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Getting started with RFNoC X310

Table of Contents

  1. SDR Tutorials
    1. Working with USRP2 - Universal Software Radio Peripheral
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Set up
      4. Usage
      5. Capture waveform and record to file & add time-domain plot of waveform
      6. Troubleshooting
    1. Working with USRP X310
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources Utilized
      3. Set Up
        1. Imaging
        2. Accessing the Nodes
        3. Configuring the Network Interface
        4. Setting up GNU Radio
      4. Building the GNU Radio Flowgraphs
        1. Transmitter
        2. Receiver
      5. Running the Experiment
      6. Troubleshooting
        1. xterm Executable Not Found
        2. FPGA Compatibility Mismatch
    1. Simple radio example with GNURADIO benchmark scripts
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Set up
      4. Running GNU Radio benchmark scripts
      5. Outputs from transmitter and receiver
      6. Troubleshooting
    1. Simple radio example with GNURADIO benchmark scripts (OEDL)
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Set up
      4. Running OEDL script and viewing results
      5. OEDL script
    1. OFDM radio example with GNURADIO benchmark scripts
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Set up
      4. Running OEDL script
    1. Spectrum sensing with USRP2 and wiserd
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Set up
      4. Generate signal source file using octave
      5. Set up transmitting node
      6. Set up receiving node(s)
    1. Spectrum sensing with USRP2 and wiserd (OEDL and OML)
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Transmit predefined tone
      4. Record spectrum data to an OML file
      5. Performing the experiment using OEDL
    1. Transmitting wideband signals using USRP X310 and wiserd
      1. Description
      2. Transmitting a signal using wiserd
      3. Creating the signal
    1. Running DSC match script from the grid console
    1. Working with GNURadio and Nutaq ZeptoSDR
      1. Description
      2. Set up
      3. Run the GRC scripts
    1. Realtek 2832 EZCap - A Frugal SDR
      1. Prereqs
      2. A cheap spectrum analyzer
    1. MacSwitch (Obsolete)
      1. Prerequisites
      2. Start Mac Switch
    1. Zynq-based WISER platform - Start-up test
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Set up
      4. Loading the Zedboard
      5. Running a start up test
    1. Zynq-based WISER platform - Spectrum Sensing
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Set up
      4. Start spectrum sensing
    1. Zynq-based WISER platform - Spectrum sensing with multiple nodes (OEDL)
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Spectrum sensing with an OEDL script
    1. Zynq-based WISER platform - Building the Firmware
      1. Description
      2. Getting the FPGA source code
      3. Building the FPGA design
      4. Building ARM core software
    1. Nutaq - PicoSDR start-up and configuration
      1. Description
      2. Set up
      3. Launch demo scripts
    1. Multi channel sample collection with x310
      1. Description
      2. Set up
      3. Collect samples
    1. Getting started with RFNoC X310
      1. Description
      2. Set up
      3. Testing the installation
    1. Multi Channel Sample Processing & Visualization
      1. Hardware / software resources utilized
      2. Receive multi channel signal for processing and plotting
      3. Transmit a signal using a single usrp
    2. Plot the IQ Constellation of received signal
      1. Multi-channel Uhd STreamer (MUST)
      2. Description
      3. How it works (without going into the source-code :-D
      4. Source code & compilation
      5. Hardware interface application
      6. XML file
      7. Command server
      8. Usage Example
      9. Signal handler applications
      10. Tutorials
    1. Using two RFNoC streams simultaneously on a single USRP device
      1. Description
      2. Set Up
      3. Running the Simulation
    1. Using 2 transmit or 2 receive antennas simultaneously
      1. Description
      2. Set Up
      3. Running the Experiment
    1. Generate random transmissions emulating Primary Transmitters
      1. Description
      2. Set Up
      3. Running the Experiment
    1. RFNoC Spectrum Sensing
      1. Description
      2. Set Up
        1. Prepare Receive Node
        2. Prepare Receive USRPs
        3. Prepare Transmit Node
        4. Prepare Transmit USRP
        5. Set up SSH tunnel from your local port 5100 to grid.orbit-lab.org:5100
        6. Set up a web proxy for the receive node
      3. Run the experiment
    1. Full-Duplex Wireless using USRP N210
      1. Description
        1. Technical Report
        2. Updates
      2. Hardware / Software Resources Utilized
      3. Set Up
      4. Run the Experiments
      5. Example Experiment 1: A Real-Time Full-Duplex Radio with OFDM PHY (GNU …
      6. Example Experiment 2: A Simple Full-Duplex Radio Experiment (Terminal …
        1. In Terminal 1
          1. In Terminal 2 (SUB-20)
        2. A Secondary Transmitter Using Node13-8
        3. Acknowledgements
    1. LTE Traffic Trace Collection
      1. Description
      2. Setup OAI emulation framework
      3. Connecting UE to LTE network
      4. Connecting Multiple UEs
      5. Enabling OAI logging Module
      6. Application Design
      7. Running OAI using scripts
    1. Simple Radio Example with USRP X310 on ORBIT Sandbox 2
      1. Description
      2. Set Up
        1. Prepare the nodes
        2. Prepare network setup for USRP access
      3. Run the experiment
    1. Wideband Channel Sounding with USRP X310s
      1. Description
      2. Set Up
        1. Prepare Receive Node
        2. Prepare Receive USRPs
        3. Prepare Transmit Node
        4. Prepare Transmit USRP
        5. Set up SSH tunnel from your local port 5100 to grid.orbit-lab.org:5100
        6. Set up a web proxy for the receive node
      3. Run the experiment

