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Products => Board Support Package (Installation, Licensing, ...) => Topic started by: curryj on December 15, 2014, 11:26 PM

Title: FMC Analyzer/VP780/FMC176
Post by: curryj on December 15, 2014, 11:26 PM

Hello,

I am attempting to run the 4FM FMC Analyzer on my VP780 with an FMC176 installed. Earlier today I downloaded and installed v2.250.1 of the BSP software. I am running the VP780/FMC176 reference design (Constellation ID 294) using its recovery .hex file, found at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\4dsp\Common\Firmware\Recovery\294_vp780_fmc176\294_vp780_fmc176_1140t.hex

So I've loaded this .hex file into FPGA A, and power-cycled the board, as instructed to do by the 4FM GUI Application. I then opened 4FM FMC Analyzer, and selected the following items:
-FMC Card: FMC176
-Carrier: VP780
-Available Interfaces: PCIe
-Device to connect: Device 0
-Clock Mode: Internal Clock

I clicked "Open Device" and got the following error message in a popup dialog:
"FMC card initialization error: Unable to connect to FPGA device. Perhaps an incorrect device id was used or incorrect firmware was loaded?"

The console window that opened up when I clicked "Open Device" contains the following text:
" [size=0pt]Connected FPGA Device Type: XC7VX1140T-2FXG1930C
 
 Start of program
 --------------------------------------
 Constellation ID : 294
 Number of Stars  : 8
 Software Build   : 0x540968FD
 Firmware Build   : 0x00000000
 Firmware Version : 0.257
 --------------------------------------
 
 Constellation ID not supported by this software, exiting...[/size]"


Is this constellation supported by 4FM FMC Analyzer? Have I done something incorrectly in attempting to run this firmware/software? Is there a different constellation that I should be using instead?


Thank you!


Jim

Title: Re: FMC Analyzer/VP780/FMC176
Post by: arnaudNL on December 16, 2014, 06:35 AM

Jim,


The Analyzer does not support all constellations unfortunately. In this case you should experiment with FMC176APP which is using the same code. The application saves date buffers to the hard disk and you can visualize these buffer using Visual Analog, a free tool you can download from Analog Devices's website!


Best Regards,
Arnaud

Title: Re: FMC Analyzer/VP780/FMC176
Post by: curryj on December 16, 2014, 12:54 PM

Arnaud,

Thanks for confirming this. I was about to move on the the FMC176App, but had been unaware of Visual Analog. Thanks for the tip!


Jim

Title: Re: FMC Analyzer/VP780/FMC176
Post by: arnaudNL on December 16, 2014, 06:06 PM

Hello Jim,


Attached is a Visual Analog project file able to deal with the buffer created by the application, it will get handy.


You can open that project file from Visual Analog, everything is configured to have time and frequency domain analysis!


Best Regards,
Arnaud

Title: Re: FMC Analyzer/VP780/FMC176
Post by: curryj on December 16, 2014, 06:27 PM

Thanks, that project works perfectly.

Title: Re: FMC Analyzer/VP780/FMC176
Post by: arnaudNL on December 18, 2014, 09:45 AM

This topic is being closed because the issue is considered as resolved by 4DSP. Feel free to create a new topic for any further inquiries.