Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD + USRP2: altering AD9510+AD9777 config settings

[Vladimir Negnevitsky]

Worked like a charm; thanks very much!

I've replaced the USRP2 DSP chain with a control loop for diode laser
stabilisation (the USRP2 has nice ADCs and DACs!); without going into
detail it consists of an FM generator and a coherent demodulator. I'm
controlling their parameters (carrier freq, mod freq, phase, gain,
etc) through the ZPU using settings registers, which are set to
reasonable values by the ZPU upon boot-up - now using the UHD drivers
I plan to write an app allowing host-based alteration of settings. To
do this I added a few methods to multi_usrp; now I'm writing a basic
app to use them.

Regards,

Vlad

On 10 March 2011 05:19, Nick Foster <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 23:16 +1100, Vladimir Negnevitsky wrote:
>> (Apologies for this repeat message; my original message didn't seem to
>> appear on the mailing list archive.)
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm writing a basic C++ UHD app to control some custom hardware on the
>> USRP2/N210; I'm using the multi_usrp class. I need the USRP2 to
>> continue sending out internally-generated data through the AD9777 DAC
>> even after my host app closes. Problem is, UHD seems to tell the
>> AD9777 to enter sleep mode at this point; is there any way to alter
>> this default behaviour short of modifying the UHD source?
>>
>> A broader question is how to control the initial configuration of the
>> AD9510 and AD9777 when the host connects to the USRP2. I understand
>> this is a bit low-level for the spirit of UHD, but please let this
>> newbie know if there's an elegant way to do this.
>
> It's all in host/lib/usrp/usrp2/codec_ctrl.cpp. Just comment out some
> stuff in the destructor. And on init, the setup is in the constructor.
> Can I ask what you're up to with the custom settings?
>
> --n
>
>>
>> Another option would be disabling host-based modification of the
>> AD9510 and AD9777 settings entirely; I've modified the ZPU firmware to
>> configure them upon boot-up so I don't really need it (though it may
>> be useful to keep).
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Vlad
>>
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