Name: Caribou Developers Meeting
Start: 2024-09-03T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-03T17:30:00+02:00
Location: No location set

- 16:00 → 16:10
  General News 10m
  
  Speaker: Younes Otarid (CERN)
  PIXEL conference
  
  11th PIXEL Conference
  
  Caribou abstact got accepted for a Poster
  
  Date: 18 - 22 November 2024
  
  Caribou Users Meeting
  
  Soon a call for Users meeting will be sent
  
  Objectives:
  
  1 meeting / month
  
  Maybe to frequent. Either specific calls or reserved slot with 2-days prior decision
  
  Latest updates/releases in hardware, firmware and software
  
  Feedback from users
  
  From time to time, invitation directed to users to present their latest developments/results using Caribou
- 16:10 → 16:35
  Hardware 25m
  
  Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Shaochun Tang (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Tomas Vanat (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)
  CaR board v2.0
  
  Still working on the test-board
  
  Mostly finihsed with the schematics
  
  No estimate for the layout
  
  Follow-up on Carboard v1.4 from DESY with broken connector repaired at CERN (Tomas, Eric)
  
  Connector repair was successful, but board had issue with powering afterwards
  
  Found a broken line under an AND gate on the board. Fixed by placing additional wire.
  
  Damage to line could have happened during repair (heating up of the PCB), but difficult to be sure about it
  
  Similar issue was once seen on a Carboard in the testbeam at CERN, which suddenly failed. Should try to find it back and see if it has the same cause.
- 16:35 → 17:00
  Firmware 25m
  
  Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Tomas Vanat (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)
  Boreal firmware:
  
  New Boreal architecture finalized
  
  Improved versatility using modular architecture relying on Vivado Block Designs (BD), chained AXI interconnects, and packaged IPs
  
  New architecture tested with LED blinking firmware and Peary control:
  
  Succesfull on both ZC706 and ZCU102
  
  Currently working on porting H2M design as pilot project for the new architecture
  
  Targetting a test-beam at the end of September to test it
  
  A detailed presentation describing the new architecture and workflow will come very soon
- 17:00 → 17:25
  Software - OS 25m
  
  Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Mathieu Benoit (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)), Simon Spannagel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)
  Peta-Caribou
  
  Improved image building workflow now covers all needs for the standard Caribou system use.
  
  Create, configure and build petalinux image
  
  Update, build and deploy recipes (ie: EUDAQ, Peary)
  
  Package and load image onto SD card, including bitfile
  
  Dynamic bitfile modification now possible and uses uEnv.txt file as was done in the meta-caribou workflo
  
  All the workflow is easily managed by the Peta-Manager tool
  
  Refer to the User Manual
  
  Successfull build of images for ZC706 and ZCU102
  
  Remaining issue: ZCU102 MAC address seems to be overwritten during u-Boot. Currently investigating the reason.
  
  Prospects:
  
  Support of Mercury+ ST1 board and XU1 SoM.
  
  BSP file provided by Enclustra is only compatible with Petalinux 2022.1. Investigating how to make/get a BSP compatible with Petalinux 2023.2
  
  Peary
  
  Clean up to prepare porting to 64bit systems
  
  Implementing multi-device support
- 17:25 → 17:30
  
  AOB 5m