Difference: AMC13AddressTable (8 vs. 9)

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Address Table Format

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The CSV file has the following columns:

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Description	Required	Text description. Must be quoted with "..."
Mode	Optional	access mode ("incremental" for block-transfer capable areas)
Size	Optional	required size for block-transfer capable areas

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P_Status	Optional[1]	`Status` uHAL parameter. Integer display priority 1=always display
P_Show	Optional[2]	`Show` uHAL parameter. "nz" to suppress zero values, "z" to suppress non-zero values (see note below)
P_Table	Optional[1]	`Table` uHAL parameter. Name of table for status display
P_Row	Optional[1]	`Row` uHAL parameter. Name of row in table for status display
P_Column	Optional[1]	`Column` uHAL parameter. Name of column in table for status display
P_Format	Optional[2]	`Format` uHAL parameter. "d" to force decimal base for display (default is specified by user)
P_Repeat (new)	Optional[3]	`Repeat` uHAL parameter. Number of times this item is repeated
P_Offset (new)	Optional[3]	`Offset` uHAL parameter. Offset between repeats. Default to 1 if not specified

All columns beginning with "P_" are concatenated into the XML attribute "parameters" which is processed as a semicolon-delimited keyword=value list by uHAL. No special characters are permitted in these columns (only letters, numbers and "_").

For an item to appear in the status displays, the P_Status, P_Table, P_Row and P_Column must be specified. P_Table, P_Row and P_Column are sorted alphabetically. Leading digits and "_" characters should be stripped before display so that e.g. "0_" can be used to force a sort order.

The P_Status item sets the display priority. 0 is used to mark configuration registers which may be optionally displayed or not according to user preference. Positive integers 1-9 indicate various levels of detail for status values, with value 1 indicating the highest priority items which should always be displayed.

In the P_Row and P_Column fields, the sequence _n where n is a digit 1-9 results in substituting the corresponding field from the delimited id, e.g. if a field is _2 and the id is STATUS.AMC01.ERRORS then the resulting value would be AMC01.

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P_Status	Optional[1]	Status uHAL parameter. Integer display priority 1=always display
P_Show	Optional[2]	Show uHAL parameter. "nz" to suppress zero values, "z" to suppress non-zero values (see note below)
P_Table	Optional[1]	Table uHAL parameter. Name of table for status display
P_Row	Optional[1]	Row uHAL parameter. Name of row in table for status display
P_Column	Optional[1]	Column uHAL parameter. Name of column in table for status display
P_Format	Optional[2]	Format uHAL parameter. "d" to force decimal base for display (default is specified by user)
P_Repeat (new)	Optional[3]	Repeat uHAL parameter. Number of times this item is repeated
P_Offset (new)	Optional[3]	Offset uHAL parameter. Offset between repeats. Default to 1 if not specified

The P_Show parameter has several possible settings:

nz	Display this value only if non-zero
z	Display this value only if zero
nzr	Display the entire row in the corresponding table only if this value is non-zero

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There are many 64-bit counters, which have otherwise identical ids ending in _LO and _HI. These should be treated as a single 64-bit value for purposes of display, if their Table, Row and Column parameters are identical.

The csv file is converted to XML by a perl script in the above directory named csv_to_xml.pl.

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Updating the Address Table

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$ source env.sh # or possibly .csh $ make # possibly needed twice first time

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2. Identify the file which needs to be changed. There are several "source" CSV-format files. To identify the version number currently in use see the Makefile. The following files are used:

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AMC13XG_T1_version.csv general Kintex/Virtex registers AMCCounters.csv counters for each AMC AMCLinks.csv link status for each AMC

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3. Edit the file using OpenOffice/LibreOffice spreadsheet (or in an emergency carefully use a text editor):

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In the "Text Import" dialog box be certain to check "Comma" in Separated by and "Quoted field as text".

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Edit the file, observing carefully the parameter use as documented at the top of this page.

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perl csv_expand_repeat.pl AMCLinks.csv temp.csv perl csv_to_xml.pl temp.csv ../../../amc13/etc/amc13/AMCLinks.xml Loaded 32 rows, 12 columns from temp.csv

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This creates the files AMC13XG _T1.xml and AMC13XG _T2.xml in ...amc13/etc/amc13/. Some extra step(s) may be needed to correctly deploy these files in a production system.

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Missing Permission Fix

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> When attempting to start AMC13 Tool, an error may arise where a permission is incorrectly set for a given register; either missing or set to read only. This can be fixed by following the above steps to edit the register in question (this may need to be done multiple times if more than one permission is missing. Only the first "bad" register will show up on each attempt to start the software).

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> If you do not know the correct level of permission for the register, examine the permission around it. It is likely that the correct setting will be the one that matches those above and below it. If you are still unsure, contact an expert before changing anything.

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> -- Christopher Cosby - 09 Jul 2020

-- EricHazen - 28 May 2015 \ No newline at end of file

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