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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY


From: Farhad Abdolian
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Split-function implementation of 802.11g OFDM PHY and MAC on USRP2
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:44:53 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Folks,
I find this discussion interesting and would like to ask a few questions.
>I FIND THAT THE TWO FPGA IMAGES ARE DIFFERENT.
What do you mean by different? Do they behave different? Or you used a program to compare the binary data comparison between the 2 and this is what you are saying here?

Xilinx P&R tool as well as it's resource optimizer and mapper use special algorithm that creates a random path of data for each run, unless you hard code your blocks and force the MAP and P&R not to touch the blocks, the result of the 2 identical compilation will be different.

If there are any clocks in the whole design that is not included in the UCF file, then the MAP will try to find the best placement for it which in almost 99% of the cases when you start a new compile, is different than the one created earlier.

Xilinx supports partial re-configuration on some it's devices as it is described here: http://www.xilinx.com/tools/partial-reconfiguration.htm and that can help those who want to make sure that the differences between different version of the code/compiles are minimum, but this is not supported only by the Virtex family of devices and not the Spartan series.

Just my 2c!

BR,
Farhad



HOWEVER, when testing this, by building the same fpga image which is downloaded to usr/local/share/uhd/images/ by the Marcus's build-gnuradio-script,
I FIND THAT THE TWO FPGA IMAGES ARE DIFFERENT.

WHAT CAN BE THE REASONS THAT TWO FPGA IMAGES ARE DIFFERENT IF ONE IS USING THE SAME MAKEFILE?


Output for md5sum:
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address@hidden:/usr/local/share/uhd/images# md5sum usrp2_fpga.bin
4d47274d3255e5bbca6e68e8f0ee7c74  usrp2_fpga.bin

address@hidden:/home/nemanja/bin/uhd/fpga/usrp2/top/USRP2/build# md5sum u2_rev3.bin
d31cdcc7a1fecb3bc33bc7fbc4db2707  u2_rev3.bin
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ANYONE WITH SUGGESTIONS, PLEASE REPLY!


-Nemanja Trecakov




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