Mesa 5i20 Smart Serial supporting Firmware

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19 Sep 2012 20:13 #24429 by Nick
Hi!

Are there any firmwares for Mesa 5i20 that allows using Smart Serial daughter cards (7i74 for example).

Thanks in advance :)

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19 Sep 2012 21:00 #24430 by BigJohnT
The 7i74 is for 25 pin I/O FPGA cards like 5i25. I'm pretty sure you can use a 7i44 with a 5i20.

John

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19 Sep 2012 21:03 #24432 by PCW
Yes, there are several 5I20 configs that include SSerial (for 7I52, 7I44, 7I47 RS-422 interfaces at least)

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19 Sep 2012 21:04 #24433 by Nick
ups, yes 7i44. Anyway are there any firmwares to support them?
There are no *SS-kind firmwares in /hm2/5i20

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19 Sep 2012 21:25 - 19 Sep 2012 21:26 #24435 by PCW
Yes there is a SVSS4_8 and a SVSS6_8 (for 7I33 and 7I44 or 7I48 and 7I44) plus some for 7I52 (SVSS6_6)
What configuration do you need?

Note that the 5I20's FPGA is not very big so theres a limit to what will fit
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19 Sep 2012 21:53 - 19 Sep 2012 21:53 #24438 by Nick
SVSS4_8.

PS is there special place where with all firmwares are stored, or you are making them on fly?
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19 Sep 2012 22:49 - 19 Sep 2012 22:50 #24439 by PCW
The source for all the latest is in the 5i20.zip file from Mesa
The hm2 buildbot really really needs an update to the latest firmware

I have been building these by hand (there are hundreds of possible bitfiles now)
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20 Sep 2012 16:12 #24476 by Nick
Wow! That's a lot :).

But how do we make a firmware out of PIN files. There's no make file in the archive from Mesa.
I've tried to unpack /5i20/CONFIGS/HOSTMOT2/SOURCE/hostmot2.zip over the snapshot of hostmot2 git repository and tried to use it's makefile, with no success. Having this message as a result:
Firmware requires one of these ise major versions to build: 10 9

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20 Sep 2012 16:53 - 20 Sep 2012 16:56 #24486 by PCW
Thats true for the 5I20 and 4I65 (that use Spartan 2 FPGAs) you need Xilinx weppack
(the free version of ISE) versions 9 or 10. I use 9.2i for Spartan 2
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29 Sep 2012 04:19 - 29 Sep 2012 04:21 #24709 by dmaster
:silly: Could you give a step by step guide how to create a firmware for Mesa 5I20 for Smart Serial daughter card (7i44 + 7i70 and 7i71)?
using Xilinx is over my head
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