Hi Michael,
Yes, I did.
I split my problem and created 3 blocks, where each single block is
responsible for a specific task.
The first block (type sync) looks for the preamble with correlation and add
a tag to the sample where correlation >= threshold.
The second block (type general) looks for the tag in the input stream and
discard all samples until the tag is found. Then the block forward a
specific amount of samples until it shut down the output and search for the
next tag in the input stream.
The third block (type decimator) get a fixed amount of samples (8000 due to
the Nyquist Shannon theorem), demodulate the data and puts out the result.
As the count of required samples is very high and the normalized cross
correlation need a lot of resources from the laptop I have to make a break
after every transmission to get the CPU usage down - but it works as
expected.
So at the moment I'm fine with my solution for my project
Kind regards,
Tobias
Am Mo., 16. Sept. 2019 um 00:47 Uhr schrieb Michael Dickens <
michael.dick...@ettus.com>:
> Hi Tobias - Did you make any progress with your issue? I'm wondering if
> you've thought about using the GR-provided preamble access blocks: prepend
> a preamble + embedded length on Tx, then correlate against the preamble &
> if found then decode the length & output a tagged stream with that many
> items. Maybe these would work & you wouldn't have to figure out how to do
> this yourself? Feel free to email me directly to discuss more. - MLD
>
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 4:05 AM Tobias Tepper via Discuss-gnuradio <
> discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello GNU Radio community,
>>
>> I'm trying to program a demodulation block for a variable pulse position
>> modulation with c++ and have a problem where nobody know how to solve it.
>>
>> At the moment it is a offline simulation and don't use USRP yet but this
>> is my final goal.
>> I already created a block (type interpolator) that gets a byte and
>> creates a 4-vppm symbol (containing 2 bits which mean there are 4 slots)
>> that contains out of 4000 samples. Depending of the byte value only 10
>> samples are 1 at the beginning of the respective slot (i.e. (1100
>> if byte is 0x00 or 1100 if byte is 0x02). For adding
>> the preamble sequence before the vppm symbol I use the "Stream Mux" block.
>>
>> Now the part of my problem:
>> On the receiver side I created a preamble detection block (type general)
>> which runs a cross-correlation and adds a tag to the stream if the preamble
>> was found.
>> First I used the block "Tagged Stream Align" but I found out that the
>> block only aligns the stream one time. So if i want to start a second
>> transmission the stream is not aligned again and I don't get the expected
>> output.
>> So my idea was to create a block (type general?) that search in the
>> incoming stream for the tag "preamble_match". If a tag is found than copy
>> 4000 samples beginning of the tag offset. It's possible that
>> ninput_items[0] is < 4000 so I have to get the remaining items with the
>> next call of the work-function. If I have 4000 items I want to start the
>> demodulation and the block should only output one value. All the other time
>> there should be no output of the block. I conected the block with a file
>> sink and observed that the block is putting out data all the time. So how
>> can I make sure that the block only put out a specific amout of data if a
>> condition is true and if the condition is false no data is put out?
>>
>> Please find below a stripped down version of the c++ code (and attached
>> as txt file) of my general work function:
>>
>> new_mode_vppm_demodulator_impl::general_work (int noutput_items,
>>gr_vector_int &ninput_items,
>>gr_vector_const_void_star &input_items,
>>gr_vector_void_star &output_items)
>> {
>> const float *in = (const float *) input_items[0];
>> unsigned char *out = (unsigned char *) output_items[0];
>>
>> // get the lowest count of items of the input and output buffer
>> int ninput_noutput_min = std::min(noutput_items, ninput_items[0]);
>>
>> // create a vector of type tag_t which can hold the tag
>> information of found tags
>> std::vector tags;
>>
>> // store the distance between the first sample in the input
>> buffer and the tag
>> int nitems_read_tag_delta = 0;
>> int tag_offset = 0;
>>
>> int ninput_items_tag_offset_delta = 0;
>>
>> if (d_tag_found)
>> {
>> std::cout << "Tag found before - get the remaining data" <<
>> std::endl;
>> // there was one tag already in the previous call of the
>> work-function
>> // copy the remaining data into the array
>> int tmp = d_read_counter;
>> for (int i = 0; i < ninput_items[0]; i++)
>> {
>> /* check if the iteration variabl
