LIMEUTIL(1)

✨ LimeUtil ✨

User Commands 💅

📖 NAME

LimeUtil - control and update LMS7 based transceiver devices 💖

🧚 SYNOPSIS

LimeUtil [OPTIONS]

🌸 DESCRIPTION

okay so LimeUtil is your go-to for checking out LMS7 based transceiver devices, like the LimeSDR ✨. It can show info about them, update the firmware, and calibrate the device too. main character energy 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --help — pulls up a help message for you, bestie 🫶
• --info — shows info about LimeSuite and any devices it finds 🔥
• --find[="SPEC"] — discovers available devices. Give it a SPEC and it only shows the ones that match 🦋. If nothing matches, it exits with exit status 1 💀
• --make[="SPEC"] — creates a device instance 🧚

💜 Advanced options 💜

• --args[="ARGS"] — hands ARGS over to the --update, --fpga and --fw options 🌈
• --update — downloads the latest firmware and programs it into the device flash memory ✨
• --fpga="FILE" — programs the FPGA firmware image in FILE into device flash memory 🍓
• --fw="FILE" — programs the FX3 firmware image in FILE into device flash memory 💅
• --timing — times interfaces and operations 🫧

🌈 Calibrations sweep 🌈

• --cal[="ARGS"] — calibrates the device. ARGS is how you pick and configure it 🎯
• --start=FREQ — starts the calibration sweep at frequency FREQ Hz 🚀
• --stop=EQ — stops the calibration sweep at frequency FREQ Hz 🛑

heads up bestie 🙈 the original page really spells this one --stop=EQ, so type it exactly like that. Don't "fix" it!

• --step=STEP — steps the frequency during the sweep by STEP Hz (default 1 MHz) 🐾
• --bw=BW — sets calibration bandwidth to BW Hz (default 30 MHz) 🌊
• --dir=DIR — sets calibration direction to DIR, which is one of RX, TX or BOTH (default is BOTH) 🔁
• --chans=CHANNELS — sets calibration channels to CHANNELS, which is one of 0, 1 or ALL (default is ALL) 📡

🏡 HOMEPAGE 🏡

LimeUtil is part of the Lime Suite 🍓

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

LimeSuiteGUI(1) — the GUI sibling, iykyk 👑

Lime Suite · 2017-09-18 · LIMEUTIL(1) 🦋 love you, mwah 💖