• Looks like there is a pretrigger now, so we should be able to capture the pulse exactly if we go triggered mode
• The _Mb includes are the Malibu library (ahhh)

1. Downloaded CentOS 8 DVD
2. Wrote to a USB stick with

   time sudo if=IMAGE of=/dev/sdX

3. Waited about 30 minutes
4. Booted the stick and installed with a custom layout using ext4 partitions on Dev2 64GB CFAST — David Lloyd Rabine 2020/01/28 21:36

Copying from the centos install, installed the packages

sudo yum -y install epel-release
sudo yum repolist
sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
sudo yum install -y ftp
sudo yum install -y wget
sudo yum install -y htop  # epel
sudo yum install -y http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-1.el7.nux.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install -y exfat-utils fuse-exfat
sudo yum install -y cmake
sudo yum install -y ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/jed-0.99.18-5.el5.kb.i386.rpm
sudo yum install -y pigz
sudo yum install -y screen # epel
sudo yum install -y telnet
sudo yum install -y openssl-devel
sudo yum install -y ncurses-devel
sudo yum install -y md5deep # ?
sudo yum install -y libtiff-devel
sudo yum install -y libX11-devel

Use a PC to grab the latest code from their website. I used the FPGA Dell Laptop Dan purchased (the nice one)

1. Go to the website: https://www.innovative-dsp.com/support-content/InstallFromWeb.exe
2. Download the linux and windows versions of the code (the firmware file only came down with windows)
   1. Check Malibu (linux you only get this option)
   2. Check Malibu Something Else (windows)
   3. Check x3 sdf
3. Transfer all the files, I put them all here

   /home/lvis/download/Innovative_x3sdf/download_linux

4. Make a directory for the install and copy the raw files into it

   sudo mkdir /usr/Innovative
   sudo cp -a /home/lvis/download/Innovative_x3sdf/download_linux/* /usr/Innovative/

5. Try doing this not as root

   sudo chown -R lvis:lvis /usr/Innovative
   # NOPE, had to do sudo as it needs to make and install a kernel module

6. Install some required libs

   sudo yum install -y elfutils-libelf-devel
   sudo yum install -y libpng-devel

7. Run their install script

   cd /usr/Innovative
   sudo ./Setup.sh

8. Install the X3 SDF Specific files

   sudo mkdir /usr/Innovative/64X3-SDF
   sudo tar -zxvf /usr/Innovative/64X3-SDF*.gz --directory=/usr/Innovative/64X3-SDF
   cd /usr/Innovative
   sudo ln -s 64X3-SDF X3-SDF

9. Install the firmware from the windows side, for some reason the linux side contains nothing

   cd /usr/Innovative/
   sudo unzip  ~/Downloads/Innovative_x3sdf/download_windows/X3-SDF_Firmware.zip

   1. Firmware file is here (or in my VM I put Hardware in top level, so /usr/Innovative/Hardware

      /usr/Innovative/X3-SDF_Firmware/Hardware/Images/x3_sdf_b_r9.bit
      # md5sum is 
      $ md5deep -z /usr/Innovative/X3-SDF_Firmware/Hardware/Images/x3_sdf_b_r9.bit
          403044  668c173770eb7ded391158b180264f73  /usr/Innovative/X3-SDF_Firmware/Hardware/Images/x3_sdf_b_r9.bit

10. Run Snap example as root

    # First, got to load the driver (we can automate this)
    sudo insmod /usr/Innovative/Driver/ii_dev_ctrl.ko
    cd /usr/Innovative/X3-SDF/Examples/Snap/Qt/Release
    sudo ./Snap

1. Setting 4 channels at 1MHz the board is streaming 16 MB/s for a 4 second capture.
2. 1 channel at 1 second is 1 MB/s
3. So it looks like this is working… just isn't writing to a file!?

1. Looks like

sudo yum install qt-devel

1. OK, this worked with just the qt as is

   cd /usr/Innovative/X3-SDF/Examples/Snap/Console
   # Generates the Makefile
   /usr/lib64/qt4/bin/qmake -spec linux-g++ -o Makefile Snap.pro
   # Compile
   make
   # Run
   sudo ./Release/Snap

Using the QT version, I created a capture INI file, and then just copied this over to the Snap console directory and it looks like this loads and runs. Here is the configuration file, that does 4 seconds for 3 channels at 1MHz sampling

• You have to run as sudo / root
• You need to delete the data.bdd and data.bin files it doesn't overwrite

AutoStop=1
AutoTrigger=1
BusmasterSize=0
Debug Script
DioConfig=0
ExoFile=/usr/Innovative/X3-SDF_Firmware/Hardware/Images/x3_sdf_b_r9.bit
ExternalTrigger=0
Framed=0
FrameSize=16384
FrontPanelConfig=3
FrontPanelTrigger=0
Help=0
LoggerEnable=1
OverwriteBdd=1
PacketSize=65536
PhaseDetectorFrequency=100000
PlotEnable=1
PretriggerCount=0
PretriggerEnable=0
ReferenceFrequency=0.5
ReferenceSource=0
RTPlotEnable=1
RTPlotFrequency=1
RTPlotSamples=16384
SampleClockSource=2
SampleRate=1000
SamplesToLog=4000000
Startup Script=..\..\Startup.fr
SyncMaster=1
Target=0
TestCounterEnable=0
TriggerDelay=0

[ActiveChannels]
ArraySize=4
Ch0=1
Ch1=1
Ch2=1
Ch3=0

[AlertEnable]
Alert0=1
Alert1=0
Alert2=0
Alert3=0
Alert4=0
Alert5=0
Alert6=0
Alert7=0
Alert8=0
ArraySize=9

[Range]
ArraySize=4
Idx_0=0
Idx_1=0
Idx_2=0
Idx_3=0

JP1connector is the front panel connector for the analog inputs, external clock and external trigger inputs.

MDR68 male to-male, 36 inches (0.91meters)

This is the MDR68 as viewed from the front panel.

My question to Innovative Tech Support 2020.02.01

In Common/ApplicationIo.cpp
  HandleDirectDataAvailable()
    Would that be the place to check the time and if greater than our 60 seconds
	  - Close the current file
	  - Set the new file name
	  - Open the new file name
	  
	  and then let it continue?
	  
	  seems like the right place to do that?