Hm, if you have to provide a uniform interface, but need to use different versions of UHD underneath: What about simply building two identical libraries that use the two necessary versions of UHD, and only runtime-link (plugin-style) either shared object at run time, depending on which USRP you need to talk to?
Best regards, Marcus On Mon, 2019-05-20 at 12:45 -1000, MASDR GS wrote: > Hi Marcus, > > Thank you for your response. Unfortunately our N300s have Rev H > motherboards so version 3.12 doesn't seem to be an option for us. > > Regarding our application, we have been using the E310s for our > waveform application development over the past few years and recently > received two new N300s to provide improved performance in network > mode. We are currently working with one license for a software > development tool that restricts us to network mode only due to > licensing restrictions. One of our project objectives is to develop > portable, hardware agnostic waveform applications so that we can > conceivably use our applications on various SDR platforms. Therefore > we'd like to have the flexibility to switch between both the e310 and > N300 for development purposes and demonstrate software portability. > Appreciate any suggestions/feedback on alternative options you may > have that would allow us to use both SDRs from one host machine. > > > > > > On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 8:34 AM Marcus Müller < > marcus.muel...@ettus.com> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Network mode on E310 was highly undesirable (reliable rates below > > 2MS/s) and not compatible with RFNoC, and hence has been disabled > > in > > recent versions of UHD. I've always considered Network Mode on the > > E310 > > to be a testing tool, not something you'd want to do for streaming, > > to > > be completely honest! > > > > The N300's network interfacing is fundamentally different and > > optimized > > for network streaming. The typical use case for the N300 would use > > one > > of the (up to 10Gb/s) SFP+ ports for network sample streaming, and > > the > > 1Gb/s RJ45 ethernet port to "talk" to the ARM host inside, for > > control. > > Versions of UHD supporting the N300 start at 3.12.0.0 (but only for > > hardware revisions up to motherboard revision G; you'll need > > 3.13.0.2 > > for that); starting with 3.13.0.0, there is no network mode on the > > E310. > > I'll be honest and say: while this sounds like you could be using > > 3.12.0.0 to run your E310 in network mode and still use your N300 > > (given it's not rev G or later), that would be a suboptimal > > solution > > considering the N3xx improvements that were introduced with 3.13. > > and > > 3.14.0.0. > > > > So, maybe you could elaborate on the application you're having for > > the > > E310 network mode in combination with N300? There might be an easy > > way > > around the obstacle you're encountering, but I don't really know > > what > > you're planning to do from here. > > > > Best regards, > > Marcus > > > > On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 12:53 -1000, MASDR GS via USRP-users wrote: > > > Would it be possible to run network mode on both E310 and N300 > > using > > > the latest UHD driver v3.14.0? > > > > > > The N300 requires v3.12.0 or greater to run host mode and I > > currently > > > have release-4 with a UHD version v3.9.2 on the E310. But the > > > condition to run network mode is that the UHD drivers of radio > > and > > > host machine must match. I couldn't find any information on how > > to > > > update the E310 UHD drivers directly, but I have tried creating a > > SDK > > > version using release-4 building UHD v3.14.0 but wasn't > > successful > > > running network mode with E310. Any suggestions or help would be > > > really appreciated. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > USRP-users mailing list > > > USRP-users@lists.ettus.com > > > > > http://lists.ettus.com/mailman/listinfo/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com > > _______________________________________________ USRP-users mailing list USRP-users@lists.ettus.com http://lists.ettus.com/mailman/listinfo/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com
