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

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!

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=12.4locale=entopic=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=12.4locale=entopic=release+notes), I found out that I did not appropriately set the

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 create

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

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 silly

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

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. Evidently

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

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): $$(SOURCES)

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

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\USRP2make

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:

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

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

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.

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 install

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

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 me to

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? Thanks From: trecakov...@hotmail.com To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Date: Fri, 19 Aug

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 project

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 binary is

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

2011-08-19 Thread Patrik Tast
Nemanja, 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. 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) Type path /? in cmd.exe for help Patrik

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 n...@ettus.com 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.

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 n...@ettus.com 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 n...@ettus.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 23:26 +0100, Nemanja Trecakov wrote: 1) Did anybody use this

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 n...@ettus.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 21:47 +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 21:15, Nick Foster n...@ettus.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 18:00 +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: Hi Nick, On Sat, Aug 13,

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 n...@ettus.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 21:47 +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 21:15, Nick Foster n...@ettus.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 18:00 +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: Hi Nick, On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at

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 n...@ettus.com 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

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 Linux ISE

[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

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 functionality