interested in everything you guys do, and this is
> particularly cool.  I'm pretty sure I could find a use for some of your FPGA IP
> in softGlue.  If not, I can at least learn from it.  We also plan to put our IP on
> github, but I'm not sure what's the most convenient form.  Maybe as an
> archived Vivado project.
> 
> Running softGlueZynq on the PandA seems like a very good idea.  I can't
> wait to try it.
> 
> Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
> Beamline Controls Group (www.aps.anl.gov)
> Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 4:03 AM
> To: Mooney, Tim M.; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; yves-
> [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: EPICS meeting : HW platform support discussion group
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> Diamond and SOLEIL are currently collaborating on the Zebra2/PandA
> project to create something similar. I understand that you probably won't be
> interested in our FPGA firmware and software stack as you already have
> softGlue, but if you are looking for a 1U platform to run your Zynq enabled
> version of softGlue on, you could use a PandA box.
> 
> The box is based on a PicoZed 7030 (http://zedboard.org/product/picozed),
> and connects the FPGA pins to 10x TTL outputs, 6x TTL inputs, 2x LVDS
> outputs, 2x LVDS inputs, 3x Gigabit transceivers, 1x standard LPC FMC slot,
> 4x RS422 quadrature/absolute encoder inputs, 4x RS422
> quadrature/absolute encoder outputs, and an optional external clock. The
> ARM has Gigabit ethernet, console and USB exposed.
> 
> The firmware and software stack has fixed logic blocks rewired at runtime in
> a similar (but not identical) way to softGlue, a TCP server that runs on the
> box to do control and exposed data captured from the FPGA via DMA, and a
> webserver with a GUI that lets you rewire the blocks. An EPICS driver will
> run off the box as it writes data so needs filesystem access.
> 
> The hardware, firmware and software stack will be placed on open
> hardware and github at the end of the collaboration (probably the end of
> this year), and you will be able to buy a box with support from Quantum
> Detectors next year.
> 
> Chris Turner will be giving a talk on this at the EPICS meeting today at 2pm.
> Here is the PDF version of his slides:
> http://controls.diamond.ac.uk/downloads/other/files/Zebra2-PandA-
> Development.pdf
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom Cobb
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:tech-talk-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mooney, Tim M.
> > Sent: 25 May 2016 21:31
> > To: Jeong Han Lee; EPICS mailing list
> > Cc: Jeong Han Lee
> > Subject: RE: EPICS meeting : HW platform support discussion group
> >
> > Hi Han,
> >
> > A number of us at the APS, in the beamline-controls and detector-
> > development groups, have been working to run EPICS on the Xilinx Zynq
> > device.  In the beamline-controls effort, the initial platform target is the
> > MicroZed (http://zedboard.org/product/microzed), and the initial
> > development target is the synApps softGlue module
> > (https://github.com/epics-modules/softGlue), and the FPGA content used
> > by softGlue.
> >
> > Working with a cross compiler developed by Andrew Johnson and Steve
> > Shoaf (the target arch "linux-arm") we have EPICS base, and the modules
> > included with synApps that don't depend on VME or other hardware (e.g.,
> > asyn, seq, autosave, calc, sscan, etc., etc.), running on the MicroZed.   We
> > also have most of softGlue ported and running (no field I/O yet; also no
> > interrupt support), and have developed a simple procedure for adding
> > custom components to the FPGA, and controlling them from EPICS.
> >
> > Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
> > Beamline Controls Group (www.aps.anl.gov)
> > Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: [email protected] [[email protected]]
> on
> > behalf of Jeong Han Lee [[email protected]]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 2:09 PM
> > To: EPICS mailing list
> > Cc: Jeong Han Lee
> > Subject: EPICS meeting : HW platform support discussion group
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >    As you may know, the next EPICS conference will be held in Lund,
> > Sweden at next week (inspired by Torsten's Motor WG email).
> >
> >    I assigned myself to join that discussion, then I was told today by
> > Timo to collect some subjects, which we would like to discuss during
> > that HWPS DG (HW Platform Support Discussion Group? hmm, not
> > awesome)
> > meeting. Here is the description for that WG meeting.
> >
> >   "Discussion about support of different hardware platforms (RPi, MTCA,
> > design sharing, open source solutions,FPGA...) in EPICS"
> >
> >    I don't think, we are late to collect or share what we want to do.
> > Thus, here I copied ideas from Motor WG
> >
> >        Thoughts ? Suggestions ? Special Topics ?
> >
> >    One might get some ideas from also again Motor WG at
> > https://github.com/EuropeanSpallationSource/epics-mwg-
> > discussions/tree/master/documents
> >
> >    I would a appreciate all kind of feedback/answers as soon as possible .
> >
> >    Thanks,
> >    Han
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jeong Han Lee, Dr.rer.nat.
> >
> > Control System Engineer
> > Integrated Control System Division
> >
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