Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Greg Troxel
Pu, Di [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to figure out the Matlab interface to USRP. Although I could enable the communications between Matlab and GNU Radio, I am wondering whether it is possible to make Matlab hook to USRP directly without GNU radio. Thank you very much! (This isn't

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Philip Balister
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Greg Troxel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There has been some recent discussion about using Free software that has matlab-like features, like octave and freemat. http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ http://freemat.sourceforge.net/ I did some poking around the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Jeff Brower
Greg- I am trying to figure out the Matlab interface to USRP. Although I could enable the communications between Matlab and GNU Radio, I am wondering whether it is possible to make Matlab hook to USRP directly without GNU radio. Thank you very much! (This isn't entirely directed at you -

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: [Patch-gnuradio] bug / typo in gri_wavfile.cc (gr_wavfile_source)

2008-04-09 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Tim Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there is a typo / bug in gri_wavfile.cc that prevents it from working properly with big-endian machines. Good catch. We had noted the failure of the QA code on big-endian machines but hadn't had time to track it down.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP w/ 4-bit IQ samples

2008-04-09 Thread Tyrel Newton
Paul, Would you mind sharing your implementation along with any accompanying documentation? We are making some modifications to the FPGA firmware ourselves (mods for a much more application specific usage) and while I'm not sure how far we'll get with needing the 4-bit samples, we'd

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: [Patch-gnuradio] bug / typo in gri_wavfile.cc (gr_wavfile_source)

2008-04-09 Thread Tim Meehan
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Johnathan Corgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Tim Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there is a typo / bug in gri_wavfile.cc that prevents it from working properly with big-endian machines. Good catch. We had noted the

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: [Patch-gnuradio] bug / typo in gri_wavfile.cc (gr_wavfile_source)

2008-04-09 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Tim Meehan wrote: removed the x (xtest - test) QA check test passed What is your processor/OS combination? ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: [Patch-gnuradio] bug / typo in gri_wavfile.cc (gr_wavfile_source)

2008-04-09 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Tim Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: removed the x (xtest - test) QA check test passed Fixed in trunk revision r8163. -- Johnathan Corgan Corgan Enterprises LLC http://corganenterprises.com/ ___ Discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: [Patch-gnuradio] bug / typo in gri_wavfile.cc (gr_wavfile_source)

2008-04-09 Thread Tim Meehan
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Johnathan Corgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Meehan wrote: removed the x (xtest - test) QA check test passed What is your processor/OS combination? PS3 / Linux ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I understand completely your viewpoint. However, let me point out that one of your key objectives should be to increase popularity of GNU Radio software. One way to do this is to encourage and support GNU Radio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Jeff Brower
Pedro- I understand completely your viewpoint. However, let me point out that one of your key objectives should be to increase popularity of GNU Radio software. One way to do this is to encourage and support GNU Radio software examples that interface with MATLAB in some way. Yes, you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Jeff Brower
Greg- On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I understand completely your viewpoint. However, let me point out that one of your key objectives should be to increase popularity of GNU Radio software. One way to do this is to encourage and support

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg- On days that I'm in philosophical mode, I completely agree. But the reality is that MATLAB is far more widely used than Octave. MATLAB is at the core of the commercial and academic RF community, Octave is not.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 10:38:23AM -0500, Jeff Brower wrote: Greg- I am trying to figure out the Matlab interface to USRP. Although I could enable the communications between Matlab and GNU Radio, I am wondering whether it is possible to make Matlab hook to USRP directly without GNU

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Philip Balister
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But there is no arguing with success, and MATLAB is highly successful. For GNU Radio to succeed it should gracefully navigate the RF community real world, and MATLAB is a key part of that. The pragmatic approach involves

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Matt Ettus
I think the problem is that there are basically 2 separate cultures here. There are those coming from the CS and free software world, and those coming from the radio, engineering, academic, industry, hardware, etc. worlds. Those in the free software world often don't understand how truly

[Discuss-gnuradio] A file_sink question

2008-04-09 Thread David Li
When I tried to dump audio stream data into a file_sink, I found this was doable on a Ubuntu 7.10 with Python 2.5 but not on a FC6 with Python 2.4. I had no clues so far why this happened. Any ideas? Thanks. - David ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 01:29:55PM -0400, Philip Balister wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But there is no arguing with success, and MATLAB is highly successful. For GNU Radio to succeed it should gracefully navigate the RF community real

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 10:38:08AM -0700, Matt Ettus wrote: I think the problem is that there are basically 2 separate cultures here. There are those coming from the CS and free software world, and those coming from the radio, engineering, academic, industry, hardware, etc. worlds.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Jeff Brower
Matt- I think the problem is that there are basically 2 separate cultures here. There are those coming from the CS and free software world, and those coming from the radio, engineering, academic, industry, hardware, etc. worlds. Those in the free software world often don't understand how

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Eric, well said. My one exception is your reasoning based on what features MATLAB and/or GNU Radio have or don't have. If you ask colleagues why do you need to use MATLAB they will say because it's what

