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You're having quadrature encoder troubles? The two bits of the quadrature encoder are like a 2-bit Gray counter. Consider what it might take to turn these 2 bits into an n-bit Gray counter, then decode the gray to binary when it's in the clock domain of interest. If done properly, chatter on one of the two quadrature inputs will not result in anything except chatter on one bit of the Gray value.Article: 95051
John Larkin wrote: > > > In the sense that capitalism spreads wealth from the richest to the > poorest parts of the world, it's profoundly liberal. It's neither liberal nor conservative. It's a market, it does what markets do- which is optimise for the market. I could talk about selfish memes, but only if I thought Mr. Aylward wasn't looking. When it is creating employment in areas with an employment problem, good (in my opinion). When it's transferring employment away from me, bad (in my opinion). Paul BurkeArticle: 95052
If you were a european I'd credit you with subtle use of irony.... But I'm sure you're a nice guy really :-)Article: 95053
Hi, I'm new to this group - not sure if this question has been answered already... The Xilinx 2Pro-X MGTs suffer from a number of defects. One of them being that the receiver PLL locks up if the incoming serial data disappears, ceases to have the minimum number of transitions, or if it drifts outside a certain frequency range. This is all fine as long as there is a sure-fire recovery mechanism. Xilinx FAEs seem to recommend a reset procedure that affects the transmitted data path as well as the receive - it works for the most part: if the reset procedure is applied while "good" data is injected, it recovers. But the impact to the tx data path is not acceptable in some situations. Xilinx says to hit the PMA_INIT pin to get the rx to recover.. but this causes a bit of garbage to be output form the transmitter. Has anyone out there figured out how to get the receiver to lock consistently while not impacting the transmitter? I don't hold out much hope because it seems that Xilinx doesn't know the answer to this question. But if you can help me out here I will be one happy guy. P.S. Xilinx answer data base #20379 does not help.Article: 95054
Bryan Hackney wrote: > SioL wrote: > > "Lanarcam" <lanarcam1@yahoo.fr> wrote in message news:1137771805.545861.31220@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > > >>Bryan Hackney wrote: > >> > >>>And, um, what has Africa ever contributed to the world? > >> > >>No idea? > > > > > > Homo Sapiens? > > > > Supposedly the first man or woman came from there. > > > > That's not certain, but we do know where Newton, Galileo > and Chebyshev are from. And you know where the '0' comes from? Imagine a memory filled with only '1' ;-)Article: 95055
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:56:02 -0800, the renowned John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >On 20 Jan 2006 05:44:00 -0800, "Noway2" <no_spam_me2@hotmail.com> >wrote: > >>> The current US administration seems to be >>> obsessed with investing in military adventures, while places like India have >>> decided to invest in educating their people - which investment do you think >>> will pay off better in 20 years? It's all a matter of priorities. >> >>It is no secrete that the US, both the mass populace and the government >>administrations put far too little emphasis on education and this is >>causing a declining society. > >How is US society declining? Incomes, health, longevity, education >levels have been increasing steadily for 200 years, even while we have >admitted tens of millions of immigrants. Certainly not in mass. At the current rate of steady increase since 1960, the average American male age 40-49 will be over 7 feet tall and weigh roughly 533 pounds in 2525. ;-) I don't think UK, Canada etc. lag by much. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad347.pdf >>There is no way that as a society that >>the people will be able to compete with anybody when they have the >>highest illiteracy rate of the industrialized world. > >Any country that admits as many immigrants as we do, will have a high >illiteracy rate. Besides, some countries just lie about it. Do you >really think Cuba's literacy rate is 99%? > >John Ten times the illiteracy of Iceland? It's possible, although the CIA only admits to similar literacy levels to the US (97%), which is far worse than what they say about France and Germany (99%). They also say 99.8% for Poland and 99% for the UK. Cuba has sunk a lot of resources into literacy since the sixties, and have exported their training methods to greatly improve literacy in some of the poorer Mexican states. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.comArticle: 95056
Hi,
I tried to use MIG to generate the DDR interface for FX12 on ML403
board.
And the UCF generated by MIG is not consistent with the one from the
ML403 tutorial demo.
So I matched it by hand. The address and data bus are OK, but there are
still some pins I don't know. Do you guys know their correspondence?
Thanks.
By the way, the DDR ram chip on ML403 is Infineon HYB25D256160BT-7,
i.e. 32Mx16bits, 266MHz. And the that on MIG is Micron MT46V32M16P-5B
operating at 266MHz, which is also 32Mx16bits. Are they compatible?
