Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Exposing more JTAG functionallity in FX2 firmware

2008-03-31 Thread Brian Padalino
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, has there been any effort to expose more JTAG functionality via the FX2 so that the USRP FX2 firmware could be used with modified other JTAG software, like xc3sprog. As far as I can tell, not without some

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question: Setting Rx-A and RX-B Daughterboard on simultaneously

2008-03-28 Thread Brian Padalino
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Jason Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Is it possible to set both the Rx-A and the Rx-B (of the BASIC Rx daughterboard) to ON while at the same time allowing I and Q sampling? How will this be done? So a while ago, I tried to put together a little

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question: mpsk_receiver_cc

2008-03-28 Thread Brian Padalino
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Jason Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to ask how to use mpsk_receiver_cc. The C++ code for the implementation can be found here: http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/trunk/gnuradio-core/src/lib/general/gr_mpsk_receiver_cc.cc It looks

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Artwork

2008-03-27 Thread Brian Padalino
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Eric Blossom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC Arial == Helvetica. Not sure about Georgia. According to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(typeface) Georgia closely resembles Times New Roman. Brian

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] new 802.11b receiver

2008-03-24 Thread Brian Padalino
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Mohammad Hamed Firooz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As you may know, BBN guys have developed a receiver for 802.11b. But due to the USB limitation, they had to cut the spectrum which leads to low SNR. We have developed a new receiver by doing some operation

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] max recursion depth exceeded error

2008-03-06 Thread Brian Padalino
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 6:03 PM, W. David Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I got this error when connecting a file_descriptor source to an audio sink in a top_block. Any ideas what might have gone wrong? I am going to take a guess, but I believe you have exceeded your max recursion depth.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: new to GNU radio

2008-03-04 Thread Brian Padalino
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Manav Rohil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for the replies... So that means if i dont have a USRP, i cannot simulate a packet transmission/reception entirely in software since the data will never be modulated to the carrier frequency. No need for a USRP ...

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Fixed-Point Simulation Block

2008-03-04 Thread Brian Padalino
Would it be of any interest for the Verilog in the USRP to actually match bit-for-bit a simulation block that can be run on the host machine? Basically just float - integer - fixed-point up/down conversion filtering for the halfband FIR and/or CIC filters and the CORDIC that occurs? Just trying

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Running OFDM files

2008-02-27 Thread Brian Padalino
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Jose Emilio Gervilla Rega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, We are working in OFDM synchronization. When you install GNURadio, there are among the examples an OFDM system which runs perfectly. But we need to run other different files that we have found in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: design flow question

2008-02-27 Thread Brian Padalino
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! I just grabbed webpack and I'm trying it out. One thing you might like to know: In my initial testing, it's working on Fedora F8 x86_64. It doesn't want you to run on x86_64, but with a few minor hacks it's

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Running OFDM files

2008-02-27 Thread Brian Padalino
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Jose Emilio Gervilla Rega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I will give you more details about my problem because someone has asked me for them(thank you): The OFDM system we are using is which is defined in this link:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FIR filters and set_history()

2008-02-06 Thread Brian Padalino
On Feb 6, 2008 10:42 AM, Eric Blossom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The history mechanism does work as it was designed to do. For a history setting of N, it effectively preloads the first buffer with N-1 zeros. So just to be clear, if we have 2 calls to work() where we set the history to 5 taps

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] help generating frequency offset

2008-02-01 Thread Brian Padalino
On Feb 1, 2008 10:48 AM, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me step all the way back and just try to be a little clearer with what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to simulate the frequency offset added by the crystal oscillator in the USRP. 64MHz*20ppm/1e6=1280Hz max, +/- ? So, I'm

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bus widths and data rates

2008-01-30 Thread Brian Padalino
On Jan 30, 2008 9:35 AM, TomasOMaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been trying to understand the tx and rx data paths through the AD9862 and the FPGA (standard configuration). RX side: - The two ADCs of the AD9862 push data onto two 12 bit buses - After the FPGA MUX the 16

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Sample Rate

2008-01-28 Thread Brian Padalino
On Jan 28, 2008 10:43 AM, Richard Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been playing with a number of the examples - FM NB and WB receivers, AM receiver, etc. The sample rate appears to default to 64 MSPS, but I have been unable to find where that default rate is set. Where is it defined?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr.fft_vcc and FFTW

