Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] make check errors

2007-12-11 Thread Dan Halperin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johnathan Corgan wrote: > On 12/11/07, Johnathan Corgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I see this as well now. It can be attributed to a check-in on the trunk >> 2 days ago that Martin did to fix an iir bug (r7089). I suspect the iir >> QA needs to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re-writing blocks using intel libraries

2007-12-11 Thread Matt Ettus
General curiosity questions: Are you using oprofile to measure performance? I am a bit of a maverick, and for various reasons am using a pure C++ environment. I hacked my own 'connect_block' function (can;t wait for v3.2, where these will be part of native gr). I am measuring the perform

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] make check errors

2007-12-11 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On 12/11/07, Johnathan Corgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see this as well now. It can be attributed to a check-in on the trunk > 2 days ago that Martin did to fix an iir bug (r7089). I suspect the iir > QA needs to be updated. The changeset for r7089 has been reverted on the trunk. -- Joh

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: make check seg faults

2007-12-11 Thread Ketan Mandke
Correction. The "-O" fix that I thought I had only works some of the time. This is a very peculiar bug. On Dec 11, 2007 8:24 PM, Ketan Mandke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently created an object which spawns an omni_thread and then > cleans it up when stop() is called. The object that I creat

[Discuss-gnuradio] make check seg faults

2007-12-11 Thread Ketan Mandke
I recently created an object which spawns an omni_thread and then cleans it up when stop() is called. The object that I created works fine during normal operation, however when I run make check I get very strange behavior. In Ticket #180 (http://gnuradio.utah.edu/trac/ticket/180), Eric describes th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] make check errors

2007-12-11 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Michael Dickens wrote: > I finally got around to updating to the new top-block code, and 'make > check' now fails on both Intel-Mac and PPC-Mac running OSX 10.4.11. The > QA code is fine. Anyone else see this issue? - MLD I see this as well now. It can be attributed to a check-in on the trunk

[Discuss-gnuradio] make check errors

2007-12-11 Thread Michael Dickens
I finally got around to updating to the new top-block code, and 'make check' now fails on both Intel-Mac and PPC-Mac running OSX 10.4.11. The QA code is fine. Anyone else see this issue? - MLD Making check in gnuradio-core Making check in src Making check in python Making check in gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re-writing blocks using intel libraries

2007-12-11 Thread Martin Dvh
Eric Blossom wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 03:41:46PM -0800, Eugene Grayver wrote: >> Please see answers in-line. >> >> Thanks! > >> General curiosity questions: >> >> Are you using oprofile to measure performance? >> >> I am a bit of a maverick, and for various reasons am using a pure C++ >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re-writing blocks using intel libraries

2007-12-11 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:03:28PM -0800, Dan Halperin wrote: > Eugene Grayver wrote: > > Please see answers in-line. > > Which blocks are causing you the biggest problem? > > > > I got a 2x improvement on all the filtering blocks. About a 40% > > improvement for sine/cosine generation blocks.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re-writing blocks using intel libraries

2007-12-11 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 03:41:46PM -0800, Eugene Grayver wrote: > Please see answers in-line. > > Thanks! > General curiosity questions: > > Are you using oprofile to measure performance? > > I am a bit of a maverick, and for various reasons am using a pure C++ > environment. I hacked my ow

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] BasicRX boards and AM transmission

2007-12-11 Thread Martin Dvh
Don Ward wrote: > "Philip Heron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Martin Braun wrote: >>> RXing with the USRP simply doesn't work, though, neither with >>> usrp_rx_nogui.py nor with anything I could come up with. I get lots >>> more noise than expected and usually I get a very loud buzz or >>> whis

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re-writing blocks using intel libraries

2007-12-11 Thread Dan Halperin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eugene Grayver wrote: > Please see answers in-line. > Which blocks are causing you the biggest problem? > > I got a 2x improvement on all the filtering blocks. About a 40% > improvement for sine/cosine generation blocks. This includes gr_expj, >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re-writing blocks using intel libraries

2007-12-11 Thread Eugene Grayver
Please see answers in-line. Thanks! Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/11/2007 02:31 PM To Eugene Grayver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re-writing blocks using intel libraries On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:13:32AM -

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re-writing blocks using intel libraries

