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Re: Progress
by Burns Fisher (AMSAT) 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

Bob, why don't you not both doing the HalCoGen changes and let me get the software. I'm so familiar with how I did HalCoGen and everything else that I can probably do it faster. 73, Burns Fisher, WB1FJ *AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software* On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 9:34 AM Bob Stricklin via pacsat-dev < pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> wrote: > Working hard on the boards. Spent the weekend swamping out and adding > parts to the 3 untouched boards. A few more parts need to be added. > > Have the power supply sections working. The chip for the 1.2 volt supply > is the most difficult to work with. > > Goal is to ship these out to people soon. I wanted to get one out to Burns > yesterday but taking longer to get them ready. > > Today is tied up with travel and doctors visits. > > I realize looking through the code that the bits on the IO lines are being > changed individually. This means that getting HCG correct was just a piece > of what we needed. Getting all the bits correct will take some time. > > Bob > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > pacsat-dev mailing list -- pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org > View archives of this mailing list at > https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to pacsat-dev-leave(a)amsat.org > Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at > https://mailman.amsat.org >

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Progress
by Bob Stricklin 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

Working hard on the boards. Spent the weekend swamping out and adding parts to the 3 untouched boards. A few more parts need to be added. Have the power supply sections working. The chip for the 1.2 volt supply is the most difficult to work with. Goal is to ship these out to people soon. I wanted to get one out to Burns yesterday but taking longer to get them ready. Today is tied up with travel and doctors visits. I realize looking through the code that the bits on the IO lines are being changed individually. This means that getting HCG correct was just a piece of what we needed. Getting all the bits correct will take some time. Bob

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Software problems on blinky
by Burns Fisher (AMSAT) 19 Jan '24

19 Jan '24

Hi Bob, I was not able to go to the meeting last night, but I hear you are still having problems with the software. I just spent several hours debugging/staring at/thinking about a subtle problem causing an OS crash on my own Golf software, so I guess my thought is that I'm not too likely to be able to suggest a quick fix for you without a lot of hands-on. That said, if you want to send me a copy of the board, (and I understand that it may have flaws), I'm more than willing to look into the s/w problem. I'm sometimes pretty good at finding simple hw problems too. Let me know what you think. 73, Burns Fisher, WB1FJ *AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software*

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by Bill 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

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Re: Not here tomorrow
by Corey Minyard 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 02:57:43AM +0000, Burns Fisher (AMSAT) via pacsat-dev wrote: > Snow on Tuesday moved my band rehearsal from Tuesday to Thurs, so I won't > be there for another week. Today is my monthly day where I can't make it, either. -corey > > 73, > > Burns Fisher, WB1FJ > *AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software* > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > pacsat-dev mailing list -- pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org > View archives of this mailing list at https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to pacsat-dev-leave(a)amsat.org > Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at https://mailman.amsat.org

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Not here tomorrow
by Burns Fisher (AMSAT) 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

Snow on Tuesday moved my band rehearsal from Tuesday to Thurs, so I won't be there for another week. 73, Burns Fisher, WB1FJ *AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software*

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Re: Moving my project to Github
by Burns Fisher (AMSAT) 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

