INSTALL.txt

Jonathon Pendlum
jon.pendlum@gmail.com

-- IMPORANT NOTES ABOUT FUTURE DEVELOPMENT --
During the 2013 Summer, I successfully completed a Google Summer of Code project on adding
FPGA Acceleration to GNU Radio with the Xilinx Zynq SoC. The Zynq SoC is a dual core ARM +
FPGA fabric device that can act as a single board computer with signifigant signal processing
capabilities, which especially interests the GNU Radio community.

The results from the GSoC project included:
  1) Built infrastructure (Linux kernel device driver, FPGA code) for the Zynq SoC to support 
     the implementation of FPGA accelerated blocks in GNU Radio
  2) Demonstrated the infrastructure capabilities with a FPGA accelerated FIR filter block 
     in GNU Radio

As an extension to that work, I will be porting CRUSH to the Zynq architecture. The resulting 
system will be quite exciting as it will combine CRUSH's low latency access to USRP sample data
with FPGA acceleration in GNU Radio on the Zynq SoC. This can spur algorithm research that
can take advantage of the system's heterogenous processing capabilities.

GSoC Project site:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/jpendlum/10001

GNU Radio Wiki on my Zynq work:
http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Zynq

Github pages with my source code:
https://github.com/jpendlum/GnuRadio_Zynq
https://github.com/jpendlum/gr-zynq
https://github.com/jpendlum/zynq-acp
https://github.com/jpendlum/user-peripheral-kmod
https://github.com/jpendlum/zynq-fir-filter-example



-- CRUSH Hardware Requirements --
- Ettus Research USRP N210 with WBX daughter card
- Xilinx ML605 Virtex 6 FPGA Development Board
- MICTOR 38 Pin Male to Male Cable*
- FMC to Mictor Custom PCB**

* This can be bought from Emulation Technology, Inc 
  http://www.emulation.com/catalog/off-the-shelf_solutions/mictor/mictor.cfm
  Part# MIC-38-CABLE-MM-18
** This is a custom designed PCB. The schematics, layout, and BOM are included for 
   PCB manufacturing and assembly. You can also try using Xilinx's FMC XM105 debug 
   card (http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/HW-FMC-XM105-G.htm), but
   the top level pin mappings will need to be changed to reflect the XM105's placement
   of the MICTOR cable I/O.