2007-12-11 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:13:32AM -0800, Eugene Grayver wrote: > Hello, > > We are working on some systems that require high sampling rates. I am > already using the Intel C++ compiler at the highest optimization ratio, > but a lot of the blocks are very slow still. It appears that intel C++

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Ideas for improved FM reception

2007-12-11 Thread Martin Dvh
Patrick Strasser wrote: > Martin Dvh schrieb am 2007-12-07 18:28: > >> The second thing I want to do is detecting if multiple transmitters >> (at different locations and frequencies) transmit the same radiostation. >> With a single tuner I can capture all these signals at the same time. > > Provi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] BasicRX boards and AM transmission

2007-12-11 Thread Don Ward
"Philip Heron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martin Braun wrote: RXing with the USRP simply doesn't work, though, neither with usrp_rx_nogui.py nor with anything I could come up with. I get lots more noise than expected and usually I get a very loud buzz or whistle which is a lot louder than the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] BasicRX boards and AM transmission

2007-12-11 Thread Philip Heron
Martin Braun wrote: RXing with the USRP simply doesn't work, though, neither with usrp_rx_nogui.py nor with anything I could come up with. I get lots more noise than expected and usually I get a very loud buzz or whistle which is a lot louder than the TXed signal. Has anyone else had this probl

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re-writing blocks using intel libraries

2007-12-11 Thread Eugene Grayver
Hello, We are working on some systems that require high sampling rates. I am already using the Intel C++ compiler at the highest optimization ratio, but a lot of the blocks are very slow still. It appears that intel C++ does not properly vectorize data type. I have been replacing almost ev

[Discuss-gnuradio] Frontend Hardware which is not USRP

2007-12-11 Thread Eugene Grayver
It's actually reasonably simple to design your own hardware interface. All you need are hw_source_c and hw_sink_c. I designed one for the Nallatech/XtremeDSP from Xilinx. As long as you already have functions to read and write to/from hardware, the blocks are actually very simple.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Is that possible combining usrp_fft.py and usrp_spectrum_sense.py to do spectrum analysis and observe in GUI in a wider frequency range?

2007-12-11 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 12:34:07PM -0800, Brook Lin wrote: > However, by given the lower bound and the upper bound of the freq range, > next_freq can be get and "Failed to set frequency to", self.next_freq" is > also get. and all the plots are the same, seems > self.set_freq(self.next_freq) doesn't

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] C++ Block Development / configure.ac

2007-12-11 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 01:21:09PM +0100, Martin Braun wrote: > Hi block developers, > > I've some questions regarding block development. First of all, what I did was > take the gr-howto-write-xxx package, chuck out anything that was > howto-specific and replace it with my own code. Is this how

[Discuss-gnuradio] [Swig-user] Help with Shed Skin Python-to-C++ compiler

2007-12-11 Thread Eric Blossom
FYI, Eric --- Begin Message --- Hi all, Is anyone here interested in helping out with extension module support in Shed Skin? Shed Skin is an experimental Python-to-C++ compiler, that takes implicitly statically typed Python code and converts it (at the source level) to relatively readable C++. For

[Discuss-gnuradio] slightly OT: time-nuts and N8UR featured in wired

2007-12-11 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/time_hackers -- Ramakrishnan VU3RDD ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] C++ Block Development / configure.ac

2007-12-11 Thread Martin Braun
Hi block developers, I've some questions regarding block development. First of all, what I did was take the gr-howto-write-xxx package, chuck out anything that was howto-specific and replace it with my own code. Is this how everone else goes along? Next, I realized that if I don't want to call

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Ideas for improved FM reception

2007-12-11 Thread Patrick Strasser
Martin Dvh schrieb am 2007-12-07 18:28: The second thing I want to do is detecting if multiple transmitters (at different locations and frequencies) transmit the same radiostation. With a single tuner I can capture all these signals at the same time. Provided they are within 8 or 16MHz. The

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: BasicRX boards and AM transmission

2007-12-11 Thread Patrick Strasser
Martin Braun schrieb am 2007-12-10 17:06: Hi, RXing with the USRP simply doesn't work, though, neither with usrp_rx_nogui.py nor with anything I could come up with. I get lots more noise than expected and usually I get a very loud buzz or whistle which is a lot louder than the TXed signal. Ha