Caribou Developers Meeting

Tuesday 11 Jun 2024, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

Younes Otarid (CERN)

16:00 → 16:10 General News

Speaker: Younes Otarid (CERN)

• Ongoing 1st FPGA Developers' Forum (FDF) with live webcast. (link)
• DRD3 Workshop starting next week Monday 17.06 (link)
  • Caribou talk on Friday 21.06 at 9:00 am (link)

16:10 → 16:35 Hardware

Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Shaochun Tang (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Tomas Vanat (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)

CaR board v1.5

• Production
  
  • Order for 31 boards is now officially received by Safiral
  • Payment details were resolved internally between purchasing office and Safiral
  • Safiral informed us that the order for components is now out. They will inform us delivery time of board as soon as components are received
  • Access to design and production files on the Gitlab repository (link)
  • Financial contribution from RD50 and DRD3 is still to be confirmed. Users will be informed as soon this is clarified.
• Testing
  • Need to prepare for functional testing
  • Tests done at BNL are a bit tedious to be deployed for a large batch of boards
  • Need to think of an alternative test approach and brainstorm list of tests to be perfomed to assess the functionality of the board

16:35 → 17:00 Firmware

Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Tomas Vanat (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)

Nothing to report

17:00 → 17:25 Software - OS

Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Mathieu Benoit (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)), Simon Spannagel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)

Caribou OS

• Focused on boot image generation for ZCU102 and ZC706 using petalinux: 
  • ZCU102:
    • Successful build
    • Successful boot
    • Board is accessible on network and includes both Peary and EUDAQ (for now as apps not as Yocto recipies)
    • Next steps:
      • Apply device tree patches to support I2C switching
      • Figure out the workflow for updating Peary, EUDAQ and firmware bitfiles. Might have to move to Yoco recipies and keep the same original workflow but using the petalinux-devtool 
  • ZC706:
    • Successful build
    • Issue booting. Still investigating
    • Next steps:
      • Fix booting issue
  • Test can be done using the adaptor board on the ZCU102

17:25 → 17:30 AOB