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[01:41:34] <PCW_> mighty quiet here...
[02:07:56] <jepler> pcw: we're all in chris's shop working hard
[02:12:35] <LawrenceG> what are you guys building on a Friday night? ... hangover?
[02:17:09] <skunkworks> a machine conversion hangover!
[02:17:44] <LawrenceG> nothing like a little black grease under the fingernails
[02:26:34] <jepler> seb is looking at cradek's old bridgeport with an eye to conversion, and stuart and I are just taking up space
[02:27:16] <LawrenceG> cool.... wish I was closer
[02:28:07] <jepler> yeah, these guys are all within a day's drive of us
[02:29:46] <LawrenceG> I wonder if a bridgeport could be packed in a container.... moving those across country is not too expensive
[02:35:25] <jepler> I think so. shipping containers seem to be 7'+ inside and with a moderate amount of disassembly the machine will fit through shop doors and garage doors upright
[03:07:31] <steves_logging> steves_logging is now known as steve_stallings
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[17:42:32] <pcw_home> 1 2 3 is this thing on?
[17:55:04] <LawrenceG> hi Peter
[18:06:05] <pcw_home> hi Lawrence
[18:08:28] <LawrenceG> how did you get started in writing code for fpgas? I am thinking of a few ham radio applicators that might fit on a mesa card
[18:08:44] <LawrenceG> applications
[18:09:32] <micges> hi pcw_home
[18:09:57] <LawrenceG> I am thinking of a daughter card that has some rf speed a/d chips
[18:11:28] <pcw_home> Long story, I'm more of a hardware guy that got dragged into the FPGA stuff by necessity
[18:11:30] <pcw_home> (hi micges)
[18:12:29] <pcw_home> For high speed you need to consider cable termination
[18:14:37] <LawrenceG> yes... the mesa card (5i20) is one of the few fast ways to get data in and out of a pc these days.... I hate USB... the standard has been around forever and there are still piles of broken hardware and drivers on the market
[18:15:38] <LawrenceG> USB was very much an example of design by committee ...
[18:16:15] <pcw_home> On our stuff we usually parallel terminate FPGA outputs at the daughter card
[18:16:16] <pcw_home> and series terminate daughtercard outputs
[18:16:18] <pcw_home> This works with all FPGAs. Spartan3 and above have built in termination
[18:16:19] <pcw_home> but we need the daughter cards to be SP2 compatible
[18:16:21] <pcw_home> ( USB is so complicated its not surprising its still so buggy)
[18:17:53] <pcw_home> For high speed data acquisition I would recommend the 5I23 or 5I22 as they support DMA
[18:18:13] <LawrenceG> yea... I played with a pic trying to make a usb midi interface work.... the results were not promising
[18:19:15] <LawrenceG> that could be useful
[18:26:44] <pcw_home> Also we expect to have to low cost PCIE cards out later this year
[18:38:15] <LawrenceG> excellent
[19:14:26] <pcw_home> bbl
[19:21:13] <jepler> hoooray, all the cards seb brought work with the firmwares I built
[19:21:22] <jepler> now just fiddling with the packaging process a bit..
[19:22:38] <pcw_home> jepler: I added the index(and probe) on the stepgen feature
[19:24:35] <jepler> pcw_home: cool. that makes it "stepgen v3" I suppose?
[19:25:07] <pcw_home> Yes V3
[19:25:56] <pcw_home> Changes wont affect existing driver
[19:26:17] <jepler> I think the hal driver will reject an unknown stepgen version, though
[19:27:58] <pcw_home> Its bigger enough that you dont want it to be the default so its only there if you have Stepgen index pins
[19:28:42] <jepler> also we could bump the accepted version to 3 even if the v3 features aren't supported yet (a one-line change)
[19:30:37] <pcw_home> Maybe I need a major/minor version scheme, minor add features or bugfix but does not require driver changes
[19:31:48] <jepler> are there bits spare, or are you faced with dividing the 8 (?) bits of version into major/minor?
[19:32:11] <pcw_home> Just 8 bits...
[19:33:22] <pcw_home> Of course major could be a new module tag...
[19:35:46] <pcw_home> The 8 bit version numbers are per module versions, there isn't a global firmware version
[19:38:12] <jepler> the idrom version could be thought of as a global version
[19:39:43] <jepler> bbl
[19:40:42] <pcw_home> bye
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