ADS SI/PI vs Momentum

Published on 2017-11-15 in Hardware Design

ADS Momentum is a full-wave EM field solver that merged with ADS package for more than 10 years. Starting with the ADS 2016.1, two new tools introduced by Keysight, the SI and PI Pro environment that can be accessed through layout interface inside the ADS software. In this post, I’ll talk about features of these two new tools and the reasons behind why they become an essential tool in the first place.

ADS Momentum

Momentum is a 3D EM solver. Have both RF and microwave options available. RF Mode solve EM fields in a simplified environment by utilizing approximated formulas while Microwave Mode use the full-blown Maxwell equations to solve the fields. Aside from accurate results that Momentum provide, this tools is memory and cpu-time hungry. If you try to simulate a simple two layer 6cmx6cm PCB with this tool, the process may take a day with consuming up to 80GB of memory to be solve. This is not a unexpected situation, because solving a board inside Momentum, make this tool to mesh all via, traces and planes in a full 3D environment. Momentum then solve the EM in a 3D box and calculate cross talk between all traces across the board even if they are completely isolated from each other.

In these cases if you don’t access to a superior machine, you will have to cutting out your design and simplify it as far as you could. This process is tedious and may take you further from achieving accurate results. This problem originated from not simplifying the design in a smart way and ignore the fact that we are surly simulating a PCB with focus on coupling and signal integrity. Thus far-field calculation is absolutely trivial.

ADS SI/PI Pro

To solve the discussed issue, Keysight developed a new EM solver engine that consider PCB requirement in mind. SI/PI Pro accelerate the simulating process 10 times by exploiting the special conditions that applied to PCB designs and RF boards that simplify the design. Although this simplification will results in less accurate simulation, it is a complete automated process with zero overhead and the boost in the simulation time is much greater than manual simplification that you can do in the Momentum.

Fig 1. PNA6 pcb imported to ADS SI Pro

Comparisons

To evaluate the solvers, I imported PNA6 design into both Momentum and SI Pro environment. Then in momentum in order to cutback the cpu-time, I had to remove non-related layers, remove GND plane coppers and replace the layer with a slot plane, then optimize the Physical Model tab inside the EMPro options and finally remove superfluous traces from the layout. Carring out these preparation steps takes me almost 30 to 45 minutes which is quite long if you had to change the layout in Allegro and redo the whole process.

The simulation performed on 100MHz to 6GHz on a 4 layer RO4003 substrate. both Momentum RF and Momentum Microwave results in a same S-Parameter with slightly negligible differences in high frequency portion. The SI Pro results also compromises with Momentum although it shows some difficulty in achieving accurate S-Param the results are in complete compliance with momentum results and simulation process is so much faster than Momentum.

To conclude this discussion SI Pro shows a good fidelity toward achieving good results and as long as you can neglect 1 or 2dB errors the reults could be enough for you. Si Pro neither care for far field calculation nor can be used to simulate Antenna design but as far as your designs are limited to PCB or chip layout, SI Pro can serve as a nice companion toward reaching your goals in the product development process.

Useful Links

1. YouTube – Passive Circuit DesignGuide with a Momentum Simulation
2. YouTube – SIPro Introduction

Export Allegro 17.2 Board to ADS 2017.1

Published on 2017-09-23 in Hardware Design

Cadence and Keysight are collaborating with each other since 2000’s which brings one of unprecedented feature to reality, an ability to export your design from allegro to ADS seamlessly. In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to configure Allegro Design Flow Integration (ADFI) for Allgero 17.2 and ADS 2017 Update 1. I am aware that for ADSs prior to the 2016 version, there exists some compatibility issues with exporting from 17.2 version which is caused by some updates in Allegro SKILL engine, thus it is recommended to use the 2016 version or later.

