ROACH_test_machine - david-macmahon/wiki_convert_test GitHub Wiki

This section will list all the hardware and software needed to configure and build a ROACH test machine.

Computer Hardware

• Minimum requirement: Intel Pentium D CPU 3.00GHz with 2 GB of RAM
• Harddisk space of at least 30 GBytes to install the required software.
• 2 x 1-Gig Ethernet ports, 3 if an outside link is required
• Serial port (DB-9 male or provided by USB to serial port adapter)
• 3 x USB ports in addition to keyboard and mouse ports

Support Hardware

• Xilinx JTAG Platform Cable (USB)
  • P/N HW-USB-II-G or UW-USB-II-G $225 or $125 respectively at http://em.avnet.com
• Actel FlashPro3 (USB)
  • P/N Actel FlashPro3 $138 at http://www.mouser.com/

  The Actel FlashPro3 is marked end of life and may be hard to find.   The current product is the FlashPro 4; however this unit has not been exercised   as of 2010mar22.

• Macraigor usb2Demon or usbWiggler (USB)
  • P/N Macraigor usbWiggler for AMCC 4xx (U2W-AMCC) PowerPC processor $250 at http://www.macraigor.com/
• USB flash drive formatted with partition 1 as FAT32 to store the roach_bsp.bin test files (exercise via uboot's run bit)
  • roach_bsp.bin may be found at http://casper.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/roach/production/test_software/roach_testing/gen_files/fpga copy latest version to top level directory of this USB flash drive and rename to roach_bsp.bin.
• USB flash drive (512MB or larger) formatted with partition 1 as ext2 to store the Linux Root file system.
  • The 2010mar24 version is filesystem.tar.gz 150MB (gzipped tar).
  • Boot to this USB flash drive via uboot's run usbboot.
  • after uboot's soloboot or mmcboot one may mount this USB flash drive.
  • See Getting Started with ROACH for more details.

Cables and connectors

• Standard serial cable (default is DB-9 socket at both ends)
• 2 x Ethernet cables (or 3 if outside link is required)
• 2 x 10GigE CX4 cables (for loopback tests)
• 2 x CASPER Z-DOK Loopback tester boards

Primary Software

• Windows XP Professional 32-bit version
  • this is mandatory due to device drivers for at least some of the support hardware listed above.
• Cygwin standard install from http://www.cygwin.com/ and the following
• as installed on the RAL test machine (some may not be required):
• running cygcheck -s on the RAL machine returns with : RAL_cygcheck.txt (txt)
  • Base package
  • autoconf
  • automake
  • bash
  • bzip2
  • dbus
  • diffutils
  • docbook
  • grep
  • inetutils
  • netcat
  • openssh
  • perl
  • ping
  • propcs and psmisc (for pkill and the like)
  • python
  • rxvt VT102
  • screen
  • shutdown
  • subversion
  • tar
  • TCL/TK
  • termcap
  • time
  • transfig
  • unzip
  • vim
  • W32API
  • xaw3d
  • xdelta-devel
  • xdpinfo
  • zip

• • for development and extra work environments
    • binutils
    • gcc C, gcc g++ (C compiler and utilities)
    • X11 see http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-x-installing.html

• SolarWinds TFTP Server
  • http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/free_tftp_server.aspx
  • Version 9.2.0.111 requires about 10 MBytes of disk space. Other versions may be acceptable too.
• Actel FlashPro Version: 8.5.0.34, Release v8.5
  • http://www.actel.com/download/software/libero/libero85rl.aspx#download

  Actel Libero release v8.5 is an out of date version and requires about 1.1 GByte of disk space.   If a copy is not available from Actel directly a copy can be made from an existing setup.

• Xilinx Impact Version: 10.1.03 (nt), Application Version: K.39
  • actually only the WebPACK 10.1 package is required and can be found at
  • http://www.xilinx.com/webpack/classics/wpclassic/
  • WebPACK 10.1 is a 2.3 GByte download and requires 4.6 GByte of disk space.
• Lantronix DeviceInstaller 4.2.0.1 for XPort 1001001-03R Embedded Ethernet Device Server
  • http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/utilities-tools/device-installer.html
  • DeviceInstaller requires 6 MByte of disk space.
• OCD Commander Version: 2.5.6 for Macraigor Systems usbWiggler
  • http://www.macraigor.com/ocd_cmd.htm
  • OCD Commander requires about 13 MByte of disk space.
• Virtual Serial Ports Emulator
  • this may not be required. The RAL ROACH test machine uses this to access the
  • USB<->serial port adapter. With this a hyperterminal window may be used to snoop
  • on the serial link for low level debugging.
  • http://www.eterlogic.com/Products.VSPE.html

Secondary Software

• TightVNC Server to allow remote experts to access the local test machine for black-belt debugging.
  • Stable revision 1.3.10 from http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php
• Wireshark network analyzer to monitor network traffic across the 3 NICs
  • stable version 1.2.6 http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
• Winscp scp and sftp client
  • revision 4.2.7 from http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
• Powerarchiver 2001 or equivalent to process bzip2, gzip, rar, zip, and related archives.
  • http://www.powerarchiver.com/

Contact

For any ROACH issues, check the CASPER mailing list archive or submit questions to the CASPER Mailing List.