General These are my notes as I set up the jitter attenuator devices (Silicon Labs’ Si5324 and Si5328) on Xilinx development boards as clean clock sources for use with MGTs. As such, this post isn’t all that organized. I suppose that the reason Xilinx put a jitter attenuator to drive the SFP+ related reference clock, [...]
… or why does my GTH/GTY not come out of reset? Why are those reset_rx_done / reset_tx_done never asserted after a reset_all or a reset involving the CPLLs? What’s this CPLL calibration thing about? It turns out that some GTH/GTY’s on Ultrascale and Ultrascale+ FPGAs have problems with getting the CPLL to work reliably. I’ll [...]
… or any other “unsupported” Linux distribution. … or: How to trick the installer into thinking you’re running one of the supported OSes. So I wanted to install Vivado 2020.1 on my Linux Mint 19 (Tara) machine. I downloaded the full package, and ran xsetup. A splash window appeared, and soon after it another window [...]
Just a quick note to remind myself: There’s a gap between the size of a disk, the used space and the available space. It’s quite well-known that a certain percentage of the disk (that’s 200 GB on a 3.6 TB backup disk) is saved for root-only writes. So the reminder is: No problem filling the [...]
When to do this Because Gnome desktop is sure it knows what’s best for me, and it’s virtually impossible to just tell it that I want this screen resolution mode and no other, there is only one option left: Lie about the monitor’s graphics mode capabilities. Make the kernel feed it with fake screen information [...]