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About tezuka_fw

tezuka (name referenced to pluto) aims to be Universal Zynq/AD9363 firmware builder for plutosdr board and other boards: PlutoSDR, Pluto+, AntSDR (e200), LibreSDR.

Target of tezuka firmware is to maximize features of the board and integrate interesting projects on multi-target boards.

New features

  • Frequencies extension : 47.5Mhz-6Ghz
  • Switch RX1/RX2 , TX1/TX2 seamlessly
  • Complex 8bit mode to extend streaming bandwidth with host (14Mhz stable bandwidth through usb, 45MHz through GbE network)
  • Audio gadget to be recognized as a soundcard (virtual cable not needed anymore)
  • SD boot support : easy update, no risk of flashing, high amount of memory
  • Include Maia-sdr transparently
  • Many other (need to be documented)

Why not Analog Device or firmware ?

ADI launch PlutoSDR as a learning platform and it is ! But since 2 years, updates are mainly focused on expensive phaser (around 2500 Euros) product https://wiki.analog.com/resources/eval/user-guides/circuits-from-the-lab/cn0566

Thus, official firmware updates are no longer focus on new features for SDR enthusiastic people.

Installing

Use one the method :

Configuring

A soon as firmware is updated, you could see a usb drive with parameters in config.txt (orginal parameters are described at (https://wiki.analog.com/university/tools/pluto/users/customizing)

Third party software which could use extra features

Other great SDR software could use soon new features (SDRConsole, SDRAngel...), stay tuned !

Calling for contribution

If you like this firmware you can help me maintaining it by

For developpers

Building from source (linux debian based)

Install once

git clone https://github.com/F5OEO/tezuka_fw
cd tezuka_fw
wget https://buildroot.org/downloads/buildroot-2024.08.tar.gz
tar -xvf buildroot-2024.08.tar.gz

Build

source sourceme.first
cd buildroot-2024.08
make pluto_maiasdr_defconfig && make

Result

All materials are in buildroot/output/images

Credits