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UHD - Coding to the API
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.. contents:: Table of Contents
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Various API interfaces
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Low-Level: The device API
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A device is an abstraction for hardware that is connected to the host system.
For a USRP, this means that the motherboard and everything on it would be considered to be a "device".
The device API provides ways to:
* Discover devices that are physical connected to the host system.
* Create a device object for a particular physical device identified by address.
* Register a device driver into the discovery and factory sub-system.
* Streaming samples with metadata into and out of the device.
* Set and get properties on the device object.
See the documentation in *device.hpp* for reference.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
High-Level: The multi usrp
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Multi-USRP class provides a FAT interface to a single USRP with
one or more channels, or multiple USRPs in a homogeneous setup.
See the documentation in *usrp/multi_usrp.hpp* for reference.
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Integrating custom hardware
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Creators of custom hardware can create drivers that use the UHD API.
These drivers can be built as dynamically loadable modules that the UHD will load at runtime.
For a module to be loaded at runtime, it must be:
* found in the UHD_MODULE_PATH environment variable,
* installed into the <prefix>/share/uhd/modules directory,
* or installed into /usr/share/uhd/modules directory (unix only).
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Custom motherboard
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Create a new device driver when the driver in lib/usrp/
cannot support your custom FPGA or hardware modifications.
Make a copy of the relevant driver code in lib/usrp/, make mods, and rename the class.
The new device code should register itself into the discovery and factory system.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Custom daughterboard
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Use code from an existing daughterboard in lib/usrp/dboard/* as an example.
Your daughterboard code should subclass an rx dboard, rx dboard, or xcvr dboard;
and it should respond to calls to get and set properties.
The new daughterboard code should register itself into the dboard manager
with a unique rx and/or tx 16 bit identification number.
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