[Discuss-gnuradio] 2 x MIMO Transmitter using USRPN210

2013-05-16 Thread Ramcharan M C
Hi I am trying to use two USRPN210 to transmit using 2 transmit antennas for MIMO,. I have successfully constructed a receiver using 2 USRPs with Reciever MIMO with 2 reciever antennas having a daughter board XCVR2450 using the freely available file multi_sampler.cpp .. I have been able to reci

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
Matt, My area of research is DSP and massive parallelism. Given the structure of GNU Radio, it is possible to know what data is required upfront. This opens up the possibility of a performance boost. I know how GNURadio works, it was discussed earlier when I raised this question. There is a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] NOAA antenna

2013-05-16 Thread Patrik Tast
Hi Marco, I tested it and I got it working http://www.poes-weather.com/rtl-sdr/ Patrik -Original Message- From: 2_...@libero.it <2_...@libero.it> Reply-to: "2_...@libero.it" <2_...@libero.it> To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] NOAA antenna Date: Thu, 16 May 2013

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-16 Thread Matt Ettus
Are you saying that it is better to always make copies of the data rather than just make copies when you need them? In any case, I think you misunderstand both how GNU Radio works and how UHD interacts with it. UHD provides a single copy of data to GNU Radio for two reasons -- first, that is the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
There is a performance issue with this. If your program needs to manipulate the raw data, but at the same time provide that raw data to another branch(es), a copy much be made. If this is the case, then it would make more sense to duplicate the data in parallel as it enters the system. This s

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-16 Thread mleech
On 16 May 2013 23:51, Matt Ettus wrote: > There is no need to create multiple copies. The consuming blocks are each given a pointer to the same data, and the memory is not freed until all the consuming blocks indicate they are done with it. > > Matt Also, the "contract" that work functions

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-16 Thread Matt Ettus
There is no need to create multiple copies. The consuming blocks are each given a pointer to the same data, and the memory is not freed until all the consuming blocks indicate they are done with it. Matt On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mark McCarron wrote: > I am wondering if the UHD driver

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Marcus, I have tested this under the Ubuntu LiveUSB on a couple of machine and the same problem occurs every time. Regards, Mark McCarron The problem stems from the fact that too much of the internal machinery in the wxGUI graphical sinks are computed in Python. For long FFTs, and even mod

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI Chooser

2013-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Can't find this info anywhere, does anyone know the format for the 'labels' section of this control? Regards, Mark McCarron The parameters within GRC are all required to be Python objects of some sort. In this, it takes a Python "list" of strings: ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E"] -- Marcus Leec

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] recommended DSP reading

2013-05-16 Thread Marc Newlin
Thank you for that information. R Lyons' books are just what I was looking for. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Martin Braun (CEL) wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 01:46:40PM -0700, Marc Newlin wrote: > > I'm looking for recommended reading to better by understanding of DSP. > I'm > > nearing th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI Chooser

2013-05-16 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 16/05/13 22:56, Mark McCarron wrote: Can't find this info anywhere, does anyone know the format for the 'labels' section of this control? They are strings. Something like: ["LABEL-1","LABEL-B","LABEL-3"] Iain ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list D

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] recommended DSP reading

2013-05-16 Thread Martin Braun (CEL)
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 01:46:40PM -0700, Marc Newlin wrote: > I'm looking for recommended reading to better by understanding of DSP. I'm > nearing the end of The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal > Processing, and have found it to be an excellent resource on the fundamentals. > I'm

[Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI Chooser

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
Can't find this info anywhere, does anyone know the format for the 'labels' section of this control? Regards, Mark McCarron ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-ctrlport and multiple applications

2013-05-16 Thread Alexandru Csete
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Alexandru Csete wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> Today, we can configure gr-ctrlport to use a specific port. Doing so >> leads to a problem when trying to execute more than one gnuradio >> application even if they ar

[Discuss-gnuradio] recommended DSP reading

2013-05-16 Thread Marc Newlin
Hello, I'm looking for recommended reading to better by understanding of DSP. I'm nearing the end of *The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing*, and have found it to be an excellent resource on the fundamentals. I'm hoping to follow it up with a book or two to with a deeper

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Dev Call May 16 / Google Hangout

2013-05-16 Thread Martin Braun (CEL)
The minutes are up on the wiki. Next time, we'll stream the call so that people who just want to listen in can do that without requiring a slot in the call. Cheers, MB On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:53:33AM -0700, Ben Reynwar wrote: > Looks like we get an increase to a 15 person limit if the person

