Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Requirements for building USRP2 FPGA firmware on Ubuntu 10.04

[Ian Buckley]

Just to expand on Matt's answer a little. ISE 12.2 and ISE 12.3 are also known 
to work to build the USRP2 UHD FPGA image. I haven't tried ISE12.4 yet.
-Ian

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> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:20:13 -0800
> From: Matt Ettus <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Requirements for building USRP2 FPGA
>       firmware        on      Ubuntu 10.04
> To: Elvis Dowson <address@hidden>
> Cc: GNU Radio Discussion Group <address@hidden>
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> On 02/12/2011 12:03 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote:
>> Hi, I know its been discussed many times, it's a bit confusing as to
>> the exact versions of the tools that are required for building USRP2
>> FPGA firmware, for use with the UHD driver on Ubuntu 10.04. The
>> README file in the uhd git repo for the fpga folder doesn't list this
>> information.
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> I think there is a terminology issue here.  The FPGA image is built by
> ISE.  The firmware is built by gcc.  I assume you mean the FPGA image.
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>> Question 01: Which version of ISE is know to work with the UHD driver
>> and GNU Radio 3.3.1 master branch?
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> This is where you are going wrong.  UHD is not a part of GNU Radio 3.3.1.
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> If you want to use UHD, you need the GNU Radio next branch.  In that
> case you must use ISE 12.1.
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>> Question 02: What is the build command and what options should I use
>> to build the USRP2 UHD FPGA firmware image?
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> Go into the u2_rev3 directory and type "make bin"
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> Matt
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