Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] M-block integration status

2010-01-15 Thread Josh Blum
On 01/15/2010 10:46 AM, Ben Gear wrote: Hi Eric, Great to have an update on how the new features are progressing. m-blocks and the replacement features have been mentioned a few times on this mailing list in relation to building TDMA MACs. Having VRT metadata available in gr blocks is going to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:54:24PM -0500, Tom Gross wrote: > > I guess I could study the firmware source (if it's in the C code where > this happens) to figure out what happens if RX is OFF. My assumption > is that somewhere in the USRP2 code there is some recognition that it > can't keep up with

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] M-block integration status

2010-01-15 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 06:46:47PM +, Ben Gear wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Great to have an update on how the new features are progressing. > m-blocks and the replacement features have been mentioned a few times > on this mailing list in relation to building TDMA MACs. Having VRT > metadata availab

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: WBX

2010-01-15 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/15/2010 12:39 PM, Matt Ettus wrote: Yes, that one is actually designed by the same person as the one we sell. We could carry it as well if there were enough demand. Matt Something I wonder about FR4-based patch antennae is the loss factor. At the higher frequencies (above 500Mhz

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Tom Gross
Thanks Eric, that's exactly what I thought. I think in our application it's probably better to drop data, or at least that's why things are more stable for us when RX is OFF. Or maybe we should just slow down a bit. Something to think about. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Eric Blossom wrote

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: WBX

2010-01-15 Thread Mamoru Yamamoto
Matt-san, Congratulations to the WBX announcement. As you know well, I am using USRP-1 for 150MHz/400MHz satellite beacon experiment, and the WBX just meets our frequency range. I would like to test it as soon as possible. But at the same time, I would like to say that RFX400 is very useful

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Tom Gross
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Eric Blossom wrote: > > Actually, PAUSE handling is all handled in the FPGA.  When the FIFO is > getting full, a PAUSE frame is sent on the wire telling the host to > stop sending for a while. > Incidentally my System Engineer/Project Lead points out that if the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Matt Ettus
Incidentally my System Engineer/Project Lead points out that if the USRP2 is actually telling the host to stop sending (which certainly appears to be the case) then we are only able to get overall throughput with two USRP2s over two gig-e connections comparable to what we were getting with a sin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Tom Gross
yes of course we have two separate gig-e cards. if the usrp2 is sending us "pause" commands then it seems evident the usrp2 is having trouble keeping up, not the computer. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Matt Ettus wrote: > >> Incidentally my System Engineer/Project Lead points out that if the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Tom Gross
Matt, What is the maximum data rate that the USRP2 transmitter can accept from the host without firing pause signals back to the host? -Tom On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Matt Ettus wrote: > >> Incidentally my System Engineer/Project Lead points out that if the >> USRP2 is actually telling th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 15:08, Tom Gross wrote: > yes of course we have two separate gig-e cards.   if the usrp2 is > sending us "pause" commands then it seems evident the usrp2 is having > trouble keeping up, not the computer. The host software, when creating a data stream to be sent to the USR

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Matt Ettus
On 01/15/2010 03:14 PM, Tom Gross wrote: Matt, What is the maximum data rate that the USRP2 transmitter can accept from the host without firing pause signals back to the host? See my other message. The USRP2 will ALWAYS put out pause frames. In fact, when the data rate is low it will actuall

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Matt Ettus
On 01/15/2010 03:08 PM, Tom Gross wrote: yes of course we have two separate gig-e cards. if the usrp2 is sending us "pause" commands then it seems evident the usrp2 is having trouble keeping up, not the computer. First off, the USRP2 will only send pause frames when you are transmitting, not

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Tom Gross
Thanks Matt, Eric and Jonathan (hope I didn't forget anyone. :-) ). We greatly appreciate the information and need to think about stuff on our end. I've been deliberately vague about our application (not that I could really explain it even if I felt authorized discuss it). The thing to remember

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-pager build issue

2010-01-15 Thread Veljko Pejovic
Hi, I got the same error: make[4]: *** No rule to make target `/../lib/libgnuradio-pager.la', needed by `_pager_swig.la'. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/moment/Documents/gnuradio-veljkop/trunk/gnuradio/gr-pager/swig' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/moment/Do

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-pager build issue

2010-01-15 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 17:44, Veljko Pejovic wrote: > I got the same error: > > make[4]: *** No rule to make target `/../lib/libgnuradio-pager.la', > needed by `_pager_swig.la'.  Stop. > Did anyone find out what is the source of this error is? I just did a from-scratch rebuild of the current g

[Discuss-gnuradio] Commit emails from git repository

2010-01-15 Thread Johnathan Corgan
In the spirit of more open communication, I've changed the gnuradio.org configuration to send commit emails from individual developer repositories to the main commit-gnuradio mailing list. The upside to this is that it is easier to see what people are working on before it gets promoted to the main

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Matt Ettus
On 01/15/2010 03:53 PM, Tom Gross wrote: Thanks Matt, Eric and Jonathan (hope I didn't forget anyone. :-) ). We greatly appreciate the information and need to think about stuff on our end. I've been deliberately vague about our application (not that I could really explain it even if I felt auth

