updating firmware in USRP

hi I am using NI USRP 2932 and the software that im trying it to connect is MATLAB ,so if anyone could tell me that how compatibility of "UHD drivers used in MATALB" is attained and obtained with that of "NI USRP 2932" device beacuse my MATLAB 2013a is not detecting this 2932 device(most likely beacuse of not update drivers). thankyou.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

UHD drivers only applies to daughterboards for Ettus devices.

The NI USRP 2932 is not an Ettus device and so is not supported by the USRP Support Package. The specification for the NI 2932 shows that the only provided driver with it is NI-USRP which is not one that MATLAB supports.

Updating your firmware will not help: you are using a device that is incompatible with that software support package.

[sameen murtaza]

hi I have recently searched on NI forum about the instrument driver of NI USRP and that information is attached in screen shot,it says that NI USRP supports ettus products with specific daughterboards,so if NI USRP supports some of the ettus daughterboards products and ettus in turn supporting the UHD drivers, will there still be an issue using MATLAB? second question is that the firmware images in NI USRP are shown in another screenshot so if I am using NI USRP 2932 device,what images for update I should be using if I want to go for MATLAB instead of LABview?? thankyou

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[Walter Roberson]

That documentation says that NI-USRP supports those Ettus daughterboards on those particular Ettus devices. That means that if you have software which can call upon the NI-USRP driver, then the NI-USRP driver can detect and communicate with those devices. However, MATLAB cannot communicate with the NI-USRP driver at this time.

Your NI USRP 2932 would need to be communicated with, and only the NI-USRP driver can communicate with it, but MATLAB cannot talk to that driver.

[sameen murtaza]

so is it an end road for me? I cannot use my device with anyother software other than LABVIEW? isn't there some way to make MATLAB compatible with my device like Installing UHD driver from ettus website?(UHD version that matches with MATLAB UHD version) please if there is any possible way for doing that do tell me. thankyou

[Walter Roberson]

You might be able to use loadlibrary() to call upon the NI-USRP driver to talk to the device. This will, however, not integrate with the USRP Support Package.