Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] alternate fpga image

[Eric Blossom]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 08:37:18PM -0800, Loconut wrote:
> 
> I've tried placing my usrp_std.rbf in /usr/local/share/usrp/rev2 (I have a
> rev3 board) as well as in rev4, but that fails to load my firmware.. I also
> tried eiding transmit_path.py (testing gmsk) to be:
>        self.u = usrp.sink_c(fusb_block_size=self._fusb_block_size,
> fusb_nblocks=self._fusb_nblocks,
> fpga_filename="/usr/local/share/usrp/rev2/usrp_std.rbf")
> 
> at line 109 and that causes:
> address@hidden digital]# ./benchmark_tx.py -f 10e6 -r 100k -M .01
> Can't find fpga bitstream: /usr/local/share/usrp/rev2/usrp_std.rbf
> 
> yet:
> address@hidden digital]# ls -la /usr/local/share/usrp/rev2/
> total 748
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Jan 13 22:27 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root   4096 Jan 13 10:08 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180809 Jan 13 10:08 multi_2rxhb_2tx.rbf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176948 Jan 13 10:08 std_2rxhb_2tx.rbf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173865 Jan 13 10:08 std_4rx_0tx.rbf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  17622 Jan 13 10:08 std.ihx
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 177037 Jan 13 22:05 usrp_std.rbf
> 
> did I miss something?

You can specify the fpga image to load using the fpga_filename keyword
argument.  E.g.,

  u = usrp.sink_c(fpga_filename = 'myfile.rbf')

Eric