casperfpga 0.2.2

A library for monitor and control of CASPER FPGA deivces
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# casperfpga_rs


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A Rust library for interfacing with CASPER Collaboration FPGA devices. Unlike the [python version](https://github.com/casper-astro/casperfpga), this library is intended for mission-critical deployments, where breaking changes, memory bugs, and slow/interpreted languages are unacceptable. Additionally, this library will be rigorously tested, documented, and utilize fully specified interfaces.

## Goals


- Lightweight, fast, correct by construction interfaces
- Type-checked constructors based on device information (FPG file)
- Generic fall back interfaces

## Future Work


### Yellow Blocks


There are quite a few missing yellow blocks in this library, mainly due to the fact that I don't have hardware to test them on. PRs (or hardware donations) welcome!

### Transports


Reconcile [katcp](https://github.com/kiranshila/katcp) requirements with "as implemented" details from CASPER devices to add katcp as a transport mechanism.

### Device Tree


Currently, `.fpg` files are the source of automatically generating typesafe interfaces for a given design. If CASPER adopts device tree, we'd want to write a parser that performs the same translation.

### Python Integration


We started working on a python wrapper utilizing [py03](https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3) to act as a multipurpose rewrite of the python version. This won't be as typesafe (of course), but should act as a more stable and tested stand-in for the previous python version.

## Contributing


Please run `cargo +nightly fmt --all` before commiting as well as check clippy with `cargo clippy --all`.

### License


casperfpga_rs is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0).

See LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for details.