Just received my LimeSDR-USB from Crowd Supply.
Unfortunately, the board doesn’t work, every time I tried to connect to the board through LimeSuit on Windows, it gives me “Read (64 bytes) error” and GW version 0.0, at the same time I can see the FX3 LED blinking red every 1 second or so.
I’ve tried both USB3.0 and 2.0 on 3 different PCs, and reprogramed the board multiple times but get no luck.
Zack mentioned the power supply issue in another thread, but I don’t think it’s the case since I was using a bench supply to power the board, the current draw is around 450mA @ 9V.
Has anyone encountered this problem before? Or is this just a defective HW?
Yeah, I tried but didn’t help.
I can see the device called “Myriad-RF LimeSDR-USB” shows up normally, the link between PC and FX3 should be fine. Also, FPGA1 LED is blinking red so I believe the GW is loaded from EEPROM as well.
If you are able to reprogram the LimeSDR-USB, I recommend reverting back to LimeSuite 18.04 (around 4 June 2018), because that version plays nice with USB 2.0.
I have read some people had issues with Windows 10.
I was able to successfully install the Cypress drivers for FX3 on Windows 7 and read/write to the LimeSDR-USB. Also, I was able to read/write to the LimeSDR-USB in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Just tried LimeSuite 18.04 (LimeSuiteGUI_20180406_d6bc28.exe from this page index - powered by h5ai v0.29.1 (https://larsjung.de/h5ai/))
It can program the board successfully, this is expected, but I still get the same error when I connect to the board:
[13:43:43] WARNING: Gateware version mismatch!
Expected gateware version 2, revision 16
But found version 0, revision 0
Follow the FW and FPGA upgrade instructions: Lime Suite - Myriad-RF Wiki
Or run update on the command line: LimeUtil --update
I don’t understand why you say that the board was programmed successfully, because that print out indicates that you have not run LimeUtil --update with LimeSuite 18.04.
As I mentioned in the title, the GW version is not recognizable (always 0.0 even I flashed the EEPROM multiply times, both automatically and manually), I got the same issue on a Windows7 machine so I don’t believe it’s OS related.
Thank you for your help anyway, I will request an exchange and see if there is any difference.
With the Lime connected, go to CMD (Command Line) and copy/paste the command surrounded by asterisks.
This should update the firmware/gateware & you should be off to the races.
I just tried to warm up the FX3 chip by using a rework station, and the board starts to work! It fails again after cool down though, but now I can confirm the issue is temperature related.
hmmm my lime makes the same problems … always shows gateware 0 (even after a longer warm up time) …
i tried with two different pc (win7 and win10) on usb 2 and usb3
last thing i could try is external power source (12v)
. should i also try to carefully warm it up a bit and try if that helps?!? … if yes … then maybe i also have a device with a bad solder spot?!? … should i ask for an rma also?!?
greetz dg9bfc sigi
Andrew, I appear to be having the same heat related issue. Above 60F it works fine, below I see all the R/W failures. Everything has been fine up until the last couple of weeks. Has there been any solution proposed, and if not is an RMA option available? I use the Lime in a Radio Astronomy application, so temp swings are hard to avoid.