Configuring Allegro

To configure ADFI in Allegro you have two options, one, If you had installed Allegro alongside ADS on the same machine then you are already good to go, but if you have each software on a separate workstation you need to install Python 2 before going any further. I’m using 2.7 version and it works with Allegro 17.2 flawlessly. Follow these steps to configure ADFI:

Open Allegro, from menu select File > Script
In the opened dialog click on Browse button, check the Change Directory checkbox and open
<ADS_FOLDER>\ial\scripts\eemLocalConfig.scr
Click Replay button to run the script
Select “Integrate with ADS” if you have ADS installed and “Standalone” if not. In case of “Standalone” browse to the path of python.
Click on setup and Restart the Allegro

If you did the steps correctly a item named Export To ADS/EMPro will show up in menu bar.

Generate ADFI File From The Board

To export you need to select the nets of interest prior to export. To do that

From Export To ADS/EMPro select Select Traces item.
Select the nets, layers and then go to Cookie Cutter tab. In this tab you will create a board cutout geometry.
The process is nearly straightforward. the cutout can be generated exactly around your selected signals in the Trace Select tab or be loosely wrap selected trace. This will be determined by the Initial shape slider. hull means exact shape and bounding box will be a loose surround.
Set the Expansion distance (I used 20 mils). This option expand the generated box with specified value.
Click Build for Signal Net to generate the cookie cutter.
Go to Component/Pin Select tab and select the components of interest. select pins you wish to add ports in Selected Pins section.
Select Ports tab and click on AutoPlace. Press OK button and exit the Select Geometry dialog.
From Export To ADS/EMPro select Export > Selected To ADS item.
Select a path and click Save button.

Configuring ADS

Before being able to import ADFI file to ADS you need to do these simple steps to get ADS ADFI import tool enable

In ADS main window, from menu bar select Tools > App Manager
In the opened dialog check ADFI Import Tools
Restart the ADS

Import to ADS

Create a workspace or open an existed one.
In the main window from menu bar select File > Import > Design
In the File Type section select ADFI File Format from the list.
Select your ADFI file and click on the OK button.

Extra Notes

1. Selecting the interested nets and creating ports in Allegro surly takes some time but the effort will payback in the simulation process (creating port in Allegro is much easier than in the ADS specially if you are dealing with a complex board)

2. After selection process saving the file WILL NOT save the selected nets. So if it take you too long to setup the board, don’t forget to save your work by using State > Save State in Export To ADS/EMPro menu bar

َََUseful Links

1. YouTube – ADS Data Link Basics (Part 1 of 3)

2. Keysight – EEsof EDA Blog

3. Dr. Muehlhaus -Momentum port: global ground or differential?

4. Virginia Tech – ADS Momentum Tutorial

AHK Binding not Works on All Application

Published on 2017-08-28 in Software, Windows

I use AutoHotkey in almost all my application but I notice some Qt applications (Like ADS) had some difficulty interpreting the AHK keys correctly. The problem turns out to be affiliated with UAC and Admin rights rather than the Qt library. To solve the issue simply add following lines to the top of your AHK scripts that you want to be applied on the specific app.

#SingleInstance Force
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
if not A_IsAdmin
   Run *RunAs "%A_ScriptFullPath%" ; Run Script as admin

This problem arises when you open a software instance with the admin rights while the AHK script doesn’t spawn with the same permission level. The above script simply run AHK with admin rights too so whether application is with or without admin right AHK script will always be able to set the key bindings.

Team Solid Squad

Xilinx SDK Not Opening After Crash

Published on 2017-07-20 in Xilinx

State The Problem

This is a bug I found in many versions of Xilinx Vivado package and I actually now struggling with it in 2017.2 version. I don’t check out newer versions so it maybe already been solved, idk! Anyway, in my version on the Linux platform, if you open the SDK normally and then for whatever reason kill the machine or the program you cannot open the SDK again whatsoever. As I said I’m running Vivado on Arch Linux 2016.10 version so again this maybe not happen on Windows hosts.

Solution

There may be a lot of workaround for this, but this works for me more or less.

