[hpsdr] Updating an old HPSDR board set

[Stephen West-Fisher]

I've never had to use HPSDRProgrammer or HPSDRBootloader so someone else
will need to respond to that. I've built both Penelope and Mercury using
unprogrammed chips and have just used the USBBlaster method for
loading/updating code with no problem. Since you have done that, I would
stick with what works.

Since you have Ozy I wouldn't bother with Metis, I just have Ozy myself.
There may be some advantages to Metis, but since you are just diving back in
I'd get everything up and running with Ozy first.

Joe's answer should get you going with specific versions and stuff, he
really helped me out a lot getting my Mercury debugged and up and running.
Even created some custom firmware to help with figuring out the problem. 

--
Stephen West-Fisher
N4IK


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org] On Behalf Of Dale Boresz
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 7:58 AM
To: hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Updating an old HPSDR board set

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Thanks for the information Stephen.

In looking at the HPSDR Downloads page on openhpsdr.org, near the top of the
page I see a reference to "Winpcap" library. Further down the page, there is
a reference to HPSDRProgrammer_V2, and a little further there is
HPSDRBootloader.

Where does "Wincap" fit into the picture? Are these multiple mutually
exclusive paths to programming the cards? Are they dependent upon whether
Metis is involved or not?

You mention Quartus and USBBlaster, and earlier versions of those were what
I had used back in 2009/2010. If that's still the proper path - great; at
least I'm familiar with it ;-)

Not quite sure where to begin, and what works with what...

73, Dale
WA8SRA


On 2/25/2013 7:33 AM, Stephen West-Fisher wrote:
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> I'm using PowerSDR 2.2.9, I do believe there is a newer version out.
> Ozy: 2.4
> Mercury: 3.3
> Penelope: 1.7
>
> What I would do is get current versions of PowerSDR, USBBlaster, and 
> the Quartus 12.1 for programming.
> The readme in USBBlaster has the instructions for updating the boards, 
> the board to be updated next to the power supply plug with Ozy next to it.
>
> This is all fairly fresh to me as I just finished building and 
> debugging (with a lot of help from Joe) Mercury.
> My plan is to use some birthday money to buy the Alex boards and build 
> them next.
>
> --
> Stephen West-Fisher
> N4IK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org 
> [mailto:hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org] On Behalf Of Dale Boresz
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 6:43 AM
> To: hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
> Subject: [hpsdr] Updating an old HPSDR board set
>
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>
> Hello,
>
> Due to a lack of free time, my HPSDR Mercury, Penelope, and Ozy 
> hardware has been sitting in a drawer since early 2010. I finally have 
> a little more time to play now, so I fired everything up yesterday -- and
it still works!
> However, I suspect that a few changes and enhancements have been made 
> since January 2010
>
> Here's what I currently have running:
> -- PowerSDR v1.10.4 + BaseSVN 2025
> -- Under the PowerSDR > Setup > HPSDR tab, the firmware versions are 
> reported as:
>       Ozy FX2: 20090524
>       Ozy: 16
>       Mercury: 27
>       Penelope: 12
>
> The programming environment I have on this machine from back then is:
> c:\altera > 81 > qprogrammer
>
> There is also the following directory:
> EEPROM_BLASTER, which contains a README.txt dated 21 Nov 2009, which 
> is what I referenced the last time the firmware was updated.
>
>   From what I've seen on the openhpsdr.org site, I suspect I'm going 
> to want to get my hands on Metis and Excalibur cards as well, if possible.
>
> Can anyone pass along a link to a reasonably up-to-date documentation 
> source that would address what is needed to get these modules updated 
> to the latest code in a Windows enviroment (either XP or Win7 64-bit)? 
> I see that the 'Downloads' page on openhpsdr.org seems to have current 
> information, however I haven't seen anything describing the process 
> involved in updating the firmware. For example, I remember back then 
> that the physical ordering of the cards on the backplane was 
> significant. If the only answer is to start clicking links and reading
> -- that's what I'll do. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a 
> consolidated set of instructions that might save some time.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> 73, Dale
> WA8SRA
>
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