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Trying to reactivate my Papilio Duo, where's the current documentation?
stm replied to stm's topic in Papilio DUO
Ok, I found an old version of the "Learn" content in the Wayback Archive, maybe it helps others as well: https://web.archive.org/web/20170530173520/http://gadgetfactory.net/learn/ From there I found a video that helped me to reinstall the USB drivers in Windows 10: And now I am able to use the Papilio Duo as a logic analyzer again. -
Trying to reactivate my Papilio Duo, where's the current documentation?
stm posted a topic in Papilio DUO
Hi, my Papilio Duo has been put to rest for some years now, but now I want to reactivate it as a logic analyzer. But I forgot almost everything about how to use the Papilio Duo, and I can't find the current documentation. When I click on the "Learn" link at the top of the page, I only see an empty directory displayed by Apache. I've installed DesignLab 1.0.8 on Windows 10, and I can start the logic analyzer GUI from DesignLab, but the Papilio Duo does not show up as a serial port on the system. Where can I find the steps to get the Papilio Duo running again with my Windows 10 system? Thanks Stephan -
Wishbone version of the Sump Blaze Logic Analyzer
stm replied to Jack Gassett's topic in DesignLab Libraries
Hi Alvie and Jack, this looks very interesting! Jack, I believe you mentioned before that this project would contain a DMA module. Is this already implemented? If so, could you point out where it is so I can take a look at it? Thanks Stephan -
Magnus and Vlait, thanks for the suggestions. My idea was also that it would be the easiest way to use a zpuino-based solution, with a FAT file system on the SD card. I will a look at the Pipistrello solution.
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Yes, this requires clock domain crossing. The 6502 runs at 1 MHz.
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I don't have any design yet, except my own previous tries to implement the DMA Wishbone peripheral where only the read cycle works (see earlier posts in this thread). The 6502 has a clock frequency of 1 MHz, so an upper bound is 1 million bytes per second, but in practice will be probably less than 500000 bytes per second as the 6502 cannot read/write on every clock cycle.
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Hello Alvie, my project is a RAM expansion and floppy emulator for a 6502 board, and this means read/write random access at byte level. Do you mean a cache in connection with your burst controller? Stephan
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Thank you, Jack! Please let me know when something is available. In the meantime I will try to make progress with Alvie's proposal. Stephan
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Thanks Alvie, I will take a look. I only need read and write for a single byte at a time, but probably this can be tailored to my needs. Stephan
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Hello Jack, I'm currently trying to revive my Papilio Duo project that I abandoned earlier this year. I still have no luck with my own DMA implementation, I can't make it work.Therefore I wanted to ask whether you actually did implement a Wishbone peripheral for SDRAM access, as you outlined in your post. Did anything happen in this area, or are you still planning to do this? Stephan
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Nevermind, it was in fact my own fault because I had switched on "Use external editor" in the preferences...
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I tried with different projects now, and DesignLab 1.0.7 does not let me edit any C source of any of my projects.
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Hi Jack, thanks, the messages about the duplicate references are gone after uninstalling the old instance of DesignLab. But maybe I didn't make my other problem clear: Xilinx ISE was and is installed, and it opens fine from within DesignLab 1.7. What does not work is editing the C code of the sketch itself in the DesignLab Arduino IDE (see attached screen shot). The editor window is readonly, and it doesn't allow me to edit the code. Stephan
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Hi, after a long pause I'm coming back to hack on my Papilio Duo, and of course I updated to the current DesignLab 1.0.7. Now I feel like a complete newbie :-) After clicking "New ZPUino SOC project" I get a new editor, but "Save as..." is disabled, and I cannot edit the sketch. When I click "Edit circuit", it tells me that there are readonly files, and then can I save the project to a new location. But after that it is still not possible to edit the sketch, What am I doing wrong. And also a general question: What is the correct way to upgrade from one DesignLab version to the next one? If I open an existing project and do "Edit Circuit", I get lots of messages about duplicate references, because there are still references to the old DesignLab directory. -- Stephan
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That sounds easy, therefore good :-) For the memory expansion aspect of my project this will be fine. You might recall that exposing a part of the Papilio RAM as a memory expansion for a 6502-based computer is the first step of my project. The second step will be to use the Papilio DUO also as a floppy disk emulator with storage on an SD card. This will also need a buffer in RAM. I guess that I will then have to manage a larger chunk of memory and use part of the memory as memory expansion and another part as disk buffer. Stephan