Use Xilinx ZCU board as USRP X410

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Here is a &#;stackoverflow&#; forum for a typical 104 USRD port ; not sure if that helps:

Not sure if this is the same customer or not .

Quite an open ended question; in the interest of keeping this short I will try and address some cliff notes.

ZCU in general can be any platform from AMD/Xilinx, from the simple ZCU102, 104, 106&#;.to the behemoth ZCU670 which comes with hardened RFSoC. And really any daughter board with say FMC, PMOD, or typical interface will connect.

That is the short answer. But when it comes to USRP open source, you can certainly upload a bit stream and configure the FPGA fabric however you want, as long as you can meet timing it will work; this is barring any issues you may have with physical connections for higher speed RF, where you may need to special considerations to avoid signal loss.

USRP is open source and developed from an NI company, so if using AMD products, you may need to use VITIS, and as long as you do not need SYS GEN aka DSP functionality, you may be able to use the free web pack version of VIVADO which inherently gets you access to VITIS allowing for things like Python use and such.

The drawback to using the full blown RFSoC features via ZCU670 is the price; EK-U1-ZCU670-V2-G (or EK-U1-ZCU111-G) which is about 14k (11k) USD. Which is probably more suited for those building out a robust wireless base stations, than the typical USRD users are intending. Whereas EK-U1-ZCU106-G is sub 4k USD. Either way the ZCU platform is a bit spendy, but offers the ease of ARM use, with FPGA fabric for say USRD or something. Robert may be able to give you more specifics, when he arrives back in the office

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If you have more questions on the ZCU platform specifically or VIVADO/Vitis IDE, let me know.

On Thu, Sep 25, at 12:57 PM, Chris Albertson
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Many people are using other software with softrock hardware. However
I think most of that &#;other&#; software is Dttsp based rather then
gnuradio based. The
hardware is designed to be connected to a sound card and outputs
I and Q over a pair of analog outputs. So what ever software you use
it would not have to &#;talk&#; to the softrock, it would talk to your
computer&#;s audio subsystem. Connections to the SR are all
analog

Most of the &#;other&#; software definitely uses DttSP, either bare (on
Linux or
OS X) or inside PowerSDR (Windows). It does the job pretty well, if I
say so
myself, speaking as one of the authors, along with Bob McGwier, N4HY.
But
messing around on the inside is not for the faint-hearted and the
learning
curve is steep. The design is determined overwhelmingly by the need for
minimal latency in full-duplex, together with tight asynchronous control
of
the lowest-level parameters. It isn&#;t and wasn&#;t ever meant for
experimentation. You need to have a pretty clear idea of where you&#;re
going
before you ever lift the hood to change something.

If what you want is to get your fingers into the software, assemble your
own
soft radios, you definitely, positively, absolutely want to use GNU
Radio as
the software backend. That&#;s one of the things it&#;s for and it does the
job
wonderfully. Once you get the hang you can put together a new
application in
minutes. I myself am right now in the process of developing some new
features for DttSP and am prototyping them all in GNU Radio first.

A decent soundcard is a must, though.

Frank

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