Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TPB Scheduler - Block Scheduling Rate

2011-01-28 Thread Michael Dickens
On Jan 28, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Ben Hilburn wrote: > As I understand it, there is code in the GNURadio scheduler stuff that > manages block scheduling, to some degree. > > I'm aware of the kernel's role in switching between the threads > themselves, but I was under the impression that block schedulin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TI vs Freescale DSP for open-source development

2011-01-28 Thread Jeff Brower
Don- > Hi Jeff: interesting reply. I remember when TI and MOT did exactly the > opposite. TI had the 9900 processor series that was much better than > anything on the market, and essentially blew it off. MOT had the > 6800/68000 series, that became moderately successful. The most crippled > proces

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Radio Telescope Receiver

2011-01-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Hello All, I'm currently an undergraduate engineering student at Grand Valley State University. For my senior design project, I'm working on designing a SDR-based radio telescope to compliment the NASA RadioJove project (a direct conversion receiver for use in radio astronomy). In a nutshel

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TI vs Freescale DSP for open-source development

2011-01-28 Thread Don Latham
Hi Jeff: interesting reply. I remember when TI and MOT did exactly the opposite. TI had the 9900 processor series that was much better than anything on the market, and essentially blew it off. MOT had the 6800/68000 series, that became moderately successful. The most crippled processor of the time,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Spectrum distortion in wideband OFDM samples

2011-01-28 Thread Matt Ettus
On 01/28/2011 02:44 PM, Per Zetterberg wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 02:09 -0500, Sangho Oh wrote: Hello, I am transmitting 20Mhz OFDM symbols using UHD code. When I checked the PSD of the received samples using UHD (rx_samples_to_file) I found there is a significant difference in PSD between the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Spectrum distortion in wideband OFDM samples

2011-01-28 Thread Per Zetterberg
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 02:09 -0500, Sangho Oh wrote: > Hello, I am transmitting 20Mhz OFDM symbols using UHD code. > When I checked the PSD of the received samples using UHD > (rx_samples_to_file) > I found there is a significant difference in PSD between the > transmitted and received signal. > >

[Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Radio Telescope Receiver

2011-01-28 Thread Phil Behnke
Hello All, I'm currently an undergraduate engineering student at Grand Valley State University. For my senior design project, I'm working on designing a SDR-based radio telescope to compliment the NASA RadioJove project (a direct conversion receiver for use in radio astronomy). In a nutshell, th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TI vs Freescale DSP for open-source development

2011-01-28 Thread Jeff Brower
Alexander- > okay here are my 2 cents > > 2- TI actually offers all the tools you need to develop for their DSP for > free, I can vouch for the C64x+ DSP since > that's what I have experience using. You can download and look at the > supported DSP for the free download from > http://software-d

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 transmission issues

2011-01-28 Thread Matt Ettus
On 01/27/2011 03:44 AM, nyquist82 wrote: Hi!! I am trying to transmit a complex signal with the USRP2+WBX system. First I tried transmitting from file, an 8MHz band recorded with the USRP2, by connecting the "from file" block to the USRP2 transmitter, with and appropriate interpolation. When vis

[Discuss-gnuradio] UHD graph for simple FFT

2011-01-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Here's a simple UHD FFT flow-graph that is reasonably dynamically-configurable: http://www.srbac.org/files/uhd_fft.grc Cheers -- Marcus Leech Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org ___ Discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Quick-and-dirty GNU Radio (Geeko powered!)

2011-01-28 Thread Gregor Dschung
Hello, When you build GNU Radio for the first time successfully (after twenty times calling ./configure, until you have all the dependencies), you get a sense of pleasure. Maybe, this initial overhead is desired, as it prevents the community from noobs without the iron will of getting GNU Rad

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TPB Scheduler - Block Scheduling Rate

2011-01-28 Thread Ben Hilburn
As I understand it, there is code in the GNURadio scheduler stuff that manages block scheduling, to some degree. I'm aware of the kernel's role in switching between the threads themselves, but I was under the impression that block scheduling, was at least in some part, influenced by GNU Radio. If

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TPB Scheduler - Block Scheduling Rate

2011-01-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/27/2011 03:57 PM, Ben Hilburn wrote: > Hey all - > > I'm running some experiments, and would like to directly tune the rate > that the TPB scheduler is switching between blocks. I've dug around a > bit, and can't seem to find the relevant portions of code; I've never > looked at this part of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TPB Scheduler - Block Scheduling Rate

