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Revision as of 17:05, 23 September 2008

Critical Notes

Quartus II 8.0 and 8.0 + sp1 generate .pof files that seem to program the configuration device, but do not work after a power-cycle. When generating .pof files, do not use these versions of Quartus II. For more information, refer to the Quartus 8.0 .pof Generation Bug page.

Use Quartus II 7.2, or 6.1, or older to generate .pof files.

Always cleanly reset the MCE after a power-up or a reconfiguration! If you do not, MCE communication with the PC or Sync Box may not work.

> mce_reset_clean

Note that after a reset, not all of the DAC outputs are reset to zero. In addition, values written to RAM-based registers are not reset. To reset these registers, a full reconfiguration is required.

> rs psc cycle_pow 1
> mce_reset_clean

MCE Firmware Releases

You can download all the MCE firmware configuration files here. When copying files to this folder, make sure that that they are readable:

> ssh phas.ubc.ca
> cd ~mce/public_html/mcedocs/firmware
> chmod o+r rc_*.pof

Information on the firmware for each card can be found through the links below:

MCE Features and How-To Guides

MCE Firmware Bugs/ Features Under Development

Hardware Peripherals

Software Tools

All that you need to know about logging into our CVS repository can be found here:

We decided (sadly) NOT to migrate from CVS to SVN, if we ever do here is some information:

MCE Scripting