High Performance Software Defined Radio

An Open Source Design

Resource Information

Wiki:
http://hpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=HpsdrWiki:Community_Portal

Forum:
http://www.hamsdr.com/hamsdrforum/

Subversion (version control system):
Subversion (free) book - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
Subversion website - http://subversion.tigris.org/
TortoiseSVN client for Subversion - http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
URL for our project: svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_hpsdr/

Example Verilog Code from Phil Covington N8VB:
http://www.philcovington.com/FPGA/

Example Verilog Code from Bill Tracey KD5TFD:
http://www.tracey.org/wjt/sdr1k/Xylo/9850Control.zip

Verilog Tutorials and Resources:
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Teach/Verilog/
http://www.asic-world.com/verilog/veritut.html
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~thomas/VSLIDES.pdf
http://www.web-ee.com/primers/files/VlogIntro.pdf
http://www.doulos.com/knowhow/verilog_designers_guide/
http://www.sutherland-hdl.com/on-line_ref_guide/vlog_ref_top.html
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs141/resources/verilog-tutorial.pdf
http://www.doe.carleton.ca/~shams/97350/PetervrlK.pdf
http://www.veripool.com/
http://www.verilog.com/VerilogBNF.html

Other FPGA Resources:
http://www.opencores.org/
Architecture and Component Selection for SDR Applications

Other SDR Resources:
Microwave SDR - http://uwsdr.berlios.de/
GNU Radio - http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/index.html
GNU Radio Suggested Reading - http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/SuggestedReading

JTAG Programming:

  • Programmer: http://www.minford.ca Byteblaster knock off, works great (tnx Bob N4HY)
  • A TAPR kit is planned for a ByteBlaster MV according to Steve N7HPR. This will serve as a programmer for the Reflock II, and can be used for Altera FPGAs as well. (tnx Steve N7HPR)
  • If you go to eBay and search on Altera, you will see programmers pop up. One Canadian company sells a clone for about $30.00. (tnx Steve N7HPR)
  • Altera has their ByteBlaster JTAG programmer info available at http://www.altera.com/literature/lit-cables.jsp (tnx Ray WB6TPU)
  • A homebrew version of the Byteblaster cable http://www.min.at/OE1RIB/FPGA/ (tnx Ray WB6TPU)
  • Schematic of a parallel port JTAG cable that works with the Xilinx software: http://www.xilinx.com/support/programr/files/0380507.pdf (tnx Ray WB6TPU)
  • For Opensource JTAG programming software, (supports some Altera parts, not sure if it supports the parts currently under consideration) see http://openwince.sourceforge.net/jtag/ (tnx Ray WB6TPU)
  • There is a very readable explanation of how JTAG works, together with examples and sample code, fpga4fun.com (Xylo supplier) site. http://www.fpga4fun.com/JTAG.html For someone like me who is new to JTAG I found it very useful. (tnx Phil VK6APH)

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