[Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-12 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
Hi list, My name is Nemanja and I am working on my master thesis trying to implement 802.11g OFDM standard on USRP2 with XCVR2450. In order to meet the timing requirements of the standard, I want to split the functionality between the host and the FPGA, very similar to Split-functionality M

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-12 Thread Nick Foster
On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 23:26 +0100, Nemanja Trecakov wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > > My name > is Nemanja and I am working on my master thesis trying to implement > 802.11g OFDM standard on USRP2 with XCVR2450. In order to meet the > timing requirements of the standard, I want to split the > fun

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-14 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
Josh and Nick, thank you very much for your reply. I have some more things to ask: > >> 1) The external SRAM is currently used for buffering TX packets > >> > >> 2) The existing makefile is really for unix installations. You will have a > > much easier time compiling your custom image with a L

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-17 Thread Alexander Chemeris
Hi Nick, On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 02:41, Nick Foster wrote: > On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 23:26 +0100, Nemanja Trecakov wrote: >> 1) Did anybody use this external SRAM >> on USRP2 before? According to the FAQ page the usual FPGA build is >> not using it. >> (http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-17 Thread Alexander Chemeris
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 21:15, Nick Foster wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 18:00 +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: >> Hi Nick, >> >> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 02:41, Nick Foster wrote: >> > On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 23:26 +0100, Nemanja Trecakov wrote: >> >> 1) Did anybody use this external SRAM >> >> on

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-17 Thread Nick Foster
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 21:47 +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 21:15, Nick Foster wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 18:00 +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: > >> Hi Nick, > >> > >> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 02:41, Nick Foster wrote: > >> > On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 23:26 +0100, Nem

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-17 Thread Colby Boyer
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Nick Foster wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 21:47 +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 21:15, Nick Foster wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 18:00 +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: > > >> Hi Nick, > > >> > > >> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 02:41

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-17 Thread Alexander Chemeris
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 21:50, Nick Foster wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 21:47 +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 21:15, Nick Foster wrote: >> > On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 18:00 +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: >> >> Hi Nick, >> >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 02:41, Nick Fo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-17 Thread Nick Foster
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 18:00 +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: > Hi Nick, > > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 02:41, Nick Foster wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 23:26 +0100, Nemanja Trecakov wrote: > >> 1) Did anybody use this external SRAM > >> on USRP2 before? According to the FAQ page the usual FPGA bu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-19 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
Hi list, I found the way to include the xctlsh in the %PATH% (http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm). However, now I have a new problem. Here is the error I get in the cmd.exe when I try gmake. Any help is appreciated! Best Regards, Nemanja Trecakov The error follows below: -

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-19 Thread Nick Foster
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 19:40 +0100, Nemanja Trecakov wrote: > Hi list, > > I found the way to include the xctlsh in the %PATH% > (http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm). > > However, now I have a new problem. Here is the error I get in the cmd.exe > when I try gmake. > > Any help is a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-19 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
Hi again, > The Makefiles really were designed to work on a Linux-based (Ubuntu, I > think) install of the Xilinx tools. You are probably going to > have plenty of grief making them work on Windows. > > Also, only a tiny fraction of the people on this list have actually > modifed the FPGA code th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 19/08/2011 3:05 PM, Nemanja Trecakov wrote: Hi again, I am aware of that, but I have to try. Can you suggest any better way? Get yourself a copy of VirtualBox or VmWare Player for your windows environment, and do a recent Ubuntu install into it, then install your Xilinx tools into that. T

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-19 Thread Josh Blum
On 08/19/2011 12:10 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 19/08/2011 3:05 PM, Nemanja Trecakov wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> I am aware of that, but I have to try. Can you suggest any better way? > Get yourself a copy of VirtualBox or VmWare Player for your windows > environment, and do a recent Ubuntu ins

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 19/08/2011 3:16 PM, Josh Blum wrote: On 08/19/2011 12:10 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 19/08/2011 3:05 PM, Nemanja Trecakov wrote: Hi again, I am aware of that, but I have to try. Can you suggest any better way? Get yourself a copy of VirtualBox or VmWare Player for your windows environme

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-19 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
> > Im fairly certain all you need is gnumake to be installed and xtclsh > from ISE to be in your %PATH%. I have never tried this, but i would be > happy to help debug it if there is some problem. > > -josh > Thank you both for your advices. Josh, in one of the earlier mails you already advised

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-19 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
nu.org > Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:36:48 +0100 > Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM > PHY and MAC on USRP2 > > > > > > Im fairly certain all you need is gnumake to be installed and xtclsh > > from ISE to be in your %PATH%

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-19 Thread Josh Blum
On 08/19/2011 12:53 PM, Nemanja Trecakov wrote: > > Sorry, I tried the command 'gmake'(not 'gnumake') in command promt while in > top\usrp2 folder in order to build the image. > Is this the correct way to run gnumake? > On linux, i type "make proj" in the top level directory to make the ise p