2011-01-28 Thread Almohanad Fayez
I've been down this path before Ben and I can tell you it's a very dark and lonely path, biggest advice is to use GDB my preference is to use DDD. I personally found it easier to start tracing from the python source file there's a way where you can select the PID of your python process from G

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TI vs Freescale DSP for open-source development

2011-01-28 Thread Almohanad Fayez
okay here are my 2 cents 2- TI actually offers all the tools you need to develop for their DSP for free, I can vouch for the C64x+ DSP since that's what I have experience using. You can download and look at the supported DSP for the free download from http://software-dl.ti.com/dsps/dsps_regis

[Discuss-gnuradio] Details on the initialization sequence

2011-01-28 Thread Gabriel Morel
I'm looking for details about the initialization process of the FPGA as the order of lightsand their meanings. I studied the verilog files and significance of signal configurations. I think the CPLD program the FPGA and the FPGA turns on a light, the configuration signal DONE at the end of th

[Discuss-gnuradio] Question about an OFDM-USRP2 decoder

2011-01-28 Thread Juan Ramon Gutierrez
Hello, I've been using the IEEE 802.11a/g/p OFDM encoder developed by the FTW group (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2009-11/msg00211.html) and, in my humble opinion, I think that it's a great contribution to the GNU Radio community. I also consider that it would be nice to co

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TI vs Freescale DSP for open-source development

2011-01-28 Thread Brian Padalino
Hi Alexander, On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Alexander Chemeris wrote: > 2) Development tools price > Both Freescale CodeWarrior and TI Code Composer seem to be at the same > line with about $2K per single license (correct me if I'm wrong - I > may have missed something easily). > > Big minus

[Discuss-gnuradio] TI vs Freescale DSP for open-source development

2011-01-28 Thread Alexander Chemeris
Hello all, We're working on an open-source WiMAX receiver/scanner and we're looking into using a high-performance DSP to process data from USRP. Right now we implement this processing in FPGA, but we want to experiment with DSPs too. I know there are skilled people here and I'm looking forward to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP E100 login: Ethernet and USB?

2011-01-28 Thread Miok Wah
Hi Philip, I see. We used a powerless USB cable. That's very likely to be the reason why the PC doesn't recognize it. We'll try externally powered USB cable once we get one. Thank you for your help. Philip Balister wrote: > > On 01/27/2011 01:36 PM, Miok Wah wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> We

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP E100 login: Ethernet and USB?

2011-01-28 Thread Philip Balister
On 01/27/2011 01:36 PM, Miok Wah wrote: Hello list, We got the USRP E100 and tried to log in via the USB console, following the instructions in: http://code.ettus.com/redmine/ettus/projects/usrpe1xx/wiki/FAQ However, the USRP E100 is not detected according to dmesg. And our PC host does not e

[Discuss-gnuradio] LD_LIBRARY_PATH root question

2011-01-28 Thread Patrik Tast
Hi All, I use fedora 9-13. I've setup the USERNAME/.bashrc to point at python and other shared libraries, all works fine as USERNAME. My question is: If I login as USERNAME, then in terminal su root and start a GR py it will fail due to it can't find some libraries (boost). I must always do an

[Discuss-gnuradio] TPB Scheduler - Block Scheduling Rate

2011-01-28 Thread Ben Hilburn
Hey all - I'm running some experiments, and would like to directly tune the rate that the TPB scheduler is switching between blocks. I've dug around a bit, and can't seem to find the relevant portions of code; I've never looked at this part of GNURadio before, and the gruel / boost mix is slightl

[Discuss-gnuradio] Receiving 2 separate frequencies on same daughterboard RFX2400

2011-01-28 Thread Arya Santini
Hi All, I have a USRP1 with one RFX2400 daughterboard attached to it. I want to know if I can do this: Can I receive two signals (real) on two RX frequencies, say 2.35 GHz and 2.75 GHz, simultaneously? Thanks, Arya ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list D

[Discuss-gnuradio] Compiling GNURadio on openembedded for USRP E100.

2011-01-28 Thread Miok Wah
Hello list, I compiled the uhd host code on USRP E100, and it took 2.5 hours. I guess compiling gnuradio directly will take 10x more times. So I am now trying to cross-compile it via open-embedded. It seems that openembedded already has the recipe for gnuradio. My question is: how to configur

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OSX gnuradio/uhd issue

2011-01-28 Thread Erik Darzins
Yes, I've noticed the same problem on Mac OSX using a USRP2 + WBX. I then ran the same tests on an Ubuntu Linux virtual machine (running on the same Mac) and using the same USRP2 configuration -- and the tests completed without error. Regard, Erik Darzins > Begin streaming 1000 samples, 3.0