[hpsdr] Mercury HW Build Rev

Joe Martin K5SO k5so at valornet.com
Fri Oct 14 22:47:49 PDT 2011


Yes.

73,  Joe K5SO


On Oct 14, 2011, at 11:28 PM, John Westmoreland wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> I was also asking about the current HW rev - what is the HW rev of  
> the board being sold by iQuadLabs?
>
> That is compatible with V3x of the code, correct?
>
> 73's,
> John
> AJ6BC
>
> On Oct 14, 2011 8:43 PM, "Joe Martin K5SO" <k5so at valornet.com> wrote:
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> Hi John,
>
> Actually, the firmware for Mercury is under active revision at the  
> moment.  You are correct that the latest official version on the SVN  
> is Mercury v3.0;  however, there is another, unofficial version from  
> W1BW, Mercury v3.0 that exists on the W1BW trunk for NRx.
>
> The primary difference between the two Merc v3.0 versions is that  
> the current official version does not support multiple-receivers-on- 
> a-single-Mercury board nor does it support multiple Mercury boards  
> whereas the unofficial version does support multiple-receivers-on-a- 
> single-Mercury board but it does not support multiple Mercury boards  
> properly nor does it have Alex interfacing.
>
> I am currently nearly finished with a new version (probably will be  
> officially released by Phil as Mercury v3.1 shortly) that supports  
> all of the latest Alex interfacing, multiple-receivers-on-a-single- 
> Mercury mode and multiple-Mercury boards.
>
> If you do not have a need presently for the multiple-receivers-on-a- 
> single-Mercury mode or multiple-Mercury boards mode then the current  
> Mercury v3.0 should work for you with a single Mercury board until  
> the newer, more general Mercury v3.1 is released.
>
> 73,  Joe K5SO
>
>
> On Oct 14, 2011, at 7:32 PM, John Westmoreland wrote:
>
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> Hello All,
>
> Can someone tell me what the current HW build rev is of Mercury?
>
> I see in SVN the current FPGA code is V3.
>
> 73's (at Pacificon),
> John Westmoreland
> AJ6BC
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