AirStack 0.5.4 Released

Julian Kemmerer
April 12, 2022   

Julian Kemmerer – FPGA Person

The Deepwave Digital team is happy to announce the release of AirStack 0.5.4, a minor release that resolves bugs, enables new functionality, and increases performance. This upgrade may be performed in minutes without re-imaging the AIR-T system.

New Features

  • Improved performance when transmitting data using smaller buffer sizes.
  • Additional informational from the RF transceiver is logged.
  • Airstack API can now report hardware master clock rates.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed inconsistent behavior seen for certain transmit and receive sample rates on AIR-T models 7201 and 8201.
  • Corrected total gain in transmit and receive paths on AIR-T models 7201 and 8201.
  • Fixed bug relating to smaller buffer transfers and SoapySDR reported timeouts.
  • Eliminated spurious warnings when using GNU Radio Companion flowgraphs.

Download

The AIR-T upgraded software and firmware are available for customers to download in the Developer Portal (login required).

Please note that upgrading to AirStack 0.5.4 from versions 0.5.0 and later does not require a complete re-flash of the AIR-T. However, upgrading from earlier releases does require a re-flash. Please see the associated installation procedures for further details.