Go to your Vivado project folder and enter your SDK sub folder.
Trun on hidden visibility so you can see the dot files.
Go to following path
<Vivado Project>/<proj name>.sdk/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources
Find a file with extention .snap and kill that bastard!!!
Try to lunch SDK again and the problem should be gone.

DDR3 Length Matching – ZYNQ 7000

Published on 2017-06-26 in Electrical Engineering

Lately DDR3 is becoming more prevalent in new custom designs however I find that there isn’t much comprehensive document available for newcomers to the DDR franchise. Here I wrote down my own bootstrap on learning DDR3 jargons and way up to design and understand underline rationale behind the DDR3 length matching.

Why DDR

The first question you might ask is why to use DDR. All signals we send on wire or through air are occuping some bandwidth. On spectrum side, the signal bandwidth are so invaluable but what about on the PCBs. Is it important? Yes. The higher the bandwidth, the more delicate design is required and a higher loss would be observed on the signal path. This means that the higher frequencies portion would be attenuated more and to compensate that you need some sort of equlizer circuits like analog DFEs and … . But why bother to send higher bandwidth signals? In short, to acheive more data rate. So heres the thing. In these cases, DDR is used to maintain the bandwidth and at the same time doubles the data rate! How? You know…, by send and receive signal in both clock edges. and you know the rest.

DDR1, 2 and 3 Whats the difference

After that lets talk about the analogy between each ddr generation. In each leap in ddr generation the bus frequency would become higher and Vcc will be lower but except from these, the main improvement in each new version of DDR is incremental increases in prefetch bit size. Before I explain this more, you should know that apart from memory data rate, the internal clk frequency of DDR chip is not more than of 200MHz. So how a 200MHz memory could transfer data at rate of up to 102.4 Gb/s . The answer is by using as many as pins as possible, and using a serialising/deserialising technique.

DDR1 had prefetch size of 2 bit so the IO rate is doubled of internal rate by multiplexing 2 bit and send it in higher frequency on a single line. DDR2 has prefetch size of 4 bit and DDR3, 8 bit. Thats how DDR memories maintain their internal clk while acheiveing higher troughput in each new generation.

DDR Pins

Back to the main topic, lets introduce signaling of DDR chips. I assume a DDR3 chip here but you should able to generalize it to other DDR generation as well. At the top level, The DDR signals are divided into two categories, Data and nonData(CNTL/CLK/Address). The first thing is although it may not seem like it but these two categories have no relation with each other. Data category or DQ for short (Q used becuase of the same reason it used in Flip-Flop) have it’s own clock, DQS (Data strobe), while CNTL/CLK/Address are syncronized with other signal which is CLK. Therefore for routing (layout phase) on PCB each category should length match to ONLY it’s own members.

Behind The Scene

If you are not intrested in knowing how this is possible, please move on. So how Data send and recieved without syncronizing with addresses and control signals? The answer is they are synced at inside of the chip. DDR used a DLL (Delay Locked Loop) which add digital delay to signal to sync data and other signal from inside controller point of view. This pull out the pressure of matching all signal flight times and allow more degree of freedom and ease of use for DDR routing at the board level. The delay value will determined during Memory Training phase. This process is run after power up sequence and calibrate the delay of data group to the clk. The only requirment here is to have CLK be delayed longer than the longest DQS pair.

Byte Lane

Lukily data signals also breaks down into smaller group and each group has it’s own data strobe (CLK). With each byte lane have an independent clk, the contraint for length mathing diminish once more and only length matching inside a byte lane is required.

Data Group: $M D Q S (8 : 0), \bar{M D Q S} (8 : 0), M D M (8 : 0), M D Q (63 : 0), M E C C (7 : 0)$

Address/CMD Group: $M B A (2 : 0), M A (15 : 0), \bar{M R A S}, \bar{M C A S}, \bar{M W E}$

Control Group: $\bar{M C S} (3 : 0), M C K E (3 : 0), M O D T (3 : 0)$

Clock Group: $M C K (5 : 0)$ $\bar{M C K} (5 : 0)$

Final Note

Following checklist should be served as a good epilogue for this post:

Transmission Line Impedance should be 40Ohm with 10 percent tolerance
CLK trace should be longer than the longest DQS path
DQ signal are allowed to swap inside of a byte lane
Cross talk is an important issues in DDR3 SI. micron have a good constraint about how much signals can be tightening together.
For ZYNQ-7000 10ps is the length mathing margin. It translate to 10mils on a FR4 substrate.