Description

This tutorial is a guide for getting started with RFNoC using an USRP X310 on ORBIT grid. Before starting to experiment with RFNoC, here are a couple of useful presentations, write ups from Ettus Research, that one should go through.

​https://github.com/EttusResearch/uhd/wiki/RFNoC:-Getting-Started

​http://static1.squarespace.com/static/543ae9afe4b0c3b808d72acd/t/55ddc6d6e4b09069ee81e20c/1440597718379/3.+braun_pendlum--rfnoc+2015-08-26.pdf

​https://kb.ettus.com/Getting_Started_with_RFNoC_Development

Set up

  • Make a reservation on the ​Orbit Scheduler for using the grid.
  • Load baseline-rfnoc-labtools.ndz on an ORBIT node with USRP X310. 
    omf load -i baseline-rfnoc-labtools.ndz -t node18-20
  • Once imaging is done, turn the node on 
    omf tell -a on -t node18-20
  • Wait for the node to turn on and log in 
    ssh root@node18-20

Testing the installation

The image that was loaded, contains UHD rfnoc-devel branch installation as mentioned in the RFNoC getting started guide.

  • Run uhd_find_devices - you can see that the UHD version is shown as UHD_003.010.rfnoc-285-gb9765c42 
    root@node18-20:~# uhd_find_devices --args="addr=192.168.10.2"
linux; GNU C++ version 4.8.2; Boost_105400; UHD_003.010.rfnoc-285-gb9765c42

--------------------------------------------------
-- UHD Device 0
--------------------------------------------------
Device Address:
    type: x300
    addr: 192.168.10.2
    fpga: HGS
    name: hakuna matata
    serial: F4FD2A
    product: X310
  • Run uhd_usrp_probe. This might throw an error as shown below, as the X310 might contain a firmware build that is not compatible with the RFNoC UHD installation. 
    root@node18-20:~# uhd_usrp_probe --args="addr=192.168.10.2"
linux; GNU C++ version 4.8.2; Boost_105400; UHD_003.010.rfnoc-285-gb9765c42

-- X300 initialization sequence...
-- Determining maximum frame size... 8000 bytes.
-- Setup basic communication...
=========================================================
Warning:
Expected FPGA compatibility number 1000, but got 9:
The FPGA image on your device is not compatible with this host code build.
Download the appropriate FPGA images for this version of UHD.
Please run:

 "/usr/local/lib/uhd/utils/uhd_images_downloader.py"

Then burn a new image to the on-board flash storage of your
USRP X3xx device using the image loader utility. Use this command:

"/usr/local/bin/uhd_image_loader" --args="type=x300,addr=192.168.10.2"

For more information, refer to the UHD manual:

 http://files.ettus.com/manual/page_usrp_x3x0.html#x3x0_flash=========================================================
Error: RuntimeError: Expected firmware compatibility number 4.0, but got 3.0:
The firmware build is not compatible with the host code build.
Please run:

 "/usr/local/lib/uhd/utils/uhd_images_downloader.py"
  • In case of the above error, you can burn the appropriate FPGA image using uhd_image_loader as shown above, or using usrp_x3xx_fpga_jtag_programmer.sh found in uhd/tools.When the jtag programmer is used, the FPGA image is lost on power cycling. 
    root@node18-20:~/uhd/tools# ./usrp_x3xx_fpga_jtag_programmer.sh --fpga-path="/usr/local/share/uhd/images/usrp_x310_fpga_HGS.bit"
=======================================
 Copyright 2014 Ettus Research LLC

 JTAG Programming Tool
=======================================

==== Generating impact batch file 1eRfmtCb.impact.cmd...
==== Running impact -- loading /usr/local/share/uhd/images/usrp_x310_fpga_HGS.bit into the FPGA...
  • Now running uhd_usrp_probe should print out a lot of messages with this at the end : the list of RFNoC blocks in the current FPGA image. 
    -- ========== Full list of RFNoC blocks: ============
-- * 0/Radio_0
-- * 0/Radio_1
-- * 0/AddSub_0
-- * 0/FIR_0
-- * 0/FFT_0
-- * 0/Window_0
-- * 0/NullSrcSink_0
-- * 0/LogPwr_0
-- * 0/MovingAverage_0
-- * 0/VectorIIR_0
-- * 0/KeepOneInN_0
-- * 0/fosphor_0
-- * 0/FIFO_0
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