UDPSDR-HF1 Receiver Front-end
User’s Manual
Version 1.1
– 16 September 2013
© Copyright 2013 Zephyr Engineering, Inc
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Page 1: ...UDPSDR HF1 Receiver Front end User s Manual Version 1 1 16 September 2013 Copyright 2013 Zephyr Engineering Inc Downloaded from Arrow com...
Page 2: ...FIGURATION FLASH ROM AND THE UFB 12 3 3 2 QS3A CREATING A USER FLASH BLOCK FILE 13 3 3 3 QS3B PROGRAMMING THE BEMICROSDK CONFIGURATION FLASH ROM 13 3 3 4 SIDEBAR HOW THE BEMICROSDK GETS ITS MAC AND IP...
Page 3: ...EC style edge connector plugs onto the gold finger edge connector on the end of the BeMicroSDK J1 connects digital data and power between the HF1 and the BeMicroSDK Note that the HF1 uses the BeMicroS...
Page 4: ...2 35mm x 0 7mm barrel plug CUI part PP 012 Digi Key part CP 012 ND J2 is provided for either a two pin SMT header TE part 3 647166 2 Digi Key part A113590 ND or just pads for soldering wire leads The...
Page 5: ...tional Plug headphones into J5 a 3 5mm stereo jack which connects to the on board audio DAC headphone amplifier Note The current FPGA code implementations send receive audio to the PC sound system rat...
Page 6: ...ps is required for SDRstickTM HF1 This connection is used for the receive data stream to a host PC or network switch 1 2 1 3 MEC Edge connector X701 The 80 contact MEC style edge connector plugs into...
Page 7: ...ickTM firmware shown in Table 1 See Figure 6 for user LED locations LED Function LED8 top lit on A D converter overload condition LED7 lit on FIFO overflow internal error condition LED6 off LED5 off L...
Page 8: ...s a power on reset The middle push button switch S503 labeled Reset is used to reset the FPGA logic and internal soft core CPU Note that this does not cause a reconfiguration it merely restarts the FP...
Page 9: ...n be read under FPGA firmware control SW1 1 and SW1 2 are not currently used by the FPGA firmware SW1 1 not used SW1 2 not used S502 Reconfiguration S503 FPGA Reset S504 not used Downloaded from Arrow...
Page 10: ...tenna to J4 c Connect Ethernet cable to host PC or network d Connect power and observe two flashing heartbeat LEDs on BeMicroSDK QS5 Install and Run GUI software on computer a One or more of GNURadio...
Page 11: ...ded in Quartus II Web Edition and Quartus II Programmer Enable BeMicroSDK USB power Windows required to program FPGA configuration SRAM or BeMicroSDK configuration flash memory SDRstick TM Programmer...
Page 12: ...me point you want to upgrade the firmware you will need to install the necessary components from Table 3 You can do this at any time as you need them To Do This You Need This Support Software Power HF...
Page 13: ...4 SDRstickTM Programmer SDRstickTM Programmer is a Windows application that you can download from svn sdrstick com Look in the sdrstick release directory under sdrstick programmer The SDRstickTM Prog...
Page 14: ...program code and the User Flash Block UFB Each of these sections is programmed from a FLASH format file Two of these files provide the functionality of the FPGA and are supplied by the factory The thi...
Page 15: ...flash ROM Click the Add button to add files to the Files to Program window Files can be added in any order A section of the ROM will only be programmed if the corresponding FLASH file appears in this...
Page 16: ...and power input 3 4 1 QS4b Antenna Connect an antenna to the J4 SMA connector Note that there is no bandpass filtering at the receiver front end Excessive voltage at the antenna jack can damage the re...
Page 17: ...svn sdrstick com in the sdrstick release software directory If you have followed all of the above steps when you run HDSDR an SDRstickTM network discovery dialog box will pop up showing the IP address...
Page 18: ...e sdrstick release software directory If you have followed the above steps when you run SDR an SDRstickTM network discovery dialog box will pop up showing the IP address of the SDRstickTM receiver tha...
Page 19: ...browser to the SDRstickTM web SVN server here http svn sdrstick com and download the file gr sdrstick sourceblock tar gz from the sdrstick release gnuradio sourceblock directory Extract the files for...
Page 20: ...s not installed Solution Install a current version of Java 4 3 Network cable not plugged in Symptom SDRstickTM discovery fails Cause Ethernet cable not connected between SDRstickTM and PC or network s...
Page 21: ...cated 5 Theory of Operation The next two sections describe the design of the UDPSDR HF1 in very basic terms 5 1 UDPSDR HF1 Front End Hardware The UDPSDR HF1 PCB block diagram is shown in Figure 10 The...
Page 22: ...and sent to the Ethernet MAC for transmission as UDP packets on the network UDPSDR HF1 14 bits 80 MSPS 1 25 MHz RF Bandw idth 50 NCO 14 CIC LPF 16 90 0 16 30 30 NIOS II ADC 10 100 MAC FIFO 32Mx16 MDDR...
Page 23: ...n standard SMA Power consumption 5VDC 400mA including BeMicroSDK Dimensions UDPSDR HF1 31mm x 65mm 1 2 W x 2 6 L Dimensions including BeMicroSDK 33mm x 185mm 1 3 W x 7 3 L Downloaded from Arrow com Do...
