[Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC] We're in!

2014-02-25 Thread Martin Braun
Hi everyone, I'm very happy to announce that GNU Radio was accepted as a mentoring org for GSoC 2014, and I'm looking forward to many great projects! Next step is the students-get-to-know-us phase. Then, starting March 10, we're accepting proposals from students. A word of advice to all

[Discuss-gnuradio] HRPT receiver

2014-02-25 Thread Pablo Fernández Alonso
Hello, I was wondering if someone can receive hrpt images from NOAA satellites or similar, if so, could you help me with the implementation of the receiver? There is not quite information about that format, so if you could help me I would really appreciate it.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Google Summer of Code 2014 applicant : Optimization with VOLK

2014-02-25 Thread Martin Braun
On 02/24/2014 09:33 PM, Abhishek Bhowmick wrote: Firstly, congratulations on being accepted as a mentor organization. Thanks for the pointers to gr-atsc and gr-80211. I have started looking there as a starting point. Are there similar modules which are undergoing volk speedup fixes? I had

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] HRPT receiver

2014-02-25 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi Pablo, Googling Noaa image format instantly yielded: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NOAA_APT_Frame_Format.gif http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/hrptformat.html It's already been done a few times - for example like this (really just googling GNU Radio NOAA image decode and clicking the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] HRPT receiver

2014-02-25 Thread Patrik Tast
Hi Pablo, We are receiving 24/7 HRPT sample images http://www.poes-weather.com/sample-hrpt.html Dish: 1.5 m (parabolic) Elevation over Azimuth rotor, made in FI POES-Weather Ltd Downconverter LO 1557 MHz (or why not use DBSRX and a 1.7 GHz LNA + some filter if needed) USRP1 + TVRX (or 2) or an

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] HRPT receiver

2014-02-25 Thread Patrik Tast
Hi Marcus, APT is (analogue) FM BW ~35-40 kHz and HRPT BW 3 MHz digital. Using a RTLSDR to receive APT can also be found here using windows http://www.poes-weather.com/rtl-sdr/ and howto build a good antenna (RHCP) @ 137 MHz here http://www.poes-weather.com/download/jm-dca/ Patrik On Tue,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] HRPT receiver

2014-02-25 Thread Patrik Tast
Hi Marcus, APT is (analogue) FM BW ~35-40 kHz and HRPT BW 3 MHz digital. Using a RTLSDR to receive APT can also be found here using windows http://www.poes-weather.com/rtl-sdr/ and howto build a good antenna (RHCP) @ 137 MHz here http://www.poes-weather.com/download/jm-dca/ Patrik On Tue,

[Discuss-gnuradio] broken gnuplot

2014-02-25 Thread Nemanja Savic
Hi all guys, lately I have experienced some problems with showing scope and fft plot. Namely, the plots looks raw and ugly. Once there was an report that gnuplot was killed. Any idea how to check and repair this? Best, -- Nemanja Savić ___

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] broken gnuplot

2014-02-25 Thread Martin Braun
On 02/25/2014 12:49 PM, Nemanja Savic wrote: Hi all guys, lately I have experienced some problems with showing scope and fft plot. Namely, the plots looks raw and ugly. Once there was an report that gnuplot was killed. Any idea how to check and repair this? Are you using gnuplot? What

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Google Summer of Code 2014 applicant : Optimization with VOLK

2014-02-25 Thread Bogdan Diaconescu
Hi Abhishek, When implemented gr-dvbt (https://github.com/BogdanDIA/gr-dvbt) I used VOLK in many places to speed-up the processing. However, there is a great deal of speed-up that still need to be achieved on both Tx/Rx in order to lower cpu cycles consumption so there are a lot of challenges

[Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC2014 Turbo Equalizer

2014-02-25 Thread Jan Krämer
Hi everyone, I am a student at Communications Engineering Lab (CEL) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. I major in communication systems and I am currently doing my masterthesis on Parallel log-map decoders for manycore architectures. I am interested in participating in GSoC 2014. There

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] broken gnuplot

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Nemanja Savic vlasi...@gmail.com wrote: So, it is default installation. I use RHEL6. Some time ago I uninstalled numpy due to installation of new version of matplotlib (I don't know if this is important). Now my gui looks like this That's using wxPython, not

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Google Summer of Code 2014 applicant : Optimization with VOLK

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Bogdan Diaconescu b_diacone...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Abhishek, When implemented gr-dvbt (https://github.com/BogdanDIA/gr-dvbt) I used VOLK in many places to speed-up the processing. However, there is a great deal of speed-up that still need to be achieved on

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] broken gnuplot

2014-02-25 Thread Nemanja Savic
Is there any way to repair this, because one or two months ago, everything was ok? Or, is there any log where I can figure what is the exact problem? On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Tom Rondeau t...@trondeau.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Nemanja Savic vlasi...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] broken gnuplot