Does Bob need one of those very long random passwords that github generates, or else a public key to actuallly push code there now? Is that the problem possibly? I know I did the long pw sometime but it must have been saved. 73, Burns Fisher, WB1FJ *AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software* On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 9:16 AM Chris Thompson via pacsat-dev < pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> wrote: > I suggest applying the code changes to a branch rather than pushing a new > repo. Create a branch in the original repo, check out the branch then copy > all the new repo code over it. Including the halogen changes. Then commit > and push the branch. > > 73 > Chris > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024, 17:46 Burns Fisher (AMSAT) via pacsat-dev < > pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> wrote: > >> Any ideas, Chris? You are more of a git expert than I. >> >> Have you seen the memory issue either? >> >> 73, >> >> Burns Fisher, WB1FJ >> *AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software* >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 5:41 PM Bob Stricklin via pacsat-dev < >> pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> wrote: >> >>> I used the Git tool in CCS to clone the PacSatSWV2 repository locally. >>> Then I copied all the files into the cloned area and now trying to push it >>> back up. >>> >>> >>> >>> Bob >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* Burns Fisher (AMSAT) via pacsat-dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 16, 2024 4:36 PM >>> *To:* Bob Stricklin <bstrick(a)n5brg.com> >>> *Cc:* Pacsat Dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> >>> *Subject:* [pacsat-dev] Re: Moving my project to Github >>> >>> >>> >>> How did you get it in the first place? If you pulled it down from >>> github then it should just push right back up there? It's been a long time >>> since I tried to set it up new. I'll try to get some time to look tomorrow >>> if just pushing it does not work. >>> >>> >>> >>> OH, that is why Bill wanted a new repository. It would have been so >>> much easier just to pull Jim's version down and make a branch for yours on >>> the same repository. >>> >>> >>> 73, >>> >>> >>> >>> Burns Fisher, WB1FJ >>> >>> *AMSAT**(R) **Engineering -- Flight Software* >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM Bob Stricklin via pacsat-dev < >>> pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> wrote: >>> >>> Do any of you know the proper steps for me to get this initial code into >>> Github? Here is a image of what I have done. I thought it was going to post >>> but a cannot get the commit button at bottom to take action. >>> >>> >>> >>> Bob >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> pacsat-dev mailing list -- pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org >>> View archives of this mailing list at >>> https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to pacsat-dev-leave(a)amsat.org >>> Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at >>> https://mailman.amsat.org >>> >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> pacsat-dev mailing list -- pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org >>> View archives of this mailing list at >>> https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to pacsat-dev-leave(a)amsat.org >>> Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at >>> https://mailman.amsat.org >>> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> pacsat-dev mailing list -- pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org >> View archives of this mailing list at >> https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to pacsat-dev-leave(a)amsat.org >> Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at >> https://mailman.amsat.org >> > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > pacsat-dev mailing list -- pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org > View archives of this mailing list at > https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to pacsat-dev-leave(a)amsat.org > Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at > https://mailman.amsat.org >

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Re: Moving my project to Github
by Chris Thompson 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

I suggest applying the code changes to a branch rather than pushing a new repo. Create a branch in the original repo, check out the branch then copy all the new repo code over it. Including the halogen changes. Then commit and push the branch. 73 Chris On Tue, Jan 16, 2024, 17:46 Burns Fisher (AMSAT) via pacsat-dev < pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> wrote: > Any ideas, Chris? You are more of a git expert than I. > > Have you seen the memory issue either? > > 73, > > Burns Fisher, WB1FJ > *AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software* > > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 5:41 PM Bob Stricklin via pacsat-dev < > pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> wrote: > >> I used the Git tool in CCS to clone the PacSatSWV2 repository locally. >> Then I copied all the files into the cloned area and now trying to push it >> back up. >> >> >> >> Bob >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* Burns Fisher (AMSAT) via pacsat-dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 16, 2024 4:36 PM >> *To:* Bob Stricklin <bstrick(a)n5brg.com> >> *Cc:* Pacsat Dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> >> *Subject:* [pacsat-dev] Re: Moving my project to Github >> >> >> >> How did you get it in the first place? If you pulled it down from github >> then it should just push right back up there? It's been a long time since >> I tried to set it up new. I'll try to get some time to look tomorrow if >> just pushing it does not work. >> >> >> >> OH, that is why Bill wanted a new repository. It would have been so much >> easier just to pull Jim's version down and make a branch for yours on the >> same repository. >> >> >> 73, >> >> >> >> Burns Fisher, WB1FJ >> >> *AMSAT**(R) **Engineering -- Flight Software* >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM Bob Stricklin via pacsat-dev < >> pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> wrote: >> >> Do any of you know the proper steps for me to get this initial code into >> Github? Here is a image of what I have done. I thought it was going to post >> but a cannot get the commit button at bottom to take action. >> >> >> >> Bob >> >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> pacsat-dev mailing list -- pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org >> View archives of this mailing list at >> https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to pacsat-dev-leave(a)amsat.org >> Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at >> https://mailman.amsat.org >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> pacsat-dev mailing list -- pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org >> View archives of this mailing list at >> https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to pacsat-dev-leave(a)amsat.org >> Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at >> https://mailman.amsat.org >> > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > pacsat-dev mailing list -- pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org > View archives of this mailing list at > https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to pacsat-dev-leave(a)amsat.org > Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at > https://mailman.amsat.org >

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Re: Moving my project to Github
by Bob Stricklin 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

