Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to use USRP to detect and collect weak satellite signals

2013-09-04 Thread Mark McCarron
The majority of thermal noise enterimg the receiver is from the antenna and the path to the LNA. Freeze the antenna and this path, then you may be able to see GPS. Lookup the formula for MDS and it will give you an idea of the temperature you need. Then select a coolant. Thermal noise is ban

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bins smaller than pixels. was: WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-28 Thread Mark McCarron
to do the FFT at different resolutions. SETI do the same thing with the BOINC platform, only on a far greater scale. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 13:36:19 -0400 > From: j...@febo.com > To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bins smaller

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Noise levels from a RTL dongle

2013-05-24 Thread Mark McCarron
values, the interpolation would be essentially inventing the signal, rather than upsampling it. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 15:40:39 -0700 From: alankeithwoodw...@gmail.com To: Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] Noise levels from a RTL dongle Hi, I am new

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-17 Thread Mark McCarron
ecessarily faster than copying the processed version. In fact, under my caching asumptions, that would even be slower on a single core system. On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Mark McCarron wrote: Marcus, I was writing the Windows driver for Per Vices Corporation (Phi/Noctar) last

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd: Question about UHD driver

2013-05-17 Thread Mark McCarron
here is a fixed window in which to get all the processing done. Thus each stage needs to be optimized and that begins with I/O. We really should have some performance metrics for each block, so that when they are combined we have estimate of the total end-to-end time. Regards, Mark McCarron Da

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-17 Thread Mark McCarron
into memory and a pointer is returned. The FIFO buffer in an app makes use of this pointer. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 20:23:34 +0200 Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver From: master.of.knowle...@gmail.com To: mark.mccar...@live.co.uk CC: discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-17 Thread Mark McCarron
better to copy than to have a pointer. I can't agree with that. Regards, Mark McCarron From: johnat...@corganlabs.com Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 10:06:08 -0700 Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver To: mark.mccar...@live.co.uk CC: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org On Fri, May 17, 20

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-17 Thread Mark McCarron
hardware and architecture changes to implement properly. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 18:44:51 +0200 > From: master.of.knowle...@gmail.com > To: mark.mccar...@live.co.uk > Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver > > > I would tend to ag

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-17 Thread Mark McCarron
I would tend to agree, but if we do not outline what we require from manufacturers, we will never get it. I would seriously suggest writing a specification and submitting it to Intel, AMD, etc. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 18:04:37 +0200 > From: master.of.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-17 Thread Mark McCarron
defined solutions more cost effective. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 16:53:07 +0200 > From: master.of.knowle...@gmail.com > To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver > > Hi Mark, > > for currently availab

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
to manage FIFO streams within the app in relation to the initial input. As I said, I am still checking if this is possible, but when working with multiple branches that require independent copies of the data this would be best performing way to deliver the data. Regards, Mark McCarro

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
should be more efficient than memcopy. I am looking into DMA to see if this is possible. Regards, Mark McCarron From: m...@ettus.com Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 20:51:32 -0700 Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver To: mark.mccar...@live.co.uk CC: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org There

[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.

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] 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 o

[Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
ingle stream, which is then copied by the application? Or does it create two copies of the stream and allow each branch of the flow-graph to manipulate the data via pointers? I'm digging into DMA to see if this is possible, I would be surprised if there was a limitation here. Regards, Mar

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

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
quad core Win2012 server with 16GB ram. It seems like a bug in the build. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 13:02:09 -0400 From: mle...@ripnet.com To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance On 05/16/2013 12:41 PM,

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

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
very simple flow-graph. A USRP source and the WX FFT GUI block. If the settings are at 4096@15fps, it works fine, try anything higher and the windows greys out. So, I don't really see where the issue is. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 11:59:33 -0400 From: mle...@ripnet.c

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

2013-05-16 Thread Mark McCarron
GUI of the FFT becomes frozen. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 09:49:59 -0400 From: mle...@ripnet.com To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance Marcus, Sorry for the late reply on

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.

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

2013-05-15 Thread Mark McCarron
dth of one FFT-bin: 2.92969 Hz Equiv. noise bandwidth: 4.39453 Hz Max freq range: 0.0 Hz .. 96. kHz FFT window time: 0.341 s Overlap from scroll interval: 98.4 % It runs quite fast. If I provide the same FFT size to WX GUI FFT sink, it basically hangs. Do you know why? Regards, Mark McCa

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

2013-05-11 Thread Mark McCarron
I figured that one out, but why is the performance so poor? In other applications, I can push over half a million samples without causing issues. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 15:51:56 -0400 From: mle...@ripnet.com To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-11 Thread Mark McCarron
I have been using the WX GUI FFT Sink for a while now and I notice, regardless of the power of the machine, setting an FFT above 4096 causes it to effectively grind to a halt and UI become grey. Is this a python thing? Or is there a way to accelerate this block??? Regards, Mark McCarron

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Calculating the delay of TCP link.

2013-05-02 Thread Mark McCarron
, Mark McCarron Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 11:17:45 -0700 From: engrsajjadsaf...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Calculating the delay of TCP link. To: mark.mccar...@live.co.uk Actually i want to calculate the delay using the formula like Assuming all other factors as negligible.Here we have 1500

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Calculating the delay of TCP link.

2013-04-30 Thread Mark McCarron
figures will normally provide you with a robust service that exceeds expectation. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:40:07 -0700 From: engrsajjadsaf...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Calculating the delay of TCP link. To: mark.mccar...@live.co.uk Hi,Is it any way to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Calculating the delay of TCP link.

2013-04-29 Thread Mark McCarron
throughout the receive chain and processor, which are virtually impossible to measure accurately. Accurate measurements like for radar, or bearings are impossible without some form of time-stamp at the receiver and that would require an atomic clock chip. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Mon, 29

[Discuss-gnuradio] File Sources In Win32 Build

2013-04-26 Thread Mark McCarron
Hi, I have noticed that all the file sources in the latest stable and unstable Win32 builds are broken. It appears that the file path is not escaped properly. Is there any news on a fix for this? Regards, Mark McCarron