LOW CBF Software CNIC v0.3.0

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Summary

Adds PTP/timestamp support.

Added

• Add pcap load/dump methods to HbmPacketController and CnicFpga
• Use new command-line infrastructure from ska-low-cbf-fpga
• Add experimental tx/rx commands to cnic command-line interface
• Use 4x FPGA memory buffers (each 4095MiB due to XRT limitations)
• Read timestamps along with received packets
• Add transmission rate parameter (Gbps)
• Add workaround for some machines crashing with pyxrt buffers >= 2GiB
• Add status update print statements

Changed

• compare_pcap speed up

Deprecated

• None

Removed

• None

Fixed

• Fix PTP interpretation (IEEE format, not fixed-point binary)
• compare_pcap bug fix

Security

• None