Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] saturation with multi_fft.py

[Eric Blossom]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:41:06PM -0500, Jeff Brower wrote:
> Eric-
> 
> > Ok, I installed the latest Quartus II ver. 7.2 software onto a virtualized
> > WinXP guest hosted by a Linux x86_64 system running kvm/qemu.  I
> > downloaded a recent revision of gnuradio (revision 6595) onto the host.
> 
> This should work Ok, but let me comment that based on personal experience 
> FPGA tool
> software is some of the most fickle, easy-to-crash (/ hang up / produce 
> inconsistent
> results / etc) software out there.  If there is any little small thing wrong 
> with the
> virtualization, you could get an incorrect result, and it might be very hard 
> to pin
> down.  I would suggest to install Quartus on a WinXP machine, build USRP 
> logic to be
> sure it matches the defined results down to the last detail, and then compare 
> that
> with the Linux-hosted virtualization.

I don't think that's the problem.  
I run Quartus on a Win2K guest on VMware on Linux.

Eric