Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-04-13 Thread Matt Ettus
On 04/12/2010 05:22 PM, Vikram Ragukumar wrote: Matt, In our effort to distill the gemac core and related logic, we have pulled out the following module under u2_core SERDES, Dsp core, UART, external RAM interface and the buffer pool The mac is all contained in simple_gemac, and above that in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-04-12 Thread Vikram Ragukumar
Matt, In our effort to distill the gemac core and related logic, we have pulled out the following module under u2_core SERDES, Dsp core, UART, external RAM interface and the buffer pool The mac is all contained in simple_gemac, and above that in simple_gemac_wrapper: which is instantiated in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-04-09 Thread Vikram Ragukumar
Matt, 3) Do you have an FPGA internal achitecture block diagram of any type? Is there another group you're aware of doing such "major modification" FPGA work that we might talk to? There were some on the wiki at one time. If they're not still there I'll post a talk I did which covers the ar

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-04-09 Thread Jeff Brower
Matt- >> My understanding is that it takes 3 BUFGs and one DCM for tri-mode (maybe >> one more of each for RGMII support but I >> don't see that) and, between this and other USRP2 needs, you ran into the >> limit of 8. Is that accurate? Or would >> 10/100/1000 support would take more than 3...

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-04-09 Thread Matt Ettus
My understanding is that it takes 3 BUFGs and one DCM for tri-mode (maybe one more of each for RGMII support but I don't see that) and, between this and other USRP2 needs, you ran into the limit of 8. Is that accurate? Or would 10/100/1000 support would take more than 3... I can't say how

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-04-08 Thread Jeff Brower
Matt- >> About Vikram's 10/100 mode question, we were wondering if it's a design >> flaw; i.e. something wrong from the start in >> the original opencores.org source, or if it's fixable but hasn't been a high >> priority item given USRP2's high data >> rate requirements. But then I found this p

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-04-08 Thread Matt Ettus
On 04/07/2010 05:58 PM, Vikram Ragukumar wrote: Matt, Thank you for your email. The mac is all contained in simple_gemac, and above that in simple_gemac_wrapper: http://code.ettus.com/redmine/ettus/projects/fpga/repository/revisions/master/show/usrp2/simple_gemac simple_gemac_wrapper in the fi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-04-08 Thread Matt Ettus
On 04/07/2010 09:10 PM, Jeff Brower wrote: Matt- About Vikram's 10/100 mode question, we were wondering if it's a design flaw; i.e. something wrong from the start in the original opencores.org source, or if it's fixable but hasn't been a high priority item given USRP2's high data rate requirem

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-04-07 Thread Jeff Brower
Matt- About Vikram's 10/100 mode question, we were wondering if it's a design flaw; i.e. something wrong from the start in the original opencores.org source, or if it's fixable but hasn't been a high priority item given USRP2's high data rate requirements. But then I found this post: http://

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-04-07 Thread Vikram Ragukumar
Matt, Thank you for your email. The mac is all contained in simple_gemac, and above that in simple_gemac_wrapper: http://code.ettus.com/redmine/ettus/projects/fpga/repository/revisions/master/show/usrp2/simple_gemac simple_gemac_wrapper in the fifo_2clock_cascade files. which is instantiated i

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-04-06 Thread Matt Ettus
On 03/30/2010 11:48 AM, Jeff Brower wrote: Matt- We're working on a project at Signalogic to interface one of our DSP array PCIe cards to the USRP2. This would provide a way for one or more TI DSPs to "insert" into the data flow and run C/C++ code for low-latency and/or other high performance a