2008-01-23 Thread Brian Padalino
On Jan 23, 2008 7:50 AM, Vincenzo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, does gr.fft_vcc implement the FFTW algorithm? Looking here: http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/trunk/gnuradio-core/src/lib/general/gr_fft_vcc.cc#L89

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help with DSP Cores for USRP2

2008-01-21 Thread Brian Padalino
On Jan 17, 2008 2:42 PM, Matt Ettus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... 6 Testbenches for any of the above, even if you aren't designing the filter core itself. I have put my attempt at a decent testbench here: http://lebowski.eatcheese.biz/~bpadalino/halfband/ There are some

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question: gr_float_to_complex

2008-01-21 Thread Brian Padalino
On Jan 21, 2008 10:07 PM, Jason Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again! I have a question regarding the use of gr_float_to_complex block. Unfortunately, Doxygen didn't show the implementation of such a block. What I wanted to know is how gr_float_to_complex implements float to complex

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ISE Project navigator and ISE files

2008-01-17 Thread Brian Padalino
On Jan 17, 2008 12:55 PM, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you implement FIFOs, SDRAM controller, GbE MAC, etc? Using a 'non-Xilinx' method? I don't think there's any SDRAM on the new USRP2, but if there were, you can still write an SDRAM controller in RTL. DDR, on the other

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] in-band signaling dependent packets (i.e., ACK generation)

2008-01-13 Thread Brian Padalino
On Jan 12, 2008 6:01 PM, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would any of the FIR filters that already exist in GR be appropriate? I could then perform the cross-correlation on the output of the block. If you just give your known coefficients to the filter, then it really just performs

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] IQ on same or separate channels?

2007-12-15 Thread Brian Padalino
On Dec 14, 2007 12:51 PM, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taking a look at how the legacy code does it... http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/branches/developers/gnychis/inband/usrp/fpga/sdr_lib/rx_buffer.v#L137 What do you think about adopting this method? It's using a 16-bit

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] IQ on same or separate channels?

2007-12-15 Thread Brian Padalino
On Dec 14, 2007 2:54 PM, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shouldn't it always be interleaved complex? When is real used? I think single or vestigial sideband modulations use only the real component. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sideband_modulation Brian

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] IQ on same or separate channels?

2007-12-13 Thread Brian Padalino
On Dec 13, 2007 5:07 PM, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that definitely explains things and why my GMSK receiver can't decode a transmission ;) I just called Leo, he's on his way back to China for the break until mid-January. This is something I don't want to wait on, so I'm

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] tuning the BasicRX board

2007-12-10 Thread Brian Padalino
On Dec 10, 2007 3:26 PM, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In benchmark_rx.py, the samples are unmodified up to the channel filter, correct? All samples go through the FPGA's CORDIC and then through the CIC filter, possibly the halfband filter depending on your configuration. What phase

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] in-band signaling dependent packets (i.e., ACK generation)

2007-12-04 Thread Brian Padalino
On Dec 4, 2007 1:07 PM, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From some discussion on comp.dsp, it seems as though I'm looking for a matched filter: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.dsp/browse_thread/thread/f93d7867f74dbe95#0dc48f2a8ed09e07 Yes, you are describing a matched filter. If

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] in-band signaling dependent packets (i.e., ACK generation)

2007-12-04 Thread Brian Padalino
On Dec 4, 2007 2:00 PM, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see, I want to go lower than the PHY layer really... You can't go lower than the PHY layer. There's a reason it's the lowest on the stack. Here's the thing, I don't want the solution to be dependent on the physical layer. The

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Routing and Placing and Clock for FPGA !

2007-12-04 Thread Brian Padalino
On Dec 4, 2007 8:30 PM, Ronald Jetli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Needed to confirm a few things: 1) Is the global clock frequency for USRP 64Mhz ? Yes. It's a fully synchronous design with FIFO boundaries where it talks to the FX2 chip which runs at a different clock speed I believe. 2)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] in-band signaling dependent packets (i.e., ACK generation)

2007-12-04 Thread Brian Padalino
On Dec 4, 2007 8:43 PM, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So there is no way of getting a generalized matched filter on the USRP? Is there anything that can be done to get around the hardware multipliers? If there is absolutely no way, limiting to GMSK, PSK, and QAM is not that bad.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Discuss-gnuradio Digest, Vol 60, Issue 49