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-19 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
> > > > Sorry, I tried the command 'gmake'(not 'gnumake') in command promt while in > > top\usrp2 folder in order to build the image. > > Is this the correct way to run gnumake? > > > > On linux, i type "make proj" in the top level directory to make the ise > project file. I'm not sure what the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-19 Thread Patrik Tast
lp Patrik - Original Message - From: "Nemanja Trecakov" To: ; Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 0:13 Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2 > > Sorry, I tried the command 'gmake'(not 'gnumake

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-20 Thread Alex DEKKER
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:16:01 -0700, Josh Blum wrote: Im fairly certain all you need is gnumake to be installed and xtclsh from ISE to be in your %PATH%. I have never tried this, but i would be happy to help debug it if there is some problem. Evidently one also needs 'head' as well: http://g

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-22 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
Hi list, Thank you for your response! >You must tell your windows where your make/gmake is by setting the >environment variable PATH >to C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin (in your case) @Patrik & Josh: I added this to my path, and this helped. Now is 'make/gmake'-command recognizable. >Evide

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-22 Thread Josh Blum
> > @Josh: Yes, this was indeed the problem. I tried to change the line, > but then I got a new error 'missing separator. Stop.’ which means > that there were some irregular spaces between the commands in the > file. After many rounds with trying to find out what is wrong and > reading in the mak

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-22 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
> I made a simple rule to print the sources and they appear to be correct. > I suspect the secondary expansion is messed up, try this diff: > http://pastebin.com/hcrfCVse > > -josh > You are a real magician :) I followed your advice and deleted one $ sign in the two lines: -$(ISE_FILE): $$(SOU

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-22 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
There is one more thing which I didn't mention before, which can have some influence of the build-result: The Xilinx ISE 12.4 version for Windows which I am using is a copy which I got from the university's engineer. However, if I want to use all of the Xilinx functins, I have to connect to a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-22 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
> > > > ERROR:TclTasksC:xfile_070: File(s) "./)" cannot be found > > Undo your previous changes to the makefile.srcs I changed all the makefile.srcs to the original form, but a new error occurs: Error output: -- C:\USRP2_fpga_NEMO\usrp2\top\USRP2>make proc

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-30 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
Hi list, now I got a Linux copy of Xilinx 12.4 and I tried to build the UHD fpga image on ubuntu 10.04. with uhd version: UHD_003.001.002-ba0e3c8 I added the .bashrc to include xtclsh like this: #Include Xilix xtclsh in te path in order to be able to build FPGA images! XILINX_ROOT=/opt/Xilinx/1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-30 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
Hi list, I am pretty sure I know what is the problem. After reading the installation manual (http://www.xilinx.com/cgi-bin/SW_Docs_Redirect/sw_docs_redirect?ver=12.4&locale=en&topic=release+notes), I found out that I did not appropriately set the environment variables. It should be done with

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 08/30/2011 05:15 PM, Nemanja Trecakov wrote: Hi list, I am pretty sure I know what is the problem. After reading the installation manual (http://www.xilinx.com/cgi-bin/SW_Docs_Redirect/sw_docs_redirect?ver=12.4&locale=en&topic=release+notes), I found out that I did not appropriately set th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-30 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
>This is wandering very far away from the core topic of Gnu Radio, and into "help with Xilinx Tools". You *may* find people on this list who >can help you, just by pure blind luck, or maybe not. > >From the looks of it, and I'm no TCL expert, it looks like it was unable to c

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 08/30/2011 07:19 PM, Nemanja Trecakov wrote: Marcus, you were right - I did install the Xilinx ISE being root. However, when I tried to run the same command being root, the bash did not find the xtclsh. The next thing I did is to include the xtclsh into the PATH in .bashrc, but for root t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-30 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
>Doing anything other than *what is absolutely necessary* as *root* is a bad idea. Poor form. Entirely-ordinary things like compiling code >should always be done as a regular user. Learn to use and understand Unix ownership/permissions rules, so you don't end up in sill

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 08/30/2011 07:45 PM, Nemanja Trecakov wrote: >Doing anything other than *what is absolutely necessary* as *root* is a bad idea. Poor form. Entirely-ordinary things like compiling code >should always be done as a regular user. Learn to use and understand Unix ownership/permissions rules,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-08-30 Thread Nemanja Trecakov
>sudo chown -R your-user-id whatever-your-directory-is Owner of the directories changed :) >Don't think of the computer/OS as an obstacle that gets in the way of what you're doing. Think of it as a long-term partner. >You should think of a new computer/operating-system as a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2

2011-09-01 Thread Farhad Abdolian
Hi Folks, I find this discussion interesting and would like to ask a few questions. >I FIND THAT THE TWO FPGA IMAGES ARE DIFFERENT. What do you mean by different? Do they behave different? Or you used a program to compare the binary data comparison between the 2 and this is what you are saying