Useful Links

StackExchange – Rams and DQ lines

GitHub – Understanding DDR Memory Training

Xilinx – DQS to CK maximum on Zynq PS DDR Controller

Is it good practice to length match all traces of DDR3

Evdev Wheel Emulation by keyboard

Published on 2017-05-27 in Linux

One of the great feature of XInput is “Mouse Wheel Emulation” that I graceful with it for more than 5 years. Lately I notice it relieve my hand If I could trig wheel emulation by a key on keyboard instead of a mouse button.

Unfortunately up to this time Evdev not support that and pushing a mouse button through a synthetic way (like using bash script or liunx API) won’t trick EvDev. The reason behind this is that Evdev Wheel Emulation is a device specific driver. you won’t be able to enable it on all devices so it only executed if a button is pressed only on the specific device that you enable emulation on . Moreover after the triggering, wheel emulation only apply to movement of this specific devices with trigger. The figure below show two scenario that lead to unsuccessful wheel emulation.

In a nutshell if you press mouse button source from a bash script emulation not work because EvDev driver won’t get it at all thus the button press have to come from a event-based device and not a complete virtual software. Additionally the movement and button press should come from same device. So as shown in the image, movement on Mouse #1 won’t do the emulation triggered from Mouse #2. To recap:

The button press should come from an event-based device
Trigger and movement should be on same device

Solution: Uinput-Mapper

Uinput is a kernel module to create event-based device. Uinput-Mapper is a wrapper around uinput in python that can create duplicate from a physical device and then manipulate it. Unfortunately python and Uinput-Mapper are slow and that can cause unexpected lag on mouse movement so the idea in here is to only use Uinput-Mapper under necessary cicumstances.

Uinput-Mapper can be cloned from this github repositories. If you get a glimpse of uinput-mapper, you notice two files input-read and input-create. input-read is a python script that read all event from a event-based device and spit all events out in form of pickle to stdout. For those who like me that don’t know what pickle is, pickle is a saving format. It can save and restore any type of variable so with power of pickle you can save a complex class and restor all variables and function in the state that it had been saved before.

Now what is input-create? input-create is twin of input-read that first create a event-base device and then get all event from stdin in form of pickle and then execut the events on a virtual device that has been just created by the script. To summerize input-read capture all events from an actual device and convert it to pickle, and then input create duplicate device and execute captured events coming from input-read.

So you had to pipeline all output of input read to input-create with something like command shown below

$ ./input-read -D /dev/input/event3 | ./input-create

The -D option in above command imply that input-read output is in format of pickle(not in a human readable format).

Keycode Based Shortcut Trigger

Now the time hase come to manipulate uinput-mapper to our requiment. I think posting all codes in here will clutter the post structure so I explain basic of modification applied on uinput-mapper and leave all codes to my github Bijoux repository.

First we need a script to trigger on pressing a key on keyboard. For sake of simplicity and because of my extra experience with bash I use bash over python to do the key detection and then used stdio to pass it to input-read. The big picture here is first using input-mapper we create a duplicate of our physical mouse. How? by running exact command mentioned above. Then we disable the physical mouse in XInput by running

$ xinput disable $MOUSE_ID

Now instead of data passing directly to EvDev, it pipelined through synthetic event-base device and then pass to EvDev. Here the trick is to write a script (we call it shortcut from now on) to detect a shortcut and then when a shortcut is detected we inject a synthetic event into virtual mouse that we have been created previously. Now from EvDev perspective, this won’t be any different from the event Physical Mouse #1 generate so it trigger the emulation wheel and moving in x/y direction actually scroll the screen on the active window. The figure below demostrate the forgoing concept.

shortcut script detect a key press -> send a notification to input-read -> input-read load a previously recorded button press -> send recorded event to uinput-create -> uinput-create execute synthethic event as the same as other event come from mouse #1 -> …

Performance Issue

As remark previously, python scripts are slow intrinsically passing all mouse events through it cannot be accepted from performance point of view. Furthuremore in my brief test script runtime speed create not dramatic but noticable lag on mouse movement. To solve this issue bridge solution described above should only applied if and only if the wheel emulation should excute on that time. To do that following vivid shortcut (script) clears how this can be done.

