Ettus E3XX Getting Started Guide
ANGRYVIPER Team
3.2
Vendor Software Setup
The platform that is expected to be used is the Ettus Research/National Instruments Universal Software Radio
Peripheral (USRP) E310 (or E3XX) SDR (
e.g.
e3xx). This OpenCPI-enabled platform provides the capability of
deploying hardware and software workers while using Xilinx’s 13.4 distribution of Linux.
The synthesizers and cross-compilers required to build HDL and RCC Workers for this Platform are installed by
following the instructions found in the
OpenCPI FPGA Vendor Tools Installation Guide
. This document assumes
that the user has installed the appropriate versions of Vivado and the Xilinx SDK.
3.3
Building Required Projects
The
core
,
assets
, and
bsp_e310
projects must be built
in a specific order
for this platform. This section outlines
how to build the relevant projects and provides the commands to do so.
For this document, the projects should be built as follows:
1. Build
core
for the
xilinx13_4
RCC Platform and the
e3xx
HDL Platform, but omit assemblies
2. Build
assets
for the
xilinx13_4
RCC Platform and the
e3xx
HDL Platform, but omit assemblies
3. Build the
bsp_e310
project for these same platforms
4. Build the
testbias
assembly from the
assets
project. This will be used later in this guide.
Once the HDL Platform is built in the BSP project, assemblies can be built for that HDL platform
$ cd /home/<user>/ocpi_projects/ && \
$ ocpidev build -d core --rcc-platform xilinx13_4 --hdl-platform e3xx --no-assemblies && \
$ ocpidev build -d assets --rcc-platform xilinx13_4 --hdl-platform e3xx --no-assemblies && \
$ ocpidev build -d bsp_e310 --rcc-platform xilinx13_4 --hdl-platform e3xx && \
$ ocpidev build -d assets hdl assembly testbias --hdl-platform e3xx;
Note: replace “
<user>
” with your username in the commands above.
Each of these build commands can also be performed via the ANGRYVIPER IDE as follows:
To perform this operation within the IDE:
1. Open the ANGRYVIPER Perspective
2. Select the asset from OpenCPI Project View
3. Import to AV Operations Panel using “
>
” button
4. Select the RCC and/or HDL platforms for the build (use
Ctrl
for multiple selection)
5. Click “Build”
See the ANGRYVIPER Team’s Getting Started Guide for additional information concerning the use of
ocpidev
and the ANGRYVIPER IDE to build OpenCPI assets.
3.4
Hardware Setup
•
Ettus USRP E3XX
It is expected that this SDR package includes a power supply, micro-USB to USB cable and standard SD card
(4GB or larger).
OpenCPI has been tested on the Ettus USRP E310.
The micro-USB serial port located on the back E310 labeled CONSOLE (Figure 2) can be used to access the
serial connection with the processor.
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