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+########################################################################
+## Welcome to the USRP FPGA source code tree
+########################################################################
+
+usrp1/
+
+    Description: generation 1 products
+
+    Devices: USRP classic only
+
+    Tools: Quartus from Altera
+
+    Project file: usrp1/toplevel/usrp_std/
+
+usrp2/
+
+    Description: generation 2 products
+
+    Devices: USRP2, N2XX, B100, E1XX
+
+    Tools: ISE from Xilinx, GNU make
+
+    Build Instructions:
+        1) ensure that xtclsh is in the $PATH
+        2) cd usrp2/top/<project-directory>
+        3) make -f Makefile.<device> bin
+        4) bin file in build-<device>/*.bin
+
+    Customize the DSP:
+        Implement design in usrp2/custom/custom_*.v
+        Instructions are included in the module.