The script is nothing more than a program than switch between physical mouse and virtual mouse on the fly. This is accomplished by using enable/disable function of XInput

#!/bin/bash
MOUSE_ID=($(xinput list | grep -m 1 MOUSE_MODEL | awk -F "=" '{print $2}' | awk -F " " '{print $1}'))
VIRTUAL_ID=14

while read -r line
do
    #echo $line
	if [ "$line" == "key press   108" ];then
		echo 1 #inform input-read
		xinput disable $MOUSE_ID
		xinput enable $VIRTUAL_ID
		while read -r line
		do
			if [ "$line" == "key release 108" ];then
				echo 0 #inform input-read
				xinput enable $MOUSE_ID
				xinput disable $VIRTUAL_ID
				break
			else
				break
			fi
		done < <(xinput test 12)
	fi
done < <(xinput test 12)

Deploy Qt/QML on Windows

Published on 2017-03-03 in Linux

To deploy qt application or harder QML app you need a tool called windeployqt availible in C:\Qt\Qt5.7.0\5.7\mingw53_32\bin or something like that. To get start open a cmd there and add QtBin path to your enviroment PATH variable.

$set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Qt\Qt5.7.0\5.7\mingw53_32\bin

run following

$windeployqt --qmldir I:\Home\Projects\AllegroAss\UI I:\Home\Projects\AllegroAss\Sources I:\Home\Projects\AllegroAss\Sources\release

Add some icon, spice (winpthread libgcc_s_dw2-1 and libstdc++-6) and you are done.

BM71 No UART Response

Published on 2017-02-03 in Linux

First of all Microchip BM71 is the shittiest module I have ever seen in my life. The antenna gain is poor. Documentation is so bad that simple things are missing and maximum throughput is limited to 3KB/s with 10ms as minimum connection interval. You can find how I calculate the throughput by checking on this article about BLE specification. Here I assume you had the module. Already tried to communicate with it through UART and you failed to get any response back and now you are wondering why the module won’t reply.

The answer is quite simple, because the module is in the Transparent Mode. Transparent Mode is a state which all UART data sent to the module will simply sent out on bluetooth and no matter what you send in, the module wont respond you back. This state is sufficient if you want to send/receive data for simple tasks. But as soon as you need to change Device Name, TX Power or anything else you are stuck.

To get around this, In the Microchip way you have no way but to buy BM71 PICtail evaluation board. Although this should be simple and straightforward I don’t like how it sound. I mean ّI hate this marketing method that “Buy our evaluation board or you can’t use the module”. So here is a workaround to overcome this problem without access to PICtail.

Program BM71 Without PICtail EVM

My module is BM71BLES1FC2-0002AA which according to datasheet must use the PC tools ending with 0002AA. BM71 Module use IS1871 chip inside. It is a little confusing but inside IS1871 page there exist a Firmware & Software Tools v1.06 (matched to my model) that have all necessary tools to configure and update BM71 module firmware.

Now here if your customized board have a high performance uController on it you just need to create a shadow CDC device that get all data coming from USB and send it to BM71. So the all fancy PICtail EVM is nothing more than a “usb to serial (UART)” converter. you need a high performance uColntroller as if the conversion speed is not fast enough isupdate Firmware updateTool through error into your face as it did happen to me. In the case you face the same error as me you need to get knowing IS1870 chip better so you can write your own firmware update tool.