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Nemanja Savic vlasi...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to repair this, because one or two months ago, everything was ok? Or, is there any log where I can figure what is the exact problem? Well, since we don't know what you changed on your side, it's hard to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr::buffer::index_add Assertion failure

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Tommy Tracy II tj...@virginia.edu wrote: Dear community, Every now and then, when I execute my GNU Radio program, I get the following error. Has someone seen this before? It looks like a buffer access problem, but I'm not sure why it happens on and off

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Google Summer of Code 2014 applicant : Optimization with VOLK

2014-02-25 Thread Bogdan Diaconescu
Hi Tom, thanks for your answer. The point I was making was that at the moment of me writing the Viterbi code, I tried to use the available VOLK functions (multiplications, subtractions, etc) and the code was slower than using directly intrinsics. Implementing a new kernel for Viterbi decoder

[Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC2014 Turbo Equalizer

2014-02-25 Thread Achilleas Anastasopoulos
Just FYI, the gr-trellis has implementations of all these components you suggested. One interesting project is to take the core algorithms of gr-trellis (Viterbi and SISO) and make them threaded for multi-core (eg, by parallelizing forward/backward recursions, or by parallelizing using

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC2014 Turbo Equalizer

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Achilleas Anastasopoulos anas...@umich.edu wrote: Just FYI, the gr-trellis has implementations of all these components you suggested. One interesting project is to take the core algorithms of gr-trellis (Viterbi and SISO) and make them threaded for multi-core

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QT GUI Chooser not working

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Tom McDermott tom.mcdermo...@yahoo.com wrote: GRC v3.7.2.1-195-g19d111e2 // ubuntu 13.10 Using QT GUI range works fine, changing it to QT GUI chooser (Type = Integer) seems to fail (regardless of number of options), with the following error message:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC2014 Turbo Equalizer

2014-02-25 Thread Achilleas Anastasopoulos
Yes, I agree with Tom. A good starting point is the three or four core algorithms in gr-trellis/lib/core_algorithms.cc viterbi_algorithm, siso_algorithm, sccc_decoder pccc_decoder (and their _combined versions) Jan, let me know if you decide to work on these; I can provide some ideas if you are

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QT waterfall sink manual intensity

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Louis Brown rfe...@everestkc.net wrote: Is there way to manually scale the intensity of the QT waterfall sink, in other words, set the dynamic range and reference level like the WX sink? Adjusting the time axis with the scroll wheel alters the intensity axis,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] (GSoC) MIMO system

2014-02-25 Thread Karan Talasila
Hi Alick, Do you have an english copy of your thesis? I am looking to read up on MIMO implementation and try a few basic things on gnuradio. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Martin Braun martin.br...@ettus.comwrote: On 02/24/2014 05:08 PM, YiZiRui Zhou wrote: Hi Tom, As far

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC2014 Turbo Equalizer

2014-02-25 Thread Martin Braun
On 02/25/2014 04:39 PM, Achilleas Anastasopoulos wrote: Just FYI, the gr-trellis has implementations of all these components you suggested. One interesting project is to take the core algorithms of gr-trellis (Viterbi and SISO) and make them threaded for multi-core (eg, by parallelizing

[Discuss-gnuradio] QPSK over air

2014-02-25 Thread SOUTHCOTT, MARK A CIV USAF AFMC AFRL/RITC
I'm looking for an example of a higher-order modulation implemented successfully in GNU Radio with an SDR frontend. I've seen bpsk, GMSK, etc. implemented over a wireless channel, but I've only seen simulations of higher-order modulations. Could someone point me towards one or confirm that

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QPSK over air

2014-02-25 Thread Aditya Dhananjay
Hi Mark, The problem is that GNU Radio does not have equalizers that can perform sufficiently well for constellations such as 64-QAM. As far as I know, the only one present is a simple decision feedback equalizer. I'm working on implementing a few equalizers: a) 2D Triangulation, and b)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC2014 Turbo Equalizer

2014-02-25 Thread Michael Dickens
I know I could look to Google / do an internet search, but maybe asking here would be better.What is/are the -seminal- paper/s on parallel log-map-siso decoding? I implemented the non-parallel version of the log-map algorithm -way- back in 2001 on whatever the portable Mac was at the time

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QPSK over air

2014-02-25 Thread Martin Braun
On 02/25/2014 07:11 PM, SOUTHCOTT, MARK A CIV USAF AFMC AFRL/RITC wrote: I’m looking for an example of a higher-order modulation implemented successfully in GNU Radio with an SDR frontend. I’ve seen bpsk, GMSK, etc. implemented over a wireless channel, but I’ve only seen simulations of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QPSK over air

2014-02-25 Thread Martin Braun
On 02/25/2014 07:17 PM, Aditya Dhananjay wrote: Hi Mark, The problem is that GNU Radio does not have equalizers that can perform sufficiently well for constellations such as 64-QAM. As far as I know, the only one present is a simple decision feedback equalizer. I'm working on implementing

