On 05/08/2019 01:24 PM, Robin Coxe wrote:
Hi Joe and Jason. So, I took a walk down Memory Lane and discovered
that the N210 was first released by Ettus Research in November 2010,
which was about 6 months after we were acquired by National Instruments.
It is a true statement that v2 of the hardware is quite geriatric and
no longer supported in modern versions of UHD. However, all hope is
not lost.
There *is* support for N200/N210 in the oldest version of UHD that is
still downloadable on files.ettus.com <http://files.ettus.com>, UHD
v.3.8.0.0. The FPGA images are in this zip file:
http://files.ettus.com/binaries/images/uhd-images_003.008.000-18-g6647f8cc.zip
We unfortunately don't have a v2 in the office to confirm that it
still works, but you might want to take a look.
-Robin
Unfortunately, the *.bit* files aren't in that images collection--only
the .bin files.
On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 10:02 AM Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users
<usrp-users@lists.ettus.com <mailto:usrp-users@lists.ettus.com>> wrote:
On 05/08/2019 12:56 PM, Joe Martin via USRP-users wrote:
Wow, okay; that’s disheartening. Thanks much for the info, Jason.
Nope, the Rev3 bit file doesn’t work; tried it. I’ll see if the
support email adr can be of use.
Joe
There was a hardware change, as I recall, between Rev2 and Rev3
involving the inputs to the ADCs.
On May 8, 2019, at 10:44 AM, Jason Matusiak
<ja...@gardettoengineering.com
<mailto:ja...@gardettoengineering.com>> wrote:
Joe, I think you might be SOL. If you take a look at this
thread from me last year, I had no luck:
http://lists.ettus.com/pipermail/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com/2018-April/056223.html
Also, when I pinged Ettus directly, here is some info I got back
from them (from two different emails in the thread):
"we've been having some trouble tracking down Rev2 bitfiles,
because no
one here was around when that was built. If you're trying to unbrick
them, Rev3 bitfiles might be OK, but I'm not completely sure.
supp...@ettus.com <mailto:supp...@ettus.com>might know more by know.
really sorry, but those Rev2s are just so old. And all the
people from
that era seem to be gone. Sorry, can't help you with those Rev2s."
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*Sent:*Wednesday, May 8, 2019 11:55 AM
*To:*Joe Martin via USRP-users
*Subject:*[USRP-users] Bringing an elderly N210 to life by
loading current firmware/fpga images
I am trying to bring an elderly N210 r2.0 with unknown history
to life by loading current UHD firmware and fpga images from a
1Gigabit ethernet connection on an AMD 2950X, 3.4GHz, 2TB SSD PC
running Ubuntu 18.04 with UHD 3.14.0.HEAD-0-gd20a7ae2 software
but having difficulty.
Following instructions in “USRP Hardware Driver and USRP Manual:
USRP2 and N2x0 Series”:
My initial action was to load the “usrp_n210_r4_fpga.bit" file
into the N210 xc3sd3400a FPGA using a Xilinx Platform Cable USB
II JTAG programming cable from a Win7 PC running Xilinx ISE
iMPACT, which reported “Program Succeeded” for the action.
Ethernet LEDs on the N210 are variously lighted showing activity
on the connection port.
With the N210 connected to the Linux PC 1Gbps ethernet port,
issuing the following commands result in the responses shown in
the screenshot image below:
<Screenshot from 2019-05-08 08-46-52.png>
My (naive!) interpretation of the above responses is that the
FPGA may not actually have been programmed with the *.bit code
even though iMPACT reported success in programming. Can someone
assist me in understanding whether my interpretation is correct
or not and, most importantly, suggest what I might try next to
bring this N210 to life?
The “Please run:” suggestion results in the “Received invalid
reply 32 from device” error. It seems no matter what I try the
“Received invalid reply 32 from device” RuntimeError is reported
back when I try to load any new firmware/FPGA images.
Thanks!
Joe
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