2007-12-02 Thread Brian Padalino
On Dec 2, 2007 7:38 AM, aamir zeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish to participate and contribute in the area od GNU Radio, But I could not get the clue from where shall I start May all your questions be answered here: http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki Brian

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: tx_chain - Verilog question

2007-11-30 Thread Brian Padalino
On Nov 30, 2007 5:01 PM, Ronald Jetli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I do understand that there are always statements in the base code and the flow of those base code is clear to me. It is just this top module, whose logic is not clear to me. I tried writing a test bench, but that didnt help

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Output of usrp_rx_cfile and Input of ATSC demodulator

2007-11-29 Thread Brian Padalino
On Nov 29, 2007 5:13 PM, Dan Halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wuest Brandon-WTVR47 wrote: I am having a problems with disk writing not being able to keep up with the high data rate, so I am trying to do a little manipulation of the IQ data

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] in-band signaling dependent packets (i.e., ACK generation)

2007-11-27 Thread Brian Padalino
A few questions: - What is the current round trip latency for the in-band code? - Have you tried synchronizing two different USRPs to each other over the air? - What is the minimum amount of turnaround time you're looking to achieve? Brian ___

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] in-band signaling dependent packets (i.e., ACK generation)

2007-11-27 Thread Brian Padalino
On Nov 27, 2007 10:43 PM, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To measure the round trip latency we used three USRPs... two in contention and a third monitoring. The two in contention would exchange the channel back and forth by reading the RSSI value from the incoming packets. To spare

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP FPGA resource utilization

2007-11-21 Thread Brian Padalino
On Nov 21, 2007 9:36 PM, C S Nagaraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I'm planning to use the DBSRX with USRP board. After the frequency translation and filtering I want to process the samples further inside the FPGA, before transferring it to the host. If you don't mind me asking, could

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP FPGA resource utilization

2007-11-21 Thread Brian Padalino
On Nov 21, 2007 10:24 PM, C S Nagaraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brian, Thanks for the reply. Well, I have to decide the actual processing what goes inside the FPGA based on the resource that will be left-over. To start with, I'll be using only 1RX to obtain the signal at a fixed

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Signal reconstruction

2007-11-10 Thread Brian Padalino
On Nov 10, 2007 9:39 AM, Aadil Volkwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I still have the problem with the reconstruction though. When I perform the FFT on the sample set, the plots are not as you would expect for a pure 250KHz signal? You're transmitting a 250kHz square source which is the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Calculate SNR

2007-11-09 Thread Brian Padalino
On 11/9/07, Meenaktchi Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was wondering how to calculate SNR. Is there function already a function that I can use to find SNR? If you know where your constellation symbols are, and you know where the IQ symbol really ended up after equalization -

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding the Data Structure for the USB transfer

2007-11-07 Thread Brian Padalino
On Nov 7, 2007 9:40 AM, Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, the last day I am banging my head against the problem how the data is structured for the USB transfer between the FX2 and the PC. Datasheet, FX2 reference and the web didn't givve me the right clue. What I understand: - the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Encoder Integration

2007-10-29 Thread Brian Padalino
On 10/29/07, Dan Halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order for SDRs that think of their FPGA code as software (which I think has to be where this is going to realize its full power), it seems likely that we will need completely automated and reasonably fast ways to rebuild the FPGA on the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Encoder Integration

2007-10-28 Thread Brian Padalino
Here are some of the thoughts running through my head in no particular order. You don't have to have the RRC filter for transmit if you don't want to. The CIC and the reconstruction filter of the DAC should take care of filtering out a good portion of the extra spectrum. To achieve the best

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Decimate by 2 possible?

2007-10-22 Thread Brian Padalino
On 10/22/07, Nirali Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using the TV_RX and USRP to capture the 64 Msps data from the A/D converter and send that to another downstream board for processing. I am connecting the signal from the ADC to the debug IO pins of the FPGA to get to the 16 io_rx[]

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: in-band signaling project overview

2007-10-12 Thread Brian Padalino
On 10/12/07, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the biggest concerns with Cyclone I are lack of multipliers and low amount of internal mem (26 kbyte for the EPC1C12). Understandable, but also remember that a CORDIC can perform a multiplication if you want it pipelined - and if you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Cygwin build success