IS1871 Memory Map

IS1871 have 256 Kbytes embedded Flash memory that have all firmware and module configuration. The firmware is the software that operate module during normal operation and configuration is a part of firmware that indicate Device Name, TX Power and anything else that specified as a option in the datasheet.

The firmware start from address 0x0000 and end in 0x40000. The configuration start from 0x35000 and end in 0x37000 with 0x2000 as length. The module use a firmware called BLEDK3. To change the setting for module you have to first generate the configuration header and then write the generated file to the mentioned memory address. For header generation there exist a tool with name IS187x_102_BLEDK3_UI v100.123 inside UserInterfaceTool_V100_123 folder of Firmware & Software Tools v1.06 that you downloaded earlier.

If you need more detail on how to do this please feel free to leave a comment below.

Preparing For Writing To BM71

There are 3 steps you need to do before you able to write any data on BM71.

Step 1: Enter EEPROM Mode

There is a special mode that called eeprom mode (or programming mode). The first step is to enter eeprom mode that clearly explained in the manual and BM71 datasheet. in a few words, you need to set a special pin and while holding the pin at specified level, reset the module

Step 2: Connect To Module

After entering eeprom mode, the module stop the LED blinking (if you had one on your board). then you need to send 0x01, 0x05, 0x04, 0x0D, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 I don’t know why this and what data they represent but sending out this will get the state machine to “CONNECTED” state. If the operation is successful you should get something from module (If you need to know the exact response feel free to ask)

Step 3: Erase The Flash

This step seems optional but it’s not. If you don’t send erase command before writing, any attempt to change memory will result in fail writing and memory won’t change. Again I don’t know why is module working this way or if I using it in a wrong way but I can’t write any register if I don’t send Erase command before to do so.

Secondly I don’t know where the erase command does actually erase. On my simple check this command only erase configuration area that I specified before and firmware remained unchanged but I’m not sure if it’s always the case.

To erase flash send 0x02, 0xFF, 0x0F, 0x0E, 0x00, 0x12, 0x01, 0x0A, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x40, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x20, 0x00, 0x00 any response should indicate the erase operation is successful. I highly recommend to wait 1 second before sending any further command.

I noticed that the flash operation have some inside timeout watch dog. If the writing command execute later than this timeout any write attempt result in failure.

Step ∞: Disconnect

The last step after all read/write operation is disconnection. This option seems to be optional but highly recommended to execute. The disconnect packet is 0x01, 0x06, 0x04, 0x03, 0xFF, 0x0F, 0x00

BM71 Writing

To write a register we start with a base command template then fill it with appropriate value.

Write Template: 0x02, 0xFF, 0x0F, 0x0E, 0x00, 0x11, 0x01, 0x0A, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x46, 0x03,0x00, 0x20, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00

packet_size = data_size + 19;
address = 0x35000;

write_temp[3] = 14 + data_size;//ACL
write_temp[5] = 0x11; //COMMAND=WRITE
write_temp[7] = 10 + data_size;//ISDAP
write_temp[15] = block_size;//LENGTH
memcpy(&write_temp[11],(uint8_t*) &address, sizeof(address));//ADDRESS
memcpy(&write_temp[19],(uint8_t*) (eeprom_table), data_size);//Data

The data_size is in byte. In above example I used data_size=16. On a successful write, BM71 return 0x02, 0xFF, 0x0F, 0x0E, 0x00, 0x10, 0x01, 0x0A, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x46, 0x03,0x00, 0x20, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 on a failure due to requirement for flash, the second to last 0x00 will changes to 0x01.

Enable Wake Up by Keyboard/Mouse on Arch Linux

Published on 2016-10-12 in Linux

The power button on my pc case is not very handy to work with, which made waking up by mouse/keyboard an awesome idea. The first thing to achieve this is obviously, getting inside bios and enable the wake up option for keyboard/mouse, LAN or whatever you like. You probably at this step expect that things get to work out of the box.

