You might be best off reverting to a UHD old enough to support the bitfile currently loaded on your N210. You could then bootstrap your N210 by using the old UHD to load a newer FPGA image.
Otherwise, it's fairly simple to convert the binfiles (which still exist -- usrp_n210_r2_fpga.bin) to bitfiles. You can take the header from usrp_n210_r3_fpga.bit and just stick it onto the front of usrp_n210_r2_fpga.bin, and call the output usrp_n210_r2_fpga.bit. The header is everything up until FF FF FF FF AA 99 55 66. Lastly, the source is all there, so building using ISE should still be possible. Nick On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 9:57 AM Joe Martin via USRP-users < usrp-users@lists.ettus.com> wrote: > Wow, okay; that’s disheartening. Thanks much for the info, Jason. Nope, > the Rev3 bit file doesn’t work; tried it. I’ll see if the support email > adr can be of use. > > Joe > > On May 8, 2019, at 10:44 AM, Jason Matusiak <ja...@gardettoengineering.com> > wrote: > > Joe, I think you might be SOL. If you take a look at this thread from me > last year, I had no luck: > http://lists.ettus.com/pipermail/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com/2018-April/056223.html > > > Also, when I pinged Ettus directly, here is some info I got back from them > (from two different emails in the thread): > "we've been having some trouble tracking down Rev2 bitfiles, because no > one here was around when that was built. If you're trying to unbrick > them, Rev3 bitfiles might be OK, but I'm not completely sure. > > supp...@ettus.com might know more by know. > really sorry, but those Rev2s are just so old. And all the people from > that era seem to be gone. Sorry, can't help you with those Rev2s." > > ------------------------------ > *From:* USRP-users <usrp-users-boun...@lists.ettus.com> on behalf of Joe > Martin via USRP-users <usrp-users@lists.ettus.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 8, 2019 11:55 AM > *To:* Joe Martin via USRP-users > *Subject:* [USRP-users] Bringing an elderly N210 to life by loading > current firmware/fpga images > > I am trying to bring an elderly N210 r2.0 with unknown history to life by > loading current UHD firmware and fpga images from a 1Gigabit ethernet > connection on an AMD 2950X, 3.4GHz, 2TB SSD PC running Ubuntu 18.04 with > UHD 3.14.0.HEAD-0-gd20a7ae2 software but having difficulty. > > Following instructions in “USRP Hardware Driver and USRP Manual: USRP2 and > N2x0 Series”: > > My initial action was to load the “usrp_n210_r4_fpga.bit" file into the > N210 xc3sd3400a FPGA using a Xilinx Platform Cable USB II JTAG programming > cable from a Win7 PC running Xilinx ISE iMPACT, which reported “Program > Succeeded” for the action. Ethernet LEDs on the N210 are variously lighted > showing activity on the connection port. > > With the N210 connected to the Linux PC 1Gbps ethernet port, issuing the > following commands result in the responses shown in the screenshot image > below: > > <Screenshot from 2019-05-08 08-46-52.png> > > My (naive!) interpretation of the above responses is that the FPGA may not > actually have been programmed with the *.bit code even though iMPACT > reported success in programming. Can someone assist me in understanding > whether my interpretation is correct or not and, most importantly, suggest > what I might try next to bring this N210 to life? > > The “Please run:” suggestion results in the “Received invalid reply 32 > from device” error. It seems no matter what I try the “Received invalid > reply 32 from device” RuntimeError is reported back when I try to load any > new firmware/FPGA images. > > Thanks! > > Joe > > > _______________________________________________ > USRP-users mailing list > USRP-users@lists.ettus.com > http://lists.ettus.com/mailman/listinfo/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com >
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