2007-10-10 Thread Brian Padalino
On 10/10/07, Andrew Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In terms of publishing what I did, I was going to put my workarounds on the wiki, but I don't have an account, and I don't think I can make any modifications without one. It hasn't been mentioned in a while, but guest/gnuradio should work for a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] saturation with multi_fft.py

2007-10-10 Thread Brian Padalino
On 10/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you give me an example? I've never worked with verilog code before. Also- this fix you are proposing- is it a simple scaling of gain that would be independent of decimation? Because as you can see from the following figure, the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] saturation with multi_fft.py

2007-10-10 Thread Brian Padalino
On 10/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this seems logical, and if so then we've finally stumbled on the point of the matter. So what's the fix? Is it a simple matter of extending the definitions to other decimations in the file Brian cites? Either that or just do the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PS3 versus freedom

2007-10-09 Thread Brian Padalino
On 10/9/07, Robert McGwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... However, nothing about the gpl prohibits individuals from using xlc to generate binaries for their own use so long as they do not distribute the binary. ... This is more for curiosity than anything, but where do the USRP FPGA bit files

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] oprofile inband code results

2007-10-09 Thread Brian Padalino
As another naive note, since sincosf seems to be the dominating function by a large factor, this website might be worth a read: http://www.devmaster.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5784 I know there is a fast sine and cosine somewhere for filtering, but I also thought those caused some issues

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ATSC

2007-10-05 Thread Brian Padalino
On 10/5/07, Meiners, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone send me a zipped file of the gr-atsc directory in trunk? I have had zero luck getting svc to work properly. http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/Download Please note the FTP links of the released code. Thanks for your help. No

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem: Package fftw3f was not found in the pkg-config

2007-10-04 Thread Brian Padalino
On 10/4/07, Tomek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I´m new to GNU Radio. I´m working on a project now and trying to get it to compile. I´m using cygwin and followed the Installing GNU Radio with Cygwin instruction step-by-step. The only problem i hade on the way was with wxPython because

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC on OSX?

2007-10-03 Thread Brian Padalino
On 10/3/07, Michael Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it's the use of python 2.5? Has anyone (on this list, or if you know someone) ever used GRC on OSX? As I said, I've never tried to until this morning. This really isn't my forte, but a quick search and I saw this page:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Default FPGA I/O standard

2007-10-01 Thread Brian Padalino
On 10/1/07, Matt Ettus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think 3.3V LVTTL and LVCMOS are really the same. Matt According to this: http://www.interfacebus.com/voltage_LV_threshold.html They are, indeed, basically the same. Brian ___ Discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Newbie question: gnuradio configure with USRP

2007-09-26 Thread Brian Padalino
On 9/26/07, W. David Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have USRP board with RFX2400. The question is how GnuRadio should be configured/compiled to use USRP. Before this I configured/compiled 3.0.4 without USRP (using ./configure, make and make install). ./configure showed: The following

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RedHat Compatibility

2007-09-19 Thread Brian Padalino
On 9/19/07, Dominik Auras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Does anyone have experiences with GNU Radio and Red Hat Linux? Are there any known problems? The BuildGuide generally lists any issues or install procedures here: http://www.gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/BuildGuide Red Hat doesn't

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Changing interp rate dynamically?

2007-09-14 Thread Brian Padalino
On 9/14/07, Michael Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've created an analog repeater that's just: usrp source - amp - usrp sink and I'd like to control the bandwidth that's repeated dynamically ... on the fly via a GUI slider. I have created all of this, and on init everything works just

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Modules Verilog in FPGA

2007-09-13 Thread Brian Padalino
On 9/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, thank you for answers. I have seen Quartus II and but I don't manage to see with Quartus II the content of bigger modules, for example usrp_std. How do I do to see the content of these big modules, that is however these modules are

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] simple question

2007-09-13 Thread Brian Padalino
On 9/13/07, Luca Dionisi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I'm completely new in this list and in this project. Perhaps someone in this list knows and is willing to explain me... What's the difference between a access point and a wireless network card in a pc/laptop? I mean, is there a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Information FPGA

2007-09-12 Thread Brian Padalino
On 9/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am a student and I carry out a degree thesis about SDR in particular FPGA. I have seen some modules of FPGA but I haven't understood however these modules are interconnected between them. Could you give me any informations? If you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] VHDL / Verilog Combination.

