Sounds great. I'll give it a shot and report the result later.

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Tom Rondeau <trondeau1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Tuan (Johnny) Ta <ta.tu...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> A lot of people seem to have problem with the OFDM receiver in gnuradio.
>> Since there's no confirmation of a working *2-way* communication using
>> OFDM yet, I've decided to dig into the OFDM receiver implementation. I want
>> to test the performance of the OFDM synchronization block. To do that, first
>> I want to isolate the ofdm_sync block and make sure the rest of the chain
>> works.
>>
>> I found that there is a test file for OFDM mod and demod, named
>> ofdm_mod_demod_test.py, without invoking OFDM synchronization, FFT, preamble
>> and cyclic. However, that code is outdated and not applicable for the
>> current implementation.
>>
>> I'm trying to generate similar test code for the current version of OFDM
>> mod and demod but there seems to be no straight-forward way. It used to be
>> that we can hook the ofdm_mapper straight into an ofdm_frame_sink. It's no
>> long the case as the frame_sink now requires a 2nd input, which is a stream
>> of bytes signaling the beginning of a symbol. This input is provided by
>> ofdm_frame_acquisition, which in turn requires the signaling from the
>> ofdm_sampler. The ofdm_sampler gets the signaling from the ofdm_sync x_x.
>>
>> Long story short, I haven't found a way to test the system while bypassing
>> the ofdm_sync block yet. Can anyone give me some suggestion?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Johnny
>>
>
> Johnny,
> Try using the "fixed" version of the ofdm_sync block found on line 96 of
> ofdm_receiver.py. This takes information about what you expect the timing
> and frequency offset to be and does nothing but use that to trigger the
> follow-on components. It was made for doing exactly the kind of things you
> are looking at doing.
>
> Tom
>
>
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