Working on Windows

[SDR-Radio.com]

Can we try sdr-radio with bladeRF?

i installed the windows drivers....
i can use the test-async program fine...

but how can i use sdr-radio with it?

any help?

Not yet - I will test with a couple of other people before I make it available, I don't want to waste your time.

[on4bhm]

i would be glad to 'waste' my time for this goal !!

[SDR-Radio.com]

i would be glad to 'waste' my time for this goal !!

Not before I get the USB 3.0 working...

[dk5ras]

Hopefully you will not kill USB2.0 compatibility Here I can't get USB3.0 to work with the BladeRF, maybe this Intel controller is somehow strange, who knows?!

Ralph.

[bpadalino]

I believe Simon is also using an Intel controller and with Windows 8 on Microsoft's stack. I have tried Windows 8 with a Renesas controller and was not seeing the issues that Simon was, but it was not negotiating to Superspeed - just high speed. More investigation is required.

[dk5ras]

Up to now I blamed the virtualization, but with the windows package I have the same issuse. The only FX3 image that works for me is an older one, that I downloaded right after freeing my BladeRF out of customs prisoner The file is called latest.img, but I have no idea how to find out some version information. With the actual FX3 images I can't load the FPGA, not from within the virtual Linux, not from the Win8 command line tool, not with an USB2.0 cable, not with an USB3.0 cable. The BladeRF is recognized both from the OS and from the bladerf-cli, but loading the FPGA throws errors. I have to burn this latest.img with the Cypress tools to make my BladeRF work again.

Well, everything works just fine, gnuradio, gqrx, so I have no reason to complain, but anyway this is a bit strange!

Ralph.

[orangepeel]

Way Hey, got it to work. Don't use USB3 initially. Get the device out of Legacy mode using USB2 and the bladerf installer then revert back to USB3. GNURADIO is now on the cards running under Windows.

Anyone foresee any problems with this?

[SDR-Radio.com]

Way Hey, got it to work. Don't use USB3 initially. Get the device out of Legacy mode using USB2 and the bladerf installer then revert back to USB3. GNURADIO is now on the cards running under Windows.

Anyone foresee any problems with this?

What is your USB 3.0 controller?

[on4bhm]

i addmit, i was testing it on usb2.0

have to look were my belkin usb3.0 pcie controller is....

[SDR-Radio.com]

i addmit, i was testing it on usb2.0

have to look were my belkin usb3.0 pcie controller is....

OK,

Anyway no kits until I get my USB 3.0 support working, apart from anything else I need to test the FFT with the full 38.4 MHz sample rate.

[orangepeel]

I have a Renesas Electronics USB3 host controller on an expansion card from Transcend model TS-PDU3 if that helps

[SDR-Radio.com]

I have a Renesas Electronics USB3 host controller on an expansion card from Transcend model TS-PDU3 if that helps

Does it work with the bladeRF using Windows? If so, which version of Windows?

[orangepeel]

Windows 7

[SDR-Radio.com]

Windows 7

Thanks. I don't have USB 3.0 on my Windows 7 systems, when my Windows 7 system was sick I bought a new i7-4770 which came with W8. I repaired the W7 system (the NVidia card was crashed the hardware), this is now an emergency standby system.

Anyway, next week I hope to assist the boys from nuand and get W8 working with the bladeRF. I don't think CPU will be an issue at the maximum sample rates but it is possible, if so I'll look at using OpenCL / CUDA for the FFT.

[dk5ras]

In Linux CPU is definitely not an issue (i5 with gqrx and 30 MS/s has still some room to the top), so why should this differ under Windows?

Ralph.