Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Announcement - November 23rd 2010

[Tom Rondeau]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Josh Blum <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Much code has been pushed and new images uploaded.
> http://code.ettus.com/redmine/ettus/projects/uhd/wiki
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -- Support for new devices
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Host code, firmware, and FPGA code for the new hardware has been pushed.
> This includes:
>
> USRP-N210
> USRP-E100
> DBSRX2
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -- Flow control work
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Work on host based flow control for the USRP2 has been merged into the
> mainline. New FPGA and fimware images must be written to the SD card to work
> with the latest host code. Host-based flow control removed the need for
> ethernet pause frames, allowing USRP2s to work with devices like switches
> and to perform better on TX overall.
>
> The docs have changed to reflect this:
> http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/usrp_nxxx.html#setup-networking
>
> Images packages here: http://www.ettus.com/downloads/uhd_images/
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -- API changes
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The deprecated simple and mimo blocks have been removed from UHD and gr-uhd.
> The deprecated blocks spit out a profuse amount of warnings. Everyone should
> be switched over to the single and multi USRP interfaces by now.
>
> I mentioned this last week (after an accidental push). The API for gain and
> frequency ranges has changed slightly. The gain range object no longer has
> members min, max, and step. These have been replaced with methods start(),
> stop(), and step(). In addition, a range can contain sub-ranges that can be
> iterated through, where each sub-range has a start(), stop(), and step().
> Motivating example: the XCVR2450 has a high-band and low-band frequency
> range.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -- UHD versioning
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Its been tough keeping gr-uhd and UHD in sync with each other. I have
> introduced a compatibility number into the UHD version string. Whenever API
> changes cause breaking changes to gr-uhd, the number will be incremented in
> UHD and in the gr-uhd package config checks.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -- Bug fixes
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> There was an issue in the FPGA code when transmitting simultaneous timed
> packets on USRP2. This has been resolved in the new FPGA image.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -- Name your USRP
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> You may assign a canonical name to your USRP device to more easily identify
> it on a host machine. The one on my desk is named Bobert:
>
> http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/identification.html#naming-a-usrp
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -- Feedback is welcome!
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -Josh


All great stuff Josh, thanks!

I'm especially glad you've got the versioning implemented. That should
help us keep everything sane, especially as we start to move towards
full UHD acceptance.

Tom