# from MIG
NET "cntrl0_DDR_CK[0]" LOC = "D2"
; #Bank 6
NET "cntrl0_DDR_CK_N[0]" LOC = "D1"
; #Bank 6
NET "cntrl0_DDR_CK[1]" LOC = "E1"
; #Bank 6
NET "cntrl0_DDR_CK_N[1]" LOC = "F1"
; #Bank 6
NET "cntrl0_READ_EN_IN[0]" LOC = "E9" ;
#Bank 6
NET "cntrl0_READ_EN_OUT[0]" LOC = "F9" ;
#Bank 6
NET "SYS_CLK_P" LOC = "AF12" ;
#Bank 4
NET "SYS_CLK_N" LOC = "AE12" ;
#Bank 4
# differential clock used in the idelay_ctrl logic
NET "CLK200_P" LOC = "AC10" ;
#Bank 4 NET "CLK200_N" LOC =
"AB10" ; #Bank 4
#indicate whether the read and write data are the same
NET "cntrl0_ERROR" LOC = "W5" ;
#Bank 8
#from ML403 tutorial demo
NET ddr_ba<0> LOC = B12; # DDR_BA0
NET ddr_ba<1> LOC = A16; # DDR_BA1
NET ddr_casb LOC = F23; # DDR_CAS_N
NET ddr_cke LOC = G22; # DDR_CKE
NET ddr_csb LOC = G21; # DDR_CS_N
NET ddr_rasb LOC = F24; # DDR_RAS_N
NET ddr_web LOC = A23; # DDR_WE_N
NET ddr_clk LOC = A10; # DDR_CK1_P
NET ddr_clk_fb LOC = B13; # DDR_CK1_P (FEEDBACK)
NET ddr_clkb LOC = B10; # DDR_CK1_N
Article: 95057On 1/20/06 8:58 AM, in article 1137776297.373102.256560@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com, "amyler@eircom.net" <amyler@eircom.net> wrote: > If you were a european I'd credit you with subtle use of irony.... > > But I'm sure you're a nice guy really :-) > No, he isn't. By the way, notice how I quoted your post so everyone can see the relevance of my post? Monkey see, monkey do, please. DonArticle: 95058
> http://www.newhomes.com/homedetail.jsp?regionid=1374&homeid=31352&siteid=1
>
> Compare that to a $250,000 home in east Palo Alto or Oakland.
Is that a joke ? I saw the home ad... I could never afford something
remotely similar, here.
Just for curiosity... .My home, bought ("used") six months ago in Italy,
near a small town.
Converting in american units, just for easy of comparison...
Roughly 1000 square feet (100 m^2), no garden, third floor, built 25 (!)
years ago, in a ugly "soviet" style building with 7 other families, three
rooms, 2 baths, 1 car garage... "just" $ 211k with today change.
An home like that in the link, here, would cost more than $1 million. And
this is a small town.
I'll spend next 20 years paying for my home. With a wage probably one third
of a typical experienced EE in USA.
But... overall... I like living here.
I still can afford some cinemas, my new car, buying all the books I have
time to read, a 42'' LCD tv, good appliances, ADSL, pay tv...
And can also enjoy 4 weeks of holidays a year. I work in a well-behaved big
company (1500 people) without excessive fear of being laid off in the next 5
years..
I love my work; we have good R&D budgets, good tools, low bureaucracy. 40
hours / week, but being ready (and willing!) to reasonably work more
(unpaid) if timeline shortens.
And I can count on being cured if sick with no expenses...
Two friends of mine just came out from PhD at MIT now. They earn huge money
for my standard, now, but they also spend huge quantity of money also just
for living.
I still have to understand which lives "better", overall. Comparison is
really difficult, so many variables....