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
Marcus, I have tested this under the Ubuntu LiveUSB on a couple of machine and the same problem occurs every time. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 13:48:01 -0400 From: mle...@ripnet.com To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I am wondering if the UHD driver has the ability to create multiple copies of the stream in memory??? Let's say I have a flow-graph that has two branches, the first pushes complex data to an FFT, whereas the second demodulates a portion of that data into AM. Does the driver supply a single s

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
I don't really care which GUI framework is used, just that it works. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 13:56:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance From: hilbert3...@gmail.com To: mark.mccar...@live.co.uk CC: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org One of the beauties

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DSP Book : Free as PDF

2013-05-16 Thread Ian Buckley
And since we are all very lazy: for (( i=1; i <= 34; i++ )); do wget "www.dspguide.com/CH${i}.PDF"; done On May 16, 2013, at 8:31 AM, Michael Dickens wrote: > Not sure if this has been mentioned here before, and it cannot hurt to > mention it again. The book "The Scientist and Engineer's Guid

[Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
I am wondering if the UHD driver has the ability to create multiple copies of the stream in memory??? Let's say I have a flow-graph that has two branches, the first pushes complex data to an FFT, whereas the second demodulates a portion of that data into AM. Does the driver supply a single stre

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-16 Thread Hilbert Transform
One of the beauties of open-source software is that if you don't like the way something works, or think it should be enhanced, you can take care of that yourself, and, hopefully, share the results with the community. If you don't have the necessary skils to do so, then you make your desires know

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Dev Call May 16 / Google Hangout

2013-05-16 Thread Ben Reynwar
Looks like we get an increase to a 15 person limit if the person who starts the hangout is using a google apps account. http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/11/larger-hangouts-in-google-for.html On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Martin Braun (CEL) wrote: > Quick reminder... if you want to jo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/16/2013 01:36 PM, Mark McCarron wrote: Marcus, Accurate output is great when doing analysis, but if you just want to create a quick interface that will allow you to see a little more detail, then overlapping or duplicating the stream is fine. The error in the output is always within a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
Marcus, Accurate output is great when doing analysis, but if you just want to create a quick interface that will allow you to see a little more detail, then overlapping or duplicating the stream is fine. The error in the output is always within a given tolerance and that can be suitable for a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/16/2013 12:41 PM, Mark McCarron wrote: Marcus, Thanks for highlighting the limitations of the current implementation. It explains a lot. Personally, I would like to see a little more emphasis on useful GUI elements, not just accurate GUI elements. So, you'd rather see fast updates of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
Marcus, Thanks for highlighting the limitations of the current implementation. It explains a lot. Personally, I would like to see a little more emphasis on useful GUI elements, not just accurate GUI elements. In regards to the WX GUI FFT window not responding. I have tested it with a very

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DSP Book : Free as PDF

2013-05-16 Thread Evan Merewether
Seems to me that Lyon's book is only available from file sharing servers which seems to me to be a copyright violation. Even his blog page (http://www.dsprelated.com/blogs-1/nf/Rick_Lyons.php) sends you to sites to purchase from. But I did find some other free online resources: http://dspguru.com/

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DSP Book : Free as PDF

2013-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
What is the link to Lyon's book? Evan Merewether - 575-640-5582 I don't have it off the top of my head, but I'm sure Google knows... -- Marcus Leech Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org ___ Discuss-

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Marcus, Thanks, that would explain the slow updates that I was seeing. Perhaps an overlapped FFT would be useful for interactive scenarios. Has one been implemented? I think they're implementing an overlapped-FFT option for the QtGUI sinks for "next". Not sure. The thing about overlapped d

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DSP Book : Free as PDF

2013-05-16 Thread Evan Merewether
What is the link to Lyon's book? Evan Merewether - 575-640-5582 -Original Message- From: discuss-gnuradio-bounces+evan=syndetix@gnu.org [mailto:discuss-gnuradio-bounces+evan=syndetix@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Marcus D. Leech Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:36 AM To: discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
Marcus, Thanks, that would explain the slow updates that I was seeing. Perhaps an overlapped FFT would be useful for interactive scenarios. Has one been implemented? This, however, does not explain why my windows are not responding. After about 8 seconds, the window turns to grey and the GU