2007-09-11 Thread Brian Padalino
On 9/11/07, S Mande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I scanned the Mailing List Archive and figured out that the code that goes inside USRP FPGA is Verilog code. I personally know VHDL and was looking to make some changes to the FPGA code. I was wondering if it is possible for the existing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP tuning

2007-09-07 Thread Brian Padalino
On 9/7/07, Justin Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have a misunderstanding regarding tuning the USRP. I have connected the TX-A directly to RX-A. I am plotting the FFT of both the transmitted and received signal. I have tuned RX to 0 Hertz so I expect the positive frequencies to look

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help needed with FPGA

2007-09-06 Thread Brian Padalino
Something you may want to try to do is focus on the TX side of things. RX is generally the harder part of radio communications, and probably wouldn't work out too well inside of an FPGA that is already pretty full. TX on the other hand is all just simple permutations, look up tables, and maybe

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about LFTX and RFTX

2007-08-30 Thread Brian Padalino
On 8/30/07, Ismail Mohamed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, Recently there has been talk about the I and Q components of the signal. I understand the analytic signal concept, also the implementation as shown on: http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/UsrpRfxDiagrams where it says, Right idea,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Recovering x(t) from IQ samples

2007-08-20 Thread Brian Padalino
On 8/20/07, Chris Stankevitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it come with a debugger? I'd love to get into it, but things like learning how to debug/compile/etc are what scare me personally. Sure, check out Icarus Verilog and GTKWave. You basically write a testbench to stimulate your inputs, and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Receiving USRP bits in c++ (no blocks needed)

2007-08-15 Thread Brian Padalino
On 8/15/07, Richard Meston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I'd be very interested in this as well. Especially if it worked under Windoze. Something that will just configure and grab data from the USRP into a buffer would be fantastic. Any ideas anyone? Currently marked as a work in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SMA - N-type connectors for USRP

2007-08-14 Thread Brian Padalino
On 8/14/07, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if $33 is expensive or not for this type of thing. Where do you purchase your connectors and cables? I think Universal Radio has some decent stuff, but they may not have EVERYTHING you're looking for.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Running a Test Simulation of FPGA Code with Quartus

2007-08-07 Thread Brian Padalino
On 8/7/07, Reid N Kleckner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've written a small Verilog module for the FPGA on the USRP to do phase recovery. I'd like to test it in isolation before I try it out on the board, but I'm having major problems feeding Quartus two 16 bit sine and cosine signals

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] rssi questions

2007-08-07 Thread Brian Padalino
On 8/7/07, Zhuocheng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys: I noticed that in the adc_interface, there are registers called rssi_0, rssi_1, rssi_2, and rssi_3. All of which are 32 bits. However, according to the header format:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] rssi questions

2007-08-07 Thread Brian Padalino
On 8/7/07, Johnathan Corgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a digital RSSI value, meaning it's based on the output of the ADC and not the true RF power at the antenna. Furthermore, it's really a single pole low pass averaging filter on the absolute value of the ADC value, with no way to adjust

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] start/end of burst issues

2007-08-06 Thread Brian Padalino
On 8/3/07, Zhuocheng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys: Here is the problem. If I receive a packet whose timestamp is out of date, I trash the packet. If there are packets afterwards that is a continuation of the first packet, I should trash those as well despite the fact that their

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] inband pings and clock

2007-08-03 Thread Brian Padalino
On 8/3/07, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second question. For an application to properly timestamp outgoing packets, the application needs some general idea of the current clock value on the USRP. At first I was thinking oh well the app can just send a ping and read the timestamp

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] testbench problem

2007-08-02 Thread Brian Padalino
On 8/2/07, Zhuocheng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone: This is a follow up of yesterday's start/end of burst issues. I have created a testbench to test my code. See attachment for details(only 4 files). I didn't receive an attachment - could you commit to your SVN branch? Brian

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] testbench problem

2007-08-02 Thread Brian Padalino
On 8/2/07, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mailing list monster probably ate it for good reason! I committed the files to leos branch: http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/branches/developers/zhuochen/simulations/burst_test Other than that, I know nothing about them ;)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] problem with start/end of burst inband FPGA code

2007-08-01 Thread Brian Padalino
On 8/1/07, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so on to the code: http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/branches/developers/zhuochen/burst/usrp/fpga/inband_lib/chan_fifo_reader.v As a general rule, you shouldn't have dangling if-else statements meaning where there's an if, there's an

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FPGA Modifications for a Continuous Carrier?