Well…. probably no. but still you got chance. from my experience some device works out of the box and some simply don’t. why? I think because they are a little too complicated for ACPI to handle them. Here I summarize my workaround to get these kind of devices work.

Step 1: Find device path

First of all you need to find device path. Device path is both the way that the device is connected to your computer and also the way you can access your device settings on your computer. To get this path, all you need is to find your keyboard/mouse node on /dev path and feed it to udevadm. As an example for my keyboard executing something like

udevadm info -q path -n /dev/input/event0
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-5/1-5:1.0/0003:04F2:0833.0001/input/input2/event0

give this path and for mouse executing

udevadm info -q path -n /dev/input/mouse0
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-13/1-13:1.0/0003:1BCF:0002.0003/input/input4/mouse0

Step 2: Find your lucky wakeup file

Next you need to surf on your device path and find a file named wakeup. it may be in your device path/power. if not look it parent directory and foreword until you find the right file. For example in my case, wakeup file turned out to be /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-13/power/wakeup. Then you should write enabled inside this file by running

sudo sh -c "echo enabled > '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-13/power/wakeup'"

If you are standing on a right place then probably double clicking cause your pc to wake up after suspension. if not try to looking the parent folder.

Step 3: Make The Process into Auto mode

As you know udev let you run script if specific device connected to the kernel, we exploit the idea and enable wakeup for our little cute mice.

/etc/udev/rules.d/90-keyboardwakeup.rules
-----------------------
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1b1c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1b19" RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo enabled > /sys$env{DEVPATH}/../power/wakeup;'"

Hope You Enjoy

Install ADS 2015.01 on Arch Linux

Published on 2016-05-05 in Electrical Engineering

Advanced Design System officially support RHel 5, RHel 6 and Solaris 10. My desktop use ARCH Linux, which is not listed in the support platforms. So some steps have to taken before get ADS to work. Here I summarize my walkaround on installing ADS on Arch Linux platform which it may or may not be possible to applied on any distribution other than Arch.

Installation Steps:

Install ADS on your PC using SETUP.sh shell script. Keep in mind that Install ADS on a path with no white-space or special character, although ADS setup does not complain, this cause fatal error in ADS runtime.
From try and error it seems that ADS use Qt 4.8.6 which is have minor changes that make it incompatible with Qt4 provided from arch repository. Fortunately Qt 4.8.6 is packed inside ADS path, so it can be readily used by adding it to LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
Edit LD_LIBRARY_PATH in <ADS_PATH>/bin/ads
```
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HPEESOF_DIR/lib/linux_x86_64:$HPEESOF_DIR/lib/linux_x86:$HPEESOF_DIR/adsptolemy/lib.linux_x86_64:$HPEESOF_DIR/SystemVue/2014.10/linux_x86_64/bin/MATLABScript/sys/os/glnxa64:$HPEESOF_DIR/adsptolemy/lib.linux_x86:$HPEESOF_DIR/SystemVue/2014.10/linux_x86_64/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
```
Create a duplicate from libXm.so.3 and rename it to libXm.so.4 in <ADS_PATH>/SystemVue/2014.10/linux_x86_64/bin/MATLABScript/sys/os/glnxa64. This may seems weird, so just to be clear out libXm is for Solaris platform (desktop environment). We create this file just to prevent from linking error which is not cause any further problem as while as the running platform is not Solaris.
Install Dependencies which is needed by License ManagerADS software.
```
sudo pacman -S lsb-release libxp
yaourt ld-lsb
yaourt ksh
```
Run <ADS_PATH>/bin/ads

License Setup:

HostName: the computer name can be achieved by running following command

$uname -a 
 Linux Bijan-PC 4.4.7-1-lts #1 SMP Thu Apr 14 17:26:39 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux

which is revealed that my HostName is Bijan-PC
There is no MAC Address need for Linux platform on the other hand ADS use so-called CPUID which generate based on your platform which can be used to get license file from KeySight Corporation. CPUID, MAC and HostID are all the same. note that HostID is different from HostName

Tags: ADS, Advanced Design System, Keysight, Linux

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