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DSP Book : Free as PDF

2013-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Not sure if this has been mentioned here before, and it cannot hurt to mention it again. The book "The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing" by "Steven W. Smith, Ph.D." is available online as PDFs for free here< http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm>; you have to download

[Discuss-gnuradio] DSP Book : Free as PDF

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Dickens
Not sure if this has been mentioned here before, and it cannot hurt to mention it again. The book "The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing" by "Steven W. Smith, Ph.D." is available online as PDFs for free here < http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm >; you have to download

[Discuss-gnuradio] Something for "next" in the GUI area

2013-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
The ability to set your own axis-labelling function for the FFT display would be useful for certain types of applications where the frequency is actually interpreted as something else--like doppler shift, for example. I'm thinking that you could pass a function that takes the generated list

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] NOAA antenna

2013-05-16 Thread 2_...@libero.it
Thank you guys for yours responses. @Coppens: you have a nice websites (: Just one thing: I must found another e-shop, because my favourite(tayda) doesn't have all component.. @Tast: In your opinion, could your antenna work with ezcap tuner without pre- amp? By, Marco Ribero __

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Marcus, Sorry for the late reply on this, I've been upgrading my hardware and I'm just catching up. Here is my issue, in Spectrum lab if I provide a FFT Input length of 65536 on a 192Ksps stream, I get the following characteristics: Effect of FFT settings with fs= 192.000 kHz: Width of one

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] new block style instructions doubt

2013-05-16 Thread Martin Braun (CEL)
Nemanja, first note that we're in the middle of moving to 3.7. So things will definitely be out of sync. However, those two docs describe two different things: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 01:30:43PM +0200, Nemanja Savic wrote: > In the following link: > http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Dev Call May 16 / Google Hangout

2013-05-16 Thread Martin Braun (CEL)
Quick reminder... if you want to join the dev call, make sure you have the plugin installed, your mic works (and doesn't echo), and you're in IRC by 1700 UTC to make sure you don't miss anything. MB On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:57:19PM +0200, Martin Braun (CEL) wrote: > This Thursday, May 16, we wi

[Discuss-gnuradio] Requesting for suggestion to transmit Signal in 2 x 2 MIMO network

2013-05-16 Thread RAM CHARAN M C
Hi Everyone I am trying to 2 x 2 MIMO using USRPN210.. Until now I have successfully constructed a receiver using 2 USRPs having a daughter board RFX2400 using the freely available file multi_sampler.cpp .. I have been able to recieve the signals synchronously with zero phase off

[Discuss-gnuradio] new block style instructions doubt

2013-05-16 Thread Nemanja Savic
Hi all guys, I have just been reading instructions for makin new fashion signal processing block, and I have a certain doubt: In the following link: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/BlocksCodingGuide you can see for example this in public header file: namespace gr { namespac

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Regarding on the new OFDM implementation.

2013-05-16 Thread Martin Braun (CEL)
Hi Alex, On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:13:16PM -0500, Alex Zhang wrote: > It is excited to see the new OFDM implementation has been merged and test in > the GNURadio master branch. Several Questions: > > 1. What are the main changes from the old design? The biggest differences are the increased mod

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
Marcus, I have run some tests and it looks like the WX GUI FFT Sink stops responding with any settings above 4096@15 FPS. I've upgrade my video card drivers and they work fine with everything else. Processor usage is fine, nothing in the event logs. Regards, Mark McCarron From: mark.mccar..

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Allign LOs for SBX boards

2013-05-16 Thread Josh Blum
On 05/16/2013 02:38 AM, Dominique Guelord Ingala wrote: > Hi, I need to allign the LOs for SBX boards. I read the application > notes on UHD-Synchronization. > > > http://files.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/sync.html#align-los-in-the-front-end-sbx-wbx-n-series > > I've been working on this fo

[Discuss-gnuradio] Allign LOs for SBX boards

2013-05-16 Thread Dominique Guelord Ingala
Hi, I need to allign the LOs for SBX boards. I read the application notes on UHD-Synchronization. http://files.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/sync.html#align-los-in-the-front-end-sbx-wbx-n-series I've been working on this for a while, but I'm still confused a bit. Please what is the directory

[Discuss-gnuradio] Can I make USRP switch between speaking and muting?

2013-05-16 Thread 周崴
I want to send one ofdm symbol then mute during one symbol, and loop in that way. I have tried to make the second symbol to be all 0+0j in baseband. But the output remains an output noise which is not as low as requied. I think the RF always output something even if the baseband gives him 0+0j.