[Discuss-gnuradio] TVRX Kit - A Few Queries

2007-10-12 Thread Prasanna Rao
I ordered Tvrx module and expect it to arrive at my place soon. Hope it will have a manual or imp guidelines on usage. Anyhow, I have a few basic questions : 1) What is range of the IF I can set its output to? 2) Can I use it for HDTV reception? 3) What is the max voltage swing in the output? Is

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

2007-10-12 Thread Brian Padalino
On 10/12/07, Jeff Brower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > 2) Does your new FPGA code require the next-gen USRP, with Spartan 3 FPGA? > My understanding is that capacity is very > limited in the Cyclone, which is an old FPGA (around yr 2002 time-frame). If you have a single, specific applicatio

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 y

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

2007-10-12 Thread Jeff Brower
Brian- > > 2) Does your new FPGA code require the next-gen USRP, with Spartan 3 FPGA? > > My understanding is that capacity is very > > limited in the Cyclone, which is an old FPGA (around yr 2002 time-frame). > > If you have a single, specific application in mind, you should be able > to reduc

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

2007-10-12 Thread Jeff Brower
Brian- > 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 i

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] TVRX Kit - A Few Queries

2007-10-12 Thread Nirali Patel
>>I ordered Tvrx module and expect it to arrive at my place soon. Hope it will have a manual or imp guidelines on usage. The TVRX will not come with a manual or guidelines on usage. You can find the schematics at http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/usrp-hw/trunk/tvrx The TVRX module has a Microtune

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

2007-10-12 Thread Jeff Brower
Brian- > > 2) Does your new FPGA code require the next-gen USRP, with Spartan 3 FPGA? > > My understanding is that capacity is very > > limited in the Cyclone, which is an old FPGA (around yr 2002 time-frame). > > If you have a single, specific application in mind, you should be able > to reduc

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Contribute to the in-band project: profile the code

2007-10-12 Thread George Nychis
Dominik Auras wrote: Hi! I have tried to profile your code. Thank you! :D What are your machine specs? First thing I noted: The PMT library from your svn branch had to be installed with sudo make install. Now I installed the whole branch. Yes, I forgot to mention this, thank you! I wi

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP to USRP communication over air

2007-10-12 Thread Archana Ragothaman
Hello, I am Archana from the University of Maryland,College Park. I have two USRPs connected to two laptops. The USRPs have antennae connected to them. Basically I am trying to get the two USRPs communicate with each other using OFDM. I started by playing around with the ofdm_benchmark_tx.py and o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TVRX Kit - A Few Queries

2007-10-12 Thread Matt Ettus
>>> 1) What is range of the IF I can set its output to? >>> > It has a fixed IF at 44Mhz I believe. A different version of the same tuner > module comes with 5.75Mhz IF. Matt, please correct me if I am wrong. > Yes, the shippingones have an IF of 44 MHz. The older ones were 5.75 MHz, b

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrp_prims python module missing

2007-10-12 Thread Paul Creekmore
Johnathan Corgan wrote: Paul Creekmore wrote: The only package I've ever installed was 3.0.2. I've done so once with Synaptic Package Manager and once with apt-get. I see no mention of usrpm. Specifically, usrp_fft.py imports usrp.py, and usrp.py imports usrp_prims and usrp_dbid, neither

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Contribute to the in-band project: profile the code

2007-10-12 Thread George Nychis
OK sorry for the flood :P I've finally been able to reproduce this error on another one of my machines... it does not seem to occur at all on two of my machines, but on a third it does. Looking in to this now. - George ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TVRX Kit - A Few Queries

2007-10-12 Thread Marcus Leech
Matt Ettus wrote: > > Yes, the shippingones have an IF of 44 MHz. The older ones were 5.75 > MHz, but from the user's point of view, it doesn't matter. You don't > need to know the IF. > > > > Matt > Actually that's something I was curious about as well. I'll likely be picking up a TV_RX for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Contribute to the in-band project: profile the code

2007-10-12 Thread George Nychis
George Nychis wrote: These appear after "Closing the USRP". There is cpu usage only after this message, and only one core is used (is that right?). It takes more than 8 minutes, not 40s as in your example in the wiki. Since it appeared to hang, I have interrupted the execution. One more th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Contribute to the in-band project: profile the code

2007-10-12 Thread Dominik Auras
Hi! I have tried to profile your code. First thing I noted: The PMT library from your svn branch had to be installed with sudo make install. Now I installed the whole branch. Next thing: When I run test_usrp_inband_rx, it takes very long time and produces messages: fusb: (rd status -2) No such f

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Unable to find field sync for over the air HDTV signal

2007-10-12 Thread Nirali Patel
Hello Eric, > [In looking at interp.py, it could be modified to run something like > 4x faster by using gr.interp_fir_filter_ccf instead of what's in > there. Also, decimating by 10 seems a bit agressive. By 8 would give > you more usable signal, though would require changes in the interp.py > c

[Discuss-gnuradio] using an external clock with the RFX 900

2007-10-12 Thread Harvind Samra
Hi there, I've got a USRP v4 board that I'm planning to run off of a 13Mhz external clock. I know how to modify the hardware and software accordingly. (I hope.) However, I'm intending to use a pair of RFX 900 daughterboards, and I'm wondering if there are any known mods needed to allow these dau

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TVRX Kit - A Few Queries

2007-10-12 Thread Prasanna Rao
If IF is at 44MHz, is it further downconverted(to around 5-15MHz) before being fed to the ADC? I just want to know this out of curiosity. Pls let me know. _ Cheers! Prasanna On 10/12/07, Nirali Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I ordered Tvrx module and expect it to arrive at my pla