2007-07-24 Thread Brian Padalino
On 7/24/07, Michael P Buettner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks. I am currently looking at using the USRP for interaction with RFID tags. The crux of the problem is that I need to transmit a continuous carrier wave to power the tag, but I also need very low latency with respect to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] a problem about antenna

2007-07-19 Thread Brian Padalino
On 7/19/07, Dong Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've checked the interface of USRP, its SMA Female, and nearly all the antenna's interface for wireless which are sold in Fry's Electronics is SMA Reverse Plug. So I guess a adapter from SMA Male to SMA Reverse Jack will connector the USRP's RF end

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Low cost, low power FPGA card

2007-07-18 Thread Brian Padalino
On 7/18/07, Kim Toms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arrow has designed a new demonstration card for the Cyclone III FGPA from Altera. I attended one of the seminars yesterday. The board contains many peripherals, an EP3C25F324 FPGA, 1Gb SD Card, 96x64 pixel bit mapped OLED display, audio out,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] setting registers

2007-07-16 Thread Brian Padalino
On 7/16/07, Zhuocheng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys: My name is Zhuocheng Yang, you can call me Leo. I am pretty new to gnuradio, started working on it a month ago. Since Thibaud has gone back to Switzerland, I will be taking over his work. I am currently trying to process the control

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] setting registers

2007-07-16 Thread Brian Padalino
On 7/16/07, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I think what Leo is getting at is how to actually perform the read or the write to a register for the C/S packets. For instance we have the read/write register commands where the application says read from register X or write this data to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OpenMoko

2007-07-10 Thread Brian Padalino
On 7/10/07, Roshan Baliga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed the excitement yesterday, then found this tidbit at the bottom of their software page: (*) GPS position calculation and, also for regulatory reasons, firmware contained in peripheral chips are the only exceptions. Those components

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Frequency resolution of CORDIC algorithm

2007-06-28 Thread Brian Padalino
On 6/28/07, Trond Danielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, after having read several papers on the subject, I am still not able to find the answer I am looking for. I wonder how to calculate the frequency resolution of the CORDIC algorithm. In an earlier post to this mailing list it was stated

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: reporting control/status responses for inband signaling?

2007-06-28 Thread Brian Padalino
On 6/28/07, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think that the response should be sent back on the TX port the command was sent on... because what happens when an application owns more than 1 RX channel? Even if we went by owner, the application doesn't exactly know which RX

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: reporting control/status responses for inband signaling?

2007-06-25 Thread Brian Padalino
On 6/25/07, George Nychis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a perfect question for Eric, but unfortunately he is on vacation. So I'm hoping that maybe Brian or someone can answer who was involved in the initial design of the inband USB packets :) I'll do my best to figure it out. The way we

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] offset at input of LF_RX

2007-06-21 Thread Brian Padalino
On 6/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a software flag in the code I can switch off? If so, where? http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/UsrpFPGA Under Common Registers: 15 FR_DC_OFFSET_CL_EN DC offset control loop enable Brian

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GMSK: GSM initial phase for a burst

2007-06-18 Thread Brian Padalino
On 6/18/07, Jeffrey Karrels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another quick question. I can now see that after the amplitude ramp up that there is a short section of negative phase movement (.7 radians clockwise) prior to the remaining counterclockwise rotations. Should I expect a full (-pi/2) to start

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GMSK: GSM initial phase for a burst

2007-06-18 Thread Brian Padalino
On 6/18/07, Brian Padalino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GMSK has a certain level of ISI built into the waveform. 0.7 radians is about a pi/2 shift (0.2228 versus 0.25?) which would be pretty darn close. Whoops - looks like I've got QPSK on the brain today. Sorry about that. Not really sure why

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio on different platforms.

2007-06-16 Thread Brian Padalino
On 6/16/07, John Kent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are they using a NIOS processor for the USB interface by any chance ? No, a Cypress FX2 is used for the USB MAC/PHY. I believe the next design is going to have an opencores processor within it. It sounds like the Altera device more closely

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio on different platforms.

