IBOB_Acceptance_Procedure - david-macmahon/wiki_convert_test GitHub Wiki

  • Reference to Peter McMahon's Parspec user manual, "A 400MHz 1024-channel 2-input, 10GbE Spectrometer for the Parkes Radio Telescope, V1.0".
  • First, it has to eat power, DC 5V, there is only on power input in the board. 2A is OK for no iADC.
  • Upon the iBOB have in hand, there is a label with "programmed and tested" by Digicom. That means there is a firmware in it, even you have no idea of what exactly is in the board.
  • Don't download anything by Xilinx's software.
  • Connect the RS232 from iBOB to your computer. For my instance, Windows XP's hyper-terminal was used. Users have to make your own adaptor from standard RS232 9 pins connector convert to the one row 5 pins on iBOB board as illustated in the picture. Be careful about the Tx and Rd pins, if it doesn't work, try to reverse it,then try again.
  • Digicom's factory setting is 115200, 8 bit None parity ,1 stop bit, no flow control.
  • If everything works well and have good luck too, the terminal should have message as the following :
  • I disconnected the iADC for safety, turned out errors pop out as it showed.

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****************************                              * TinySH lightweight shell *                             ****************************     Design name : ibob_ata_ddc                           Compiled on : 29-Jun-2007 03:51:00                                   DON'T PANIC ; Type 'help' for help                     Type '?' for a list of available commands                                          ERROR: ADC clocks not fed properly                                    Initializing LWIP Memory Structur                                  Starting Network Interface...                                Intializing netif...                      Done.        Initializing TCP Stack...                            Done.        Initializing UDP...                      Done.       Setting up LWIP interace...                             Adding interface as default...                                Attempting bootstrap....                          Telnet Server Running.                        LWIP initialization complete.                             

  • If want to know the IP address of the board, key in ifconfig, it will reply you the information like this:

MAC Address: 00-6D-12-1B-80-00                               IP Address: 169.254.128.0                           Subnet Mask: 0.0.0.0                     GW Address: 0.0.0.0                     Telnet Port: 23               

  • Once you got the IP of your iBOB, try to connect it by telnet( This can be easily executed in Linux).:

[homin@homin ~]$ telnet 169.254.128.0 Trying 169.254.128.0... Connected to 169.254.128.0 (169.254.128.0). Escape character is '^]'. **************************** * TinySH lightweight shell * **************************** Design name : ibob_ata_ddc Compiled on : 29-Jun-2007 03:51:00 DON'T PANIC ;-) Type 'help' for help Type '?' for a list of available commands IBOB %

  • The functions of RS232 and Ethernet are the same i guess, users can use its to access the TinyShell.
  • At this point, the RS232 and Ethernet port have worked well.
  • You might just plug the iADC directly as i did. The LEDs on the front panel was blinking in a fast way, that is due to the 2A power supply isn't big enough. Replaced it by a 10A power supply as specified in this Wiki, it backs to work.