Hi Devin,

You wanted to ramp up/down the external PA: Use the GPIO pins, and the
ATR registers [1] or timed commands issued over the message bus [2] to
change their state

Best regards,
Marcus

[1] http://files.ettus.com/manual/page_gpio_api.html#xgpio_fpanel_atr
[2] http://gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/page_uhd.html#uhd_command_syntax
On 08/18/2015 09:17 PM, devin kelly wrote:
> Hello,
> 0
> I'm transmitting a fairly bursty, irregularly timed signal.  I attach
> a stream tag to the sample that has the start of the burst (tx_sob). 
> I also have a PA that I can turn on and off that's inbetween my USRP
> B210 and antenna.
>
> I'd like to be able to turn the PA on and off synchronously, say 50 ms
> before tx_sob is to be transmitted.  
>
> Is there any way to do this?  I'm thinking I could add a new tag
> that's 50 ms before my transmission but then how would I synchronously
> turn on the PA?  Is there something like a callback function I can
> use?  Does the UHD or the UHD block have this functionality?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Devin
>
>
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