2007-06-15 Thread Brian Padalino
On 6/15/07, John Kent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am an amateur radio enthusiast, and am interested in implementing Digital TV. I believe, reading the GNU Radio web site, that that was one of the motivations of some of the members here. I have seen some screen shots of HDTV receiver pictures on

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] several beginner questions (mostly about the fpga)

2007-06-14 Thread Brian Padalino
On 6/14/07, micael magpayo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello GNURadio community, I'm really interested in the GNURadio project and I want to have a better understanding of the FPGA code (usrp_std.v etc...). I've been trying to learn it on my own but some parts are hard to understand when all you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FPGA in USRP

2007-06-14 Thread Brian Padalino
On 6/14/07, S Mande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have worked with VHDL for 3 years and would want to make use my knowledge to do some research in Software defined Radio. I have a very different problem from most of the other postings. I am actually looking for a 'problem'. For the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] r/s encoding and padding on gmsk

2007-05-19 Thread Brian Padalino
On 5/18/07, Brett L. Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm involved with very lossy links and low signal strengths using gmsk and dqpsk and would like to add a layer of reed-solomon encoding in place of the current CRC check. My plan was to use reed solomon in a standard (255,223) configuration

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CIC stop band

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Padalino
On 5/17/07, Eng. Firas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I can give you a precise MATLAB based simulated USRP frequency response. All what I need is the HBF coefficients. So this is an open invitation to our dear Matt to give us his designed USRP HBF coefficients or frequency response. Reading

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Capture File format

2007-05-08 Thread Brian Padalino
On 5/8/07, Jeffrey Karrels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have an array in MATLAB that is the IQ data in complex form of a capture from my hardware. I wish to now feed this to GNURadio. What format do I export/save this array to file? Are there any example .m files floating around for this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GMSK minimum bitrate

2007-05-08 Thread Brian Padalino
On 5/8/07, Håvard Espeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're writing a gmsk radio module with low bitrate (5 kbps) and continuous constant bitrate transmission using Gnuradio 3.0.3 and USRP. The code is based on the digital/tx_voice.py example, and I have two unanswered questions. By hacking on

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr_correlate_access_code_bb question

2007-05-01 Thread Brian Padalino
On 5/1/07, Dan Halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, Sorry to bring up painful memories :). I did some calculations to work out frequency drift of the USRPs, and I wanted to know where I'm going wrong. The crystals in the RFX 2400 are spec'ed

[Discuss-gnuradio] FX2 TX DMA Transfer Question

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Padalino
When the FX2 detects the have_space pin on the FPGA, does it transfer 1 entire buffered USB packet to the FPGA, then re-check the have_space pin? Would it be reasonable to assume a 1 clock delay between the last byte of one 512-byte packet being written to the FPGA and the first byte of a second

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] packets to the usrp and loopback

2007-04-23 Thread Brian Padalino
On 4/23/07, Thibaud Hottelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know :) What kind of problem should I expect when trying to go from simulation to reality ? I'd run more simulations where there are a massive number of packets waiting to be sent, schedule things too close to each other, make the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP RX Decimation Rate

2007-04-22 Thread Brian Padalino
On 4/22/07, Eng. Firas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Brian, Matt. If the CIC starts linearly from 4 to 128, and followed by decimate by 2 Half Band Filter (HBF) Then [CIC+HBF] should give us the following range [8,10,12,14,...,256], and not the range [2,4,6,8,..,256] , is this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Free USRP FPGA Resources

2007-04-22 Thread Brian Padalino
On 4/22/07, Eng. Firas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Matt, Dear All, Is the DDC decimate by 2 half band filter built inside the FPGA ? If it is so, then how much the free available FPGA resources left after building all the present USPR circuits in it? I mean, is there a free space to modify

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] packets to the usrp and loopback

2007-04-22 Thread Brian Padalino
On 4/22/07, Thibaud Hottelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Padalino wrote: I have just refactored the code so that the fifos are out of the readers. I also added samples format handling (only 16 bits interleaved complex so far). I am looking forward to testing this; George told me he

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] packets to the usrp and loopback

2007-04-21 Thread Brian Padalino
On 4/21/07, Thibaud Hottelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I move the FIFOs outside next time I refactor this. Perfect. Yes, it makes much more sense. In the current design, the strobes are generated by a separated block; would it be more logical to make the strobes be generated by the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] packets to the usrp and loopback

2007-04-20 Thread Brian Padalino
On 4/20/07, Thibaud Hottelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I moved all my small testing blocks from ModelSim to the Quartus source tree. I am writing the glue code between the modules so we should have the basic Tx functionality working relatively soon. But before that, I would like to simulate

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