The GIT issue may be a permissions problem. I had a problem like this when I started and Jonathan did something to fix things. When I try to push I get prompted for username and password which I enter. Then I am declined. Maybe compare permissions on PacSatDocs to this new repository. Bob On Jan 16, 2024, at 4:46 PM, Burns Fisher (AMSAT) via pacsat-dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> wrote: Any ideas, Chris? You are more of a git expert than I. Have you seen the memory issue either? 73, Burns Fisher, WB1FJ AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 5:41 PM Bob Stricklin via pacsat-dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I used the Git tool in CCS to clone the PacSatSWV2 repository locally. Then I copied all the files into the cloned area and now trying to push it back up. Bob From: Burns Fisher (AMSAT) via pacsat-dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 4:36 PM To: Bob Stricklin <bstrick(a)n5brg.com<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Pacsat Dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [pacsat-dev] Re: Moving my project to Github How did you get it in the first place? If you pulled it down from github then it should just push right back up there? It's been a long time since I tried to set it up new. I'll try to get some time to look tomorrow if just pushing it does not work. OH, that is why Bill wanted a new repository. It would have been so much easier just to pull Jim's version down and make a branch for yours on the same repository. 73, Burns Fisher, WB1FJ AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM Bob Stricklin via pacsat-dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Do any of you know the proper steps for me to get this initial code into Github? Here is a image of what I have done. I thought it was going to post but a cannot get the commit button at bottom to take action. Bob ----------------------------------------------------------- pacsat-dev mailing list -- pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org<mailto:[email protected]> View archives of this mailing list at https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to pacsat-dev-leave(a)amsat.org<mailto:[email protected]> Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at https://mailman.amsat.org ----------------------------------------------------------- pacsat-dev mailing list -- pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org<mailto:[email protected]> View archives of this mailing list at https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to pacsat-dev-leave(a)amsat.org<mailto:[email protected]> Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at https://mailman.amsat.org ----------------------------------------------------------- pacsat-dev mailing list -- pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org View archives of this mailing list at https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to pacsat-dev-leave(a)amsat.org Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at https://mailman.amsat.org

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Re: Memory Problem on PacSatSW
by Bob Stricklin 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

