Hackathon results: working Rx

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Alexander Chemeris alexander.chemeris at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 22:44:20 UTC 2012


Andrew Karpenkov -- do you already have support for UmTRXv2 in the
FPGA code? If we get our units from customs by Fri I want to test them
during the weekend hackathon.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Alexander Chemeris
<alexander.chemeris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Some good news for today. We've had a small fairwaves hackathon here
> in Moscow and we've done a good progress in UmTRX development. I'm
> quite exhausted, thus in short:
>
> 1. A software issue has been fixed in PLL tuning code. It works
> reliably now. Previously it didn't correctly handle edge cases when
> the best VCOCAP value was at the end of a range.
> 2. A software issue has been fixed in automatic LMS calibration code.
> Turns out a process described in the datasheet is not complete - you
> have read FAQ, question 4.7 for an amendment.
> 3. Now we correctly select Rx input. You have to change _two_
> registers to do that - 0x75 and 0x25. This wasn't obvious from the
> brief reading of the manual.
> 4. A hardware bug was fixed - RF diversity switch required a bias to
> work correctly. Luckily we decided to move the switch from the main
> board to a frontend in the rev2 of UmTRX. So we don't have to re-make
> the UmTRX schematics.
>
> Huge thanks to Andrey Sviyazov ("RF guy"), Andrew Karpenkov ("FPGA
> guy") and Srdjan Milenkovic ("remote LimeMicro guy") for going through
> all the issues.
>
> Fixes for the code will be pushed to github in the next few days after
> I clean it up.
>
> PS Another good news is that we should have first UmTRXv2 units on
> hands in the next few days, when we get them from customs. Can't wait
> to put my hands on them.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Alexander Chemeris.
> CEO, Fairwaves LLC / ООО УмРадио
> http://fairwaves.ru



-- 
Regards,
Alexander Chemeris.
CEO, Fairwaves LLC / ООО УмРадио
http://fairwaves.ru




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