WARP: Wireless Open-Access Research Platform

WARP Repository

• Read the WARP open-access license
• Read more about repository access
• Browse the repository

Support Resources

• ​WARP forums
• ​WARP users mailing list
• Xilinx Documentation

Documentation

• Hardware Users Guides
• Software Users Guides
• Frequently Asked Questions

Lab Exercises

• Introduction to the WARP FPGA Board
• Introduction to Xilinx Platform Studio

Reference Designs

• Wireless Reference Designs? - Collection of full wireless designs
• Interrupt Reference Design - This reference design show how to correctly configure and use interrupts with the interrupt controller.
• Xilkernel Reference Designs - Collection of xilkernel designs
• MGT Reference Design - Demonstration of UDP communication over the WARP FPGA Board's multi-gigabit transceivers (MGTs)
• ​SystemACE Reference Designs - Collection of reference designs for using the SystemACE CompactFlash for FPGA configuration

Research Applications

• OFDM Physical Layers - FPGA implementations of OFDM transceivers
• SISO Automatic Gain Control? - Implementations of SISO-AGC
• Medium Access Control - Implementations of MAC layers

Platform Support Packages

• The WARP EDK Installer Project - An up-to-date binary for installing the WARP EDK repository, sysgen2opb tool and the WARP OPB Export Tool.
• WARP FPGA Board XBD? - WARP FPGA Board description file for Xilinx Platform Studio
• sysgen2opb - Matlab script to convert System Generator hardware co-simulation models into OPB peripherals
• Custom Peripherals
  • Radio Controller - core and driver for controlling the WARP radio board
  • Radio Bridge - core used to interface the radio controller to the underlying hardware
  • EEPROM - core used to access the EEPROM devices located on the WARP FPGA and WARP radio boards.

Hardware Designs

• FPGA Board
• Radio Board
• Analog Board
• Video Board
• Daughtercard Specification

Papers & Presentations

• A Flexible Framework for Wireless Medium Access Protocols - Hunter, Camp, Murphy, Sabharwal, Dick
• A High Throughput Beamforming Architecture for MIMO Systems - Duarte, Sabharwal, Dick, Rao
• Design of WARP: a Wireless Open-Access Research Platform - Murphy, Sabharwal, Aazhang
• FPGA Implementation of Dynamic Threshold Sphere Detection for MIMO Systems - Amiri, Cavallaro
• WARP, a Unified Wireless Network Testbed for Education and Research - Amiri, Sun, Murphy, Hunter, Cavallaro, Sabharwal
• For additional documents, see ​CMC Documents Database