This seems to fix the short term issue… I changed FreeRTOSConfig.h like this: //#define configTOTAL_HEAP_SIZE ( ( size_t ) 32768 ) //Default //#define configTOTAL_HEAP_SIZE ( ( size_t ) (2*65536 )) /*BF Changed*/ #define configTOTAL_HEAP_SIZE ( ( size_t ) (65536 + 20000)) /*N5BRG Changed 240116*/ With the code this way we are using 85% of available space. This will be fine for me to continue testing chips. I will get back to test the board. Thanks for help. Bob From: Burns Fisher (AMSAT) via pacsat-dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 2:21 PM To: Bob Stricklin <bstrick(a)n5brg.com> Cc: Pacsat Dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org> Subject: [pacsat-dev] Re: Memory Problem on PacSatSW Thanks. I have a few comments (all numbers are hex) * (this is true of Golf too--I never noticed) the psect named STACKS is unused. That is wasting 1500 bytes of RAM. * The actual stacks are allocated out of the module named os_heap. That is using 20000 bytes. See if you have the command "heap free" . That will tell you how much you can reduce that heap size by (but of course you want to leave some!) You can change the size in FreeRTOSConfig.h. Change "configTOTAL_HEAP_SIZE" Right now it is double what I had it at (it is 128K, was 64K) * I don't see a problem with flash or RAM memory. It says you have 10c112 bytes unused in flash and 932b unused in RAM. If we need to find some available memory, we can probably do it, but I don't see a problem here right now. Your "out of memory" must be a runtime message? Exactly what does that error look like? Is it in the file system (i.e. MRAM)? That is a totally different story. You might try "get mram size" to see if it matches the amount you think you have. The MRAM code (if I remember correctly) fixes itself up based on the size and number of MRAM chips, so if one or more are not working it might just quietly compensate. 73, Burns Fisher, WB1FJ AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 2:30 PM Bob Stricklin via pacsat-dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Here is the map file you were looking for. Bob From: Burns Fisher (AMSAT) via pacsat-dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 12:04 PM To: Bob Stricklin <bstrick(a)n5brg.com<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Pacsat Dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [pacsat-dev] Re: Memory Problem on PacSatSW The MRAMmap that you sent has nothing to do with the linker complaining. MRAM is totally external and the linker knows nothing about it. I did not know about View/Memory that Jim pointed out. To me the most useful thing, and what I mean by the Link Map or Memory Map is under the Debug folder (or Release folder depending on which way you are building) and is called programname.map, for example PacSat.map. It shows how much each module is using in both code (flash memory) and RAM. Here is a section showing how much code (.text in Unix terms) is being used. SECTION ALLOCATION MAP output attributes/ section page origin length input sections -------- ---- ---------- ---------- ---------------- .intvecs 0 00000000 00000020 00000000 00000020 sys_intvecs.obj (.intvecs) .text 0 00000020 00048338 00000020 000046f4 Ax25Task.obj (.text) 00004714 00003d54 UplinkTask.obj (.text) 00008468 00003b14 PbTask.obj (.text) 0000bf7c 000033f0 ConsoleTask.obj (.text) 0000f36c 0000314c pacsat_header.obj (.text) 000124b8 00002b7c sys_selftest.obj (.text) 00015034 00002860 os_tasks.obj (.text) 00017894 000026b8 inodedata.obj (.text) 00019f4c 000020d0 nonvolManagement.obj (.text) 0001c01c 00002008 posix.obj (.text) ========================= And here is how much RAM is getting used. .bss 0 08001500 00024752 UNINITIALIZED 08001500 00020000 os_heap.obj (.bss:ucHeap) 08021500 00000acc Ax25Task.obj (.bss:data_link_state_machine) 08021fcc 00000a00 PbTask.obj (.bss:pb_list) 080229cc 0000067c buffer.obj (.bss:gBufCtx) 08023048 00000360 CommandTask.obj (.bss:UplinkCommandBuffer) 080233a8 00000320 posix.obj (.bss:gaHandle) 080236c8 00000200 UplinkTask.obj (.bss:ftl0_pfh_byte_buffer$2) 080238c8 00000200 pacsat_dir.obj (.bss:pfh_byte_buffer) 08023ac8 000001d4 UplinkTask.obj (.bss:ftl0_pfh_buffer$1) 08023c9c 000001d4 pacsat_dir.obj (.bss:pfh_buffer) 08023e70 00000128 (.common:gaRedCoreVol) 08023f98 00000120 rtsv7R4_T_be_v3D16_eabi.lib : trgmsg.c.obj (.bss:_CIOBUF_) 080240b8 00000118 UplinkTask.obj (.bss:ax25_event) 080241d0 00000118 Ax25Task.obj (.bss:ax25_received_event) 080242e8 00000118 Ax25Task.obj (.bss:lm_event) 08024400 00000118 Ax25Task.obj (.bss:send_event_buffer) 08024518 00000118 UplinkTask.obj (.bss:send_event_buffer) 08024630 00000118 Ax25Task.obj (.bss:timer_event) ========================= Notice that you can tell which is in flash and which is in memory by the address (080xxxxx is ram, 0004xxxx is flash). This is totally an output file. What you changed was the link command file sys_lnk.cmd which is input to the linker. You essentially "lied" to the linker so it would not complain, I think. Clever way to find out how much it really wanted! But if you can send the PacSat.map (or whatever it is called), that will tell exactly who is using the memory. 73, Burns Fisher, WB1FJ AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 12:30 PM Bob Stricklin via pacsat-dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Jim, Make sure you are looking at: View -> Memory Allocation And not Memory Browser Memory Allocation should open in a TAB in a window within CCS. My TAB is at the bottom of CCS along with a bunch more TABs. Bob From: Jim McCullers via pacsat-dev <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2024 6:31 PM To: 'Pacsat Dev' <pacsat-dev(a)amsat.org<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [pacsat-dev] Re: Memory Problem on PacSatSW My version of CSS is either different or how did you turn on the green lines with summary data? I get a popup status message with similar info but not as stable or detailed as yours. On my system, I’m showing 80% utilization. The majority is in ucHeap (about 131k). I’ll bet on a function somewhere allocating a chunk of memory or repeatedly doing so and never using or releasing it. Should be ‘fun’ to find. Jim McCullers WA4CWI Looks like we have an issue with memory usage in RAM If you load up CCS with the current project PacSatSW and build it then you can select VIEW -> Memory Allocation and look at the tab. You will see the package needs 154K or RAM and the Launpad has 191K. In the case of the TMS570LS0914 we have 128K max. You can expand RAM and the subfolders and see where the memory is being used. I worked for the last few days getting a HalCoGen setup for the LS0914 and then murging this HCG file with the code of the Launcpad project. After working through some issues it built but when it ran the linker it errored out with not enough memory. So faked it out and told the linker I had more memory. Then it would build and generate a .out file and the Memory Allocation info. It matches the launch pad build. Probably need to look for ways to reduce RAM needed. Reduce buffer sizes, move buffers to external memory, or take out code. I will be looking for things here to try and complete a basic build of the code for the LS0914. Please look for ideas and post any that you come up with. We probably should target RAM usage at about 80% of the max or about 100KB. We could change processors later but that would need some study. 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