Article: 95059Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> writes: > Sheeeesh! If you count the breaks it's even less than 30 hours. > > When I was doing the big motor control project at Bosch in Bühlertal, > Germany, I'd barely get in the door and they'd break for "breakfast". I would think you should have gone with the flow. If you were staying at a hotel, you couldn't get a decent breakfast, so the zweite fruhstuck was needed to get you to lunchtime. > I finally shamed them into working American hours by walking into the > lab and picking up a soldering iron and doing the tech work myself ;-)Article: 95060
Has anybody had any showstopping problems when interconnecting Stratix-II and Virtex4 (EP2S180 & LX200) ? We just want to have a mass differential interconnect for a source-synchronous interface on 'left-over' pins for future expansion. Have never used Altera before but I realize the banking is quite different. Also, any experiences good or bad with 10GB Ethernet MAC cores from both Xilinx and Altera ? Thanks, -MartinArticle: 95061
"Mike" <mike@nospam.com> wrote in message news:Cu8Af.706$MJ.401@fed1read07... > "SioL" <Sio_spam_L@same.net> wrote in message > news:OI7Af.165$76.101141@news.siol.net... > > "Lanarcam" <lanarcam1@yahoo.fr> wrote in message > > news:1137771805.545861.31220@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > >> > >> Bryan Hackney wrote: > >>> And, um, what has Africa ever contributed to the world? > >> > >> No idea? > > > > Homo Sapiens? > > > > Supposedly the first man or woman came from there. > > My first thought too. > > Thank God they didn't patent. Can you imagine how much the royalty payments > would be? > > (And if we didn't pay, they'd terminate our license to produce!) THe method is obvious to anyone skilled in the field.Article: 95062
On 20 Jan 2006 08:46:19 -0800, amyler@eircom.net wrote: >Xenophobia eh, don't you just love it on a friday afternoon.... > Oh, I like the Brits and the Irish. The Russians, too, for that matter. But they just don't seem to be, on average, as compulsive as we are. JohnArticle: 95063
In article <o9aAf.9924$jR.1535@fed1read01>, rphenry@home.com says... > > "Mike" <mike@nospam.com> wrote in message > news:Cu8Af.706$MJ.401@fed1read07... > > "SioL" <Sio_spam_L@same.net> wrote in message > > news:OI7Af.165$76.101141@news.siol.net... > > > "Lanarcam" <lanarcam1@yahoo.fr> wrote in message > > > news:1137771805.545861.31220@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > >> > > >> Bryan Hackney wrote: > > >>> And, um, what has Africa ever contributed to the world? > > >> > > >> No idea? > > > > > > Homo Sapiens? > > > > > > Supposedly the first man or woman came from there. > > > > My first thought too. > > > > Thank God they didn't patent. Can you imagine how much the royalty > payments > > would be? > > > > (And if we didn't pay, they'd terminate our license to produce!) > > THe method is obvious to anyone skilled in the field. > <putting on his Perry Mason hat> Is that why there are a million parenting books? ...and ten million sex books? ;-) -- KeithArticle: 95064
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:13:22 -0500, Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote: >>Any country that admits as many immigrants as we do, will have a high >>illiteracy rate. Besides, some countries just lie about it. Do you >>really think Cuba's literacy rate is 99%? >> >>John > >Ten times the illiteracy of Iceland? It's possible, although the CIA >only admits to similar literacy levels to the US (97%), which is far >worse than what they say about France and Germany (99%). They also say >99.8% for Poland and 99% for the UK. Cuba has sunk a lot of resources >into literacy since the sixties, and have exported their training >methods to greatly improve literacy in some of the poorer Mexican >states. > > I don't think a 99% literacy rate is neurologically possible, much less 99.9. JohnArticle: 95065
Bryan Hackney wrote: > > bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote: > > Bryan Hackney wrote: > > > >>Simon Peacock wrote: > >> > >>>sooner or later the system will reach balance.. we will all earn less... and > >>>therefore eat less Big Macs.. so weigh less... then we will all get paid > >>>less too and spend less ... > >>> > >> > >>There will be no balance. > >> > >>Europe is declining. > > > > > > Why do you think that? > > > > You're joking, right? You can start with an unsustainable social > support model, declining productivity (30 hour week), declining > native population, increasing illiterate immigrant population. > > > > >>Africa and the Middle East will never go anywhere. > > > > > > Why do you think that? > > > > And, um, what has Africa ever contributed to the world? What > has the Middle East contributed lately (excluding oil)? > > [...] > > > > > I'd call you pompous twit. We had a renaissance in the west some six > > hundred years ago. It's still running - rather bumpily, and better in > > some areas than others - but we still keep on doing better in one area > > after another. > > > > Whatever keeps you going. Don't worry about Bill. He's the "Energizer Bunny" when it comes to spreading European bullshit. -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central FloridaArticle: 95066
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:31:44 -0700, the renowned Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >On 20 Jan 2006 08:24:15 -0800, amyler@eircom.net wrote: > >>can we all drop this topic please? >> >>this newsgroup is supposed to be about fpga's, not personal opinions on >>the pros and cons of working long hours versus having a work/life >>balance. >> >>Alan > >You haven't been paying attention. > >Here on S.E.D we rarely actually have a circuit problem posted by the >young'uns. > >So we old farts spend all our time debating politics. > >Ask a circuit question and I'll be happy to help. > >(But no pansy flashing LED's please ;-) > > ...Jim Thompson http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/ledpink.htm Shame about the < 10 hour life. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.comArticle: 95067
