[hpsdr] OZy Speed Test

[Eric Blossom]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:21:23PM -0400, Philip Covington wrote:
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> 
> On 8/4/06, Philip Covington <p.covington at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If anyone wants to try the transfer speed test you need to load
> > fifo_test.rbf and run fifo_test.exe (both can be found in SVN).  The
> > OZYV1FW08042006-1.hex file should not be used with JANUS yet because I
> > set the FX2 clock speed back up to 48 MHz from 24 MHz.  If you do load
> > this firmware revision you'll notice that the FPGA upload times are
> > halved (as expected).
> >
> > 73 de Phil N8VB
> 
> Update:
> 
> With the new utility files and firmware in SVN (and on my website) you
> can now change the CPU speed on the fly via a vendor request.
> setCPU_12MHZ.bat, setCPU_24MHZ.bat, and setCPU_48MHZ.bat shows how to
> use the set_CPUSpeed.exe utility.
> 
> You can now use OZYV1FW08042006-1.hex, but just remember to set the
> CPU speed to the value you think you need.
> 
> 73 de Phil N8VB

Any particular reason you're not running it at 48 MHz all the time?
I know it burns more power, but is it that significant?

Eric K7GNU

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