Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] What does the EEPROM do on rfx board?

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 02:48:31PM +0800, hanwen wrote:
> Hi, everone,
> I am modifying some rfx2400 boards for clock sync and phase coherent with
> motherboard. I found this was achieved already when I changed the location
> of some resistors. I send some signals and received with the same board, the
> received signal constellation is not rotating. So, I think the clock is
> successfully syncronized.
> But I didn't burn the eeprom, so I want to know what does the burned eeprom
> do?

The eeprom contains the daughterboard ID.  The host library uses this
to customize its behavior as f(dbid).

> I saw there are several version of eeprom fireware, rfx2400_tx,
> rfx2400_mimo_a, rfx2400_mimo_b, what is the difference with mimo_a and
> mimo_b?
> 
> Thanks.
> hanwen

Eric