Antonio Pasini wrote: > > http://www.newhomes.com/homedetail.jsp?regionid=1374&homeid=31352&siteid=1 > > > > Compare that to a $250,000 home in east Palo Alto or Oakland. > > Is that a joke ? I saw the home ad... I could never afford something > remotely similar, here. It's not a joke, In the US all that is required is get off either coast. The guy who started this thread I assume is in Huston, similar "relatively low" prices there too. What I sometimes think is a joke are the young engineers struggling with a family trying to pay for a $500,000-600,000 home in Calif. Some I used to work with literally bussed an hour and half each way morning and night to cut the home costs. Another group bought a four place plane, and flew 45min, with the office right next to the airport. Some of the most interesting engineering businesses I've met in the US are in little farming towns across the midwest ... 15-20 people making a killer wage competing with low dollar bids against the big city coastal folks. I know of a two story 30,000 square foot doubly reinforced (for atomic blasts) concrete building (with fall out shelter) and 250KW 480V/3PH gensets, well, cistern, etc out in the middle of a no where that sold for about $80,000 not long a go. I'm told that there are a hundred of these across the midwest -- former AT&T microwave relay facilities from the 50's. The farms around them can frequently be had for nearly nothing to, a half section or so ... build 40-200 large homes, and move your company. Many locations are like this within an hour or two drive of a major international airport. Seems crazy to me to give the bankers the proceeds of our hard technology work .... in effect their slaves. > I still have to understand which lives "better", overall. Comparison is > really difficult, so many variables... yep ... and personal choice, or lack there of.Article: 95068
Ancient_Hacker wrote: > > (1970) All those IC's are going to impoverish all those miniskirted > young ladies stuffing resistors into TV PC boards! A neighbor of mine was telling me yesterday that she used to work for GE, building radios, till they closed the plant and moved it to Europe. I showed her a modern PC board and she couldn't believe the difference from the boards she used to stuff. -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central FloridaArticle: 95069
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:49:55 -0800, the renowned John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:13:22 -0500, Spehro Pefhany ><speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote: > > >>>Any country that admits as many immigrants as we do, will have a high >>>illiteracy rate. Besides, some countries just lie about it. Do you >>>really think Cuba's literacy rate is 99%? >>> >>>John >> >>Ten times the illiteracy of Iceland? It's possible, although the CIA >>only admits to similar literacy levels to the US (97%), which is far >>worse than what they say about France and Germany (99%). They also say >>99.8% for Poland and 99% for the UK. Cuba has sunk a lot of resources >>into literacy since the sixties, and have exported their training >>methods to greatly improve literacy in some of the poorer Mexican >>states. >> >> > >I don't think a 99% literacy rate is neurologically possible, much >less 99.9. > >John Yes, you must ask "99% of what?". I presume they don't count people who are physically incapable of becoming literate or who have become illiterate due to stroke or whatever. Surely the CIA can't be wrong? Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.comArticle: 95070
Has anyone got a chance to play with these devices? If so, any first impressions? -EliArticle: 95071
Has anyone got a chance to play with these devices? If so, any first impressions? -EliArticle: 95072
"Eli Hughes" <emh203@psu.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:dqrdp2$1ndq$1@f04n12.cac.psu.edu... > Has anyone got a chance to play with these devices? If so, any first > impressions? > > -Eli bad luck! I just today talked to the distributor well I have pending order for some time for the Fusion starterkit, what I did undrstand at the time of ordering was available, guess what ? now there is no schedule known! so it may take 3 or more months before we get the fusion starterkit, - as far as I got it, the situation with sample silicon is the same, eg NOTHING I have some PS3 devices and FlashPro Lite programmer, what to my surprise does not support PA3 :( and actel is promising to release software support for 3rd party support of PA3 maybe in march. anway i was able to generate a STAPL file with Libero 7 for PA3 and i managed to recompile and fix the actel STAPL to not fail on the PA3 stapl file. programming verify succeeded, but the PA3 doesnt seem to drive any outputs do not know why. the fusion starterkit should include the FlashPro3 programmer so I dont want to buy it separatly. but with Fusion it looks like we all need to wait some more AnttiArticle: 95073
"Eli Hughes" <emh203@psu.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:dqre3u$1nds$1@f04n12.cac.psu.edu... > Has anyone got a chance to play with these devices? If so, any first > impressions? > > -Eli not availabe for some more months, see my other reply to you :( AnttiArticle: 95074
Bryan Hackney wrote: > bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote: > >>Bryan Hackney wrote: >> >> >>>Simon Peacock wrote: >>> >>> >>>>sooner or later the system will reach balance.. we will all earn less... and >>>>therefore eat less Big Macs.. so weigh less... then we will all get paid >>>>less too and spend less ... >>>> >>> >>>There will be no balance. >>> >>>Europe is declining. >> >> >>Why do you think that? >> > > > You're joking, right? You can start with an unsustainable social > support model, declining productivity (30 hour week), declining > native population, increasing illiterate immigrant population. Strange. I always thought that Europe is declining because we are trying to follow the foolish american social model.
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