[Discuss-gnuradio] Bypassing CIC and half-band filter on N2x0

2014-02-25 Thread Juha Vierinen
Is there any way to bypass the CIC and the HBF on the USRP N200 to just stream decimated (no integration) real samples off the 100 MHz ADC? I'd like to eg., record every 25th sample arriving on the ADC. I'd like to avoid compiling my own fpga is necessary. Is there any configuration of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Discuss-gnuradio Digest, Vol 135, Issue 30

2014-02-25 Thread Germano
Dear Martin, Thanks for the suggestion, makes sense to me. I'll try an higher level (different) approach and then consider making changes on the block. Germano On 02/25/2014 05:01 PM, discuss-gnuradio-requ...@gnu.org wrote: With the stock behaviour, it's not possible. If you want to change

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC2014 Turbo Equalizer

2014-02-25 Thread Achilleas Anastasopoulos
Mike, there are roughly 3 ways you can parallelize these algorithms: 1) packet-level: run a lot of codewords at the same time 2) subblock level: divide each codeword into pieces (overlapping) and run SISOs on each one of them in parallel 3) trellis level: do ACS operations in parallel take a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QPSK over air

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Martin Braun martin.br...@ettus.com wrote: On 02/25/2014 07:17 PM, Aditya Dhananjay wrote: Hi Mark, The problem is that GNU Radio does not have equalizers that can perform sufficiently well for constellations such as 64-QAM. As far as I know, the only one

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Google Summer of Code 2014 applicant : Optimization with VOLK

2014-02-25 Thread West, Nathan
On Sun, 2/23/14, Abhishek Bhowmick abhowmic...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] Google Summer of Code 2014 applicant : Optimization with VOLK To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Date: Sunday, February 23, 2014, 8:52 AM Hello, I have completed a Bachelor's

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] broken gnuplot

2014-02-25 Thread Nemanja Savic
Thank you Tom. I try tomorrow. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Tom Rondeau t...@trondeau.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Nemanja Savic vlasi...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to repair this, because one or two months ago, everything was ok? Or, is there any log where I can

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Google Summer of Code 2014 applicant : Optimization with VOLK

2014-02-25 Thread West, Nathan
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:37 PM, West, Nathan n...@ostatemail.okstate.edu wrote: On Sun, 2/23/14, Abhishek Bhowmick abhowmic...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] Google Summer of Code 2014 applicant : Optimization with VOLK To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Date:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QPSK over air

2014-02-25 Thread Ron Economos
Only half of the solution, but there's a fully functional 64-QAM transmitter for bladeRF here: https://github.com/argilo/gr-qam It implements the North American CATV standard ANSI/SCTE07 also known as ITU-T J.83 Annex B. We're just using cable ready TV's as receivers. Ron On 2/25/2014 10:11

[Discuss-gnuradio] OOT Decimation Module dropping data samples

2014-02-25 Thread Michael Berman
I am seeing some odd behavior with an OOT decimation block. What I am seeing is chunks of data are being dropped down to noise for random calls of the work function in my OOT. To observe this happening, I tee'd off the connection going into my OOT module and went strait into a file sink and then

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-audio OSX fixes test branch

2014-02-25 Thread Michael Dickens
Another update to https://github.com/michaelld/gnuradio/tree/fix_gr_audio_osx : + the audio source should be working fully now; I've tested with both the built-in mic and a FUNcube Dongle Pro (not Pro+) and device selection works and sample rates are correct; + audio source devices can be

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QT waterfall sink manual intensity

2014-02-25 Thread Louis Brown
I'm using just the waterfall sink. The spectrum is slightly oversampled so I see the decimation filter roll off to -170 dB and the edges, thus I'd like to set the intensity minimum at the passband noise floor which is up at -100 dB. The auto scale always catches -170 dB at the edges. I'll

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-audio OSX fixes test branch

2014-02-25 Thread Kevin Reid
On Feb 25, 2014, at 19:06, Michael Dickens michael.dick...@ettus.com wrote: Another update to https://github.com/michaelld/gnuradio/tree/fix_gr_audio_osx : ... If you want do use MacPorts to test out these changes, here's what I recommend you do: Thanks for including the instructions;

[Discuss-gnuradio] Summit on SDR

2014-02-25 Thread sumitstop
Dear Group, We are doing a multi-disciplinary faculty summit in Gr. Noida on 8th March'14. Wireless communication is also one of the parallel tracks. Sole purpose of the summit is to create awareness about SDR and recent trends in wireless communications. There will be demonstration of SDR40 by

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Google Summer of Code 2014 applicant : Optimization with VOLK

2014-02-25 Thread Abhishek Bhowmick
Thanks everyone. These are quite a few pointers, I will spend some time digesting it all. So there are really two approaches, large complex kernels on one hand and AVX2/AVX/FMA on the other, or a combination of the two. I guess I should propose identifying and implementing larger complex kernels