Re: Using RFNoC blocks for satellite systems
This is a bit from the top of my head, so take with a grain of salt, but: The problem with a port, aside from the space in the FPGA of the B210 simply being too small, is that the CHDR crossbar, i.e., the actual "network operation center" for the namesake Network-on-Chip, is based on an AXI crossbar core that Xilinx doesn't offer for the 6th gen FPGAs. Now, one could argue "well, write it yourself!", and they'd probably hit a wall the moment they start trying to work the same kind of asynchronous clock domain crossings that the 7th gen Xilinx FPGAs bring. But, that's hearsay to me, never looked into what the IP core actually uses on the FPGA. Best regards, Marcus M On 26.01.24 23:32, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 26/01/2024 17:28, Kevin McQuiggin wrote: No it doesn’t! Are we violently agreeing here? The B2xx family FPGAs aren't supported by the RFNOC toolchain, and they're not very big. You could, probably "port" the RFNOC toolchain to these FPGAs, but my understanding is that it would be a lot of work. Regardless, officially, RNOC IS NOT SUPPORTED on B2xx hardware. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2024, at 14:22, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 26/01/2024 17:07, Daniel Estévez wrote: Hi Yotam, As far as I know, the B200 doesn't support RFNOC. From https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/rfnoc/ "all USRP devices from the third-generation on (X300 Series, E300 Series) are supported by RFNoC out-of-the-box". Best, Daniel. This is the case, yes. The FPGAs in the B2xx series aren't compatible with the RFNOC toolchain for one, and aren't really big enough to support the RFNOC framework inside the FPGA. On 26/01/2024 21:04, יותם זיס wrote: Hi everyone, I'm currently working on a bpsk modem for S-band communication with the Tevel and TAUSAT satellites. I recently started reading about RFNoc and it intrigued me for use in my project since I own a USRP B200. Would love some advice on whether or not to try this out and if so how to implement it correctly, thanks. Attached - a picture of my flowgraph, currently the uplink is connected directly to the downlink but usually i use a lime mini for transmission.
Re: Using RFNoC blocks for satellite systems
On 26/01/2024 17:28, Kevin McQuiggin wrote: No it doesn’t! Are we violently agreeing here? The B2xx family FPGAs aren't supported by the RFNOC toolchain, and they're not very big. You could, probably "port" the RFNOC toolchain to these FPGAs, but my understanding is that it would be a lot of work. Regardless, officially, RNOC IS NOT SUPPORTED on B2xx hardware. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2024, at 14:22, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 26/01/2024 17:07, Daniel Estévez wrote: Hi Yotam, As far as I know, the B200 doesn't support RFNOC. From https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/rfnoc/ "all USRP devices from the third-generation on (X300 Series, E300 Series) are supported by RFNoC out-of-the-box". Best, Daniel. This is the case, yes. The FPGAs in the B2xx series aren't compatible with the RFNOC toolchain for one, and aren't really big enough to support the RFNOC framework inside the FPGA. On 26/01/2024 21:04, יותם זיס wrote: Hi everyone, I'm currently working on a bpsk modem for S-band communication with the Tevel and TAUSAT satellites. I recently started reading about RFNoc and it intrigued me for use in my project since I own a USRP B200. Would love some advice on whether or not to try this out and if so how to implement it correctly, thanks. Attached - a picture of my flowgraph, currently the uplink is connected directly to the downlink but usually i use a lime mini for transmission.
Re: Using RFNoC blocks for satellite systems
No it doesn’t! Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 26, 2024, at 14:22, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > > On 26/01/2024 17:07, Daniel Estévez wrote: >> Hi Yotam, >> >> As far as I know, the B200 doesn't support RFNOC. From >> >> https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/rfnoc/ >> >> "all USRP devices from the third-generation on (X300 Series, E300 Series) >> are supported by RFNoC out-of-the-box". >> >> Best, >> Daniel. > This is the case, yes. The FPGAs in the B2xx series aren't compatible with > the RFNOC toolchain for one, and aren't really > big enough to support the RFNOC framework inside the FPGA. > > >> >>> On 26/01/2024 21:04, יותם זיס wrote: >>> Hi everyone, I'm currently working on a bpsk modem for S-band communication >>> with the Tevel and TAUSAT satellites. I recently started reading about >>> RFNoc and it intrigued me for use in my project since I own a USRP B200. >>> Would love some advice on whether or not to try this out and if so how to >>> implement it correctly, thanks. >>> >>> Attached - a picture of my flowgraph, currently the uplink is connected >>> directly to the downlink but usually i use a lime mini for transmission. >> > >
Re: Using RFNoC blocks for satellite systems
On 26/01/2024 17:07, Daniel Estévez wrote: Hi Yotam, As far as I know, the B200 doesn't support RFNOC. From https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/rfnoc/ "all USRP devices from the third-generation on (X300 Series, E300 Series) are supported by RFNoC out-of-the-box". Best, Daniel. This is the case, yes. The FPGAs in the B2xx series aren't compatible with the RFNOC toolchain for one, and aren't really big enough to support the RFNOC framework inside the FPGA. On 26/01/2024 21:04, יותם זיס wrote: Hi everyone, I'm currently working on a bpsk modem for S-band communication with the Tevel and TAUSAT satellites. I recently started reading about RFNoc and it intrigued me for use in my project since I own a USRP B200. Would love some advice on whether or not to try this out and if so how to implement it correctly, thanks. Attached - a picture of my flowgraph, currently the uplink is connected directly to the downlink but usually i use a lime mini for transmission.
Re: Using RFNoC blocks for satellite systems
Hi Yotam, As far as I know, the B200 doesn't support RFNOC. From https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/rfnoc/ "all USRP devices from the third-generation on (X300 Series, E300 Series) are supported by RFNoC out-of-the-box". Best, Daniel. On 26/01/2024 21:04, יותם זיס wrote: Hi everyone, I'm currently working on a bpsk modem for S-band communication with the Tevel and TAUSAT satellites. I recently started reading about RFNoc and it intrigued me for use in my project since I own a USRP B200. Would love some advice on whether or not to try this out and if so how to implement it correctly, thanks. Attached - a picture of my flowgraph, currently the uplink is connected directly to the downlink but usually i use a lime mini for transmission. OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