[Discuss-gnuradio] No Tx output from any daughterboards

2008-04-09 Thread Ed Criscuolo
This is primarily aimed at Josh, but I'll take advice from anyone. :) I've been using GnuRadio and GRC for about 9 months, and built several successful receiver projects. Recently, I've tried my first transmitter project and run into a snag. According to our hardware spectrum analyzer, I'm not

[Discuss-gnuradio] Archlinux

2008-04-09 Thread Casey Tucker
Thanks for looking into the GCC 4.3 issue. I have successfully compiled gnuradio with the previous GCC which will work fine for now, although I am glad to see that the new one will be supported soon. Gotta love working in a field of constant change :S I would like to contribute to the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Archlinux

2008-04-09 Thread George Nychis
Casey Tucker wrote: Thanks for looking into the GCC 4.3 issue. I have successfully compiled gnuradio with the previous GCC which will work fine for now, although I am glad to see that the new one will be supported soon. Gotta love working in a field of constant change :S I would like to

[Discuss-gnuradio] RE: Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Kevin Rudd
I know no one asked for it, but I am going to throw my two cents in on this discussion. I model and simulate RF systems in MATLAB all day long. Some of which are very complex. MATLAB is easy to use and very powerful for that purpose. It would be great to demonstrate the systems using the

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Long, Jeffrey P.
more two cents I love Matlab and I use it every day but there is a time and a place for it and it is not as an computational engine for a software defined radio. Signal processing for an SDR is just not the right use for it. It just can't keep up. If you were generating complied code in simulink

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] No Tx output from any daughterboards SOLVED

2008-04-09 Thread Ed Criscuolo
Josh Blum wrote: What are the range of floating point numbers going into the usrp sink? Some boards need amplitudes in the 10e3 floating point range. -Josh That was it. I was inadvertantly giving it numbers with a range of plus or minus 1.0 ! +-16000 works nicely. @(^.^)@ Ed

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Tom Rondeau
Eric Blossom wrote: I have no interest in supporting an interface to MATLAB, or any other proprietary software for that matter. I'd be much more interested in working with Octave, or better yet, working up an excellent interface to scipy. Just because EE's are trained in MATLAB, doesn't mean

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP w/ 4-bit IQ samples

2008-04-09 Thread Paul Creekmore
We'll be looking into the possibility of contributing the new FPGA configuration to GNU Radio once our code has been tested and refined. --Paul Tyrel Newton wrote: Paul, Would you mind sharing your implementation along with any accompanying documentation? We are making some modifications

[Discuss-gnuradio] C++ daughterboard code [was MATLAB...]

2008-04-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:45:56PM -0400, Kevin Rudd wrote: I know no one asked for it, but I am going to throw my two cents in on this discussion. I model and simulate RF systems in MATLAB all day long. Some of which are very complex. MATLAB is easy to use and very powerful for that

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP w/ 4-bit IQ samples

2008-04-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:36:48PM -0400, Paul Creekmore wrote: We'll be looking into the possibility of contributing the new FPGA configuration to GNU Radio once our code has been tested and refined. --Paul Thanks! Eric ___ Discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] C++ daughterboard code [was MATLAB...]

2008-04-09 Thread Michael Dickens
On Apr 9, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Eric Blossom wrote: If somebody wants do do something useful that would forward the action, I suggest investing the effort required to convert the daughterboard code to C++. Johnathan has looked at this, and may still have a developer branch around somewhere. If

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] C++ daughterboard code [was MATLAB...]

2008-04-09 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Eric Blossom wrote: I suggest investing the effort required to convert the daughterboard code to C++. Johnathan has looked at this, and may still have a developer branch around somewhere. If you're interested in working on this, please post a note to the list, and Johnathan, Matt or I will

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] C++ daughterboard code

2008-04-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 02:48:50PM -0700, Johnathan Corgan wrote: There is a developer branch: http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/branches/developers/jcorgan/usrpdb This branch has implemented the framework for a C++ implementation of all the daughterboards, and several boards

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] C++ daughterboard code

2008-04-09 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Eric Blossom wrote: For the USRP1, then, there needs to be a method on usrp_standard_rx and usrp_standard_tx classes that produces one of these callback objects. I'm assuming that this is just a simple C++ class with virtual methods. Yes, it would derive from a the hwa virtual base class

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP w/ 4-bit IQ samples

2008-04-09 Thread Nagaraj C Shivaramaiah
Hi Paul and Tyrel, I'm also in a similar situation to get the maximum bandwidth possible, but just started... For me 2 bit quantization is sufficient I've started modifying the FPGA firmware but I think it will take some time before I implement and test it thoroughly.. Any approximate time

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP w/ 4-bit IQ samples

2008-04-09 Thread Paul Creekmore
Well, I'm hoping to have 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16-bit quantization options tested and working by the end of the month, if not within the next two weeks. We're debugging an implementation right now. But for full integration into GNU Radio, there are several other considerations that my group has

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Jeff Brower
more two cents I love Matlab and I use it every day but there is a time and a place for it and it is not as an computational engine for a software defined radio. Signal processing for an SDR is just not the right use for it. It just can't keep up. If you were generating complied code in