[Discuss-gnuradio] need help on loading my own FPGA bitstream

2010-01-15 Thread Yan Nie
Dear all, I'm trying to load my own FPGA bitstream. The .rbf file, however, cannot be loaded due to the errors as below. I've already copied the .rbf file under the directories /usr/local/share/usrp/rev2 and rev4 as well. Could you please guide me what the problem or the solution to solve the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Jeff Brower
Tom- > Thanks Matt, Eric and Jonathan (hope I didn't forget anyone. :-) ). > > We greatly appreciate the information and need to think about stuff on > our end. I've been deliberately vague about our application (not that > I could really explain it even if I felt authorized discuss it). The >

[Discuss-gnuradio] Throughput with Turbo Encoder

2010-01-15 Thread 万千
Dear all, I am new to GNU Radio. I am building a transceiver with turbo encoder and FQPSK modulator. At the receiver, FQPSK demodulator softly demodulates the received signals with BCJR algorithm (FQPSK can be viewed as a two-bit input TCM with 16 states). I simulated the system using C++ co

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Throughput with Turbo Encoder

2010-01-15 Thread Lin HUANG
The throughput depends on how optimal and fast the program you write is. I'm not familar with Turbo decoder theory. In 2007, we used turbo decoder from IT++ libary (http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/itpp/). It is faster than that we wrote. It supports a 64 kbps (One CPU) and 384 kbps (maybe 3 C

[Discuss-gnuradio] Bitrate doubt

2010-01-15 Thread amarnath alapati
hi folks, I am using BENCHMARK_TX.PY, BENCHMARK_RX.PY to test the transmission and reception of signals. I have doubts regarding the outpu that is appearing on the screen. >>> gr_fir_fff: using SSE socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(0xBEEF)): Operation not permitted eth0: socket: No such f

[Discuss-gnuradio] "usleep" problem while executing "make" for gnuradio-3.1.3 on MSYS-MINGW

2010-01-15 Thread Shabbir Ahmed
Hi ALL: I have been trying to get GNURADIO installed on windows, failed with CYGWIN and then tried with MSYS/MINGW everything went fine until the last, while executing "make" for gnuradio.

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM modulation/demodulation over USRP2

2010-01-15 Thread Patrik Eliardsson
Hi, I've tried the OFDM example on the USRP2 with minor changes and I didn't encounter any problems. Be sure that you have the same FFT-length, number of occupied tones, interpolation/decimation on both the receiver and transmitter. Have you tried to increase the distance between the transmitte

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] "usleep" problem while executing "make" forgnuradio-3.1.3 on MSYS-MINGW

2010-01-15 Thread Don Ward
Shabbir Ahmed wrote: I have been trying to get GNURADIO installed on windows, failed with CYGWIN and then tried with MSYS/MINGW everything went fine until the last, while executing "make" for gnuradio.

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: WBX

2010-01-15 Thread John Ewan
Another antenna to look at. http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/cgi-bin/commerce.exe?preadd=action&key=LPY41 From: discuss-gnuradio-bounces+jewan=its.bldrdoc@gnu.org [discuss-gnuradio-bounces+jewan=its.bldrdoc@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Marcus D. Leec

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: WBX

2010-01-15 Thread Mark Whittington
It amazes me how much people will pay for a piece of FR-4 and an SMA connector. -Mark On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:32 AM, John Ewan wrote: > Another antenna to look at. > > > http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/cgi-bin/commerce.exe?preadd=action&key=LPY41 > > > > > __

[Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio and beagle board

2010-01-15 Thread andrea
Hi, I'm testing gnuradio with the beagle board. I'm using: - gnuradio 3.2.1 (with neon patch). - libusb-1.0-0 First, I've tried benchmark_dotprod_fff: # ./benchmark_dotprod_fff generic: taps: 256 input: 4e+07 cpu: 1119.820 taps/sec: 9.144e+06 cortex_a8: taps: 256 input: 4e+07 cpu: 4

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: WBX

2010-01-15 Thread Matt Ettus
On 01/15/2010 07:32 AM, John Ewan wrote: Another antenna to look at. http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/cgi-bin/commerce.exe?preadd=action&key=LPY41 Yes, that one is actually designed by the same person as the one we sell. We could carry it as well if there were enough demand. Matt _

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:11:38PM -0500, Tom Gross wrote: > Following up on my previous email, thinking about this some more: > > I'm guessing that we are sending the USRP2 more data than it can > handle, it is sending pause packets back, which when RX is ON, the > ethernet card recognizes and sl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] M-block integration status

2010-01-15 Thread Ben Gear
Hi Eric, Great to have an update on how the new features are progressing. m-blocks and the replacement features have been mentioned a few times on this mailing list in relation to building TDMA MACs. Having VRT metadata available in gr blocks is going to give access to timestamps for Rx samples;

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Tom Gross
We've tried it with and without a switch - definitely better without the switch. Thinking about our setup the behavior actually makes sense to me, although I'm waiting to discuss it with my signal processing guru. two usrp2s, connected with a mimo cable. the slave is just getting its clock from