Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] G U Radio Companion : Implementing DQPSK modultation

2011-02-07 Thread Steven Clark
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Varun Krishnamurthy < varun.sumkr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi , > > > I am new to GNU Radio and am facing difficulties in implementing DQPSK > modulation on Gnu Radio Companion. The system works fine , but for one small > glitch. The DQPSK modulator/demodulator's inpu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio and CUDA reprised

2011-01-12 Thread Steven Clark
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Michael Dickens wrote: > On Jan 12, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Moeller wrote: > > On 12.01.2011 14:25, Michael Dickens wrote: > >> the CPU). I think that if a GPU can be used, it will be most effective > in things like filterbanks, or when searching for packets (via their

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio and CUDA reprised

2011-01-12 Thread Steven Clark
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Moeller wrote: > On 11.01.2011 23:13, Andrew Hofmaier wrote: > > I've begun to look into accelerating GNURadio applications with Nvidia > CUDA GPU's > > and have scanned through the archives of the discussion list. I had two > > questions on the topic: > > > > 1.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] help -- how to implement transmitting periodic on/off tones

2010-11-29 Thread Steven Clark
> Think of the on/off part as a control stream consisting of 1's and > 0's. Generate the control stream, and multiple the control stream by > the carrier stream. > > Don't try to start and stop the graph or anything like that from > python. > > You can probably generate the control stream with a >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Received signal is DANCING

2010-11-18 Thread Steven Clark
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Songsong Gee wrote: > I am now building a flow graph for ASK modulation,during the test, > > Here is my flow graph, > http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/-4xnI_UgFeSNENH3UGHgxw?feat=directlink > > And this is the result plot, > http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidths< 400Khz no longer work with USRP2

2010-11-17 Thread Steven Clark
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 11/17/2010 12:43 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > >> >> >> What I'm seeing is that the magnitudes (as seen in the number sink) coming >> off the source, even with roughly 75dB of gain ahead >> are roughly 0.002 to 0.003 when I'm using 400

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP problems (interpolation, decimation, sampling rate, frequency)

2010-11-17 Thread Steven Clark
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Songsong Gee wrote: > I use two USRPs. One sends a sinusoidal signal, and the other receives it. > > A flow graph and a result are here > flow graph: > http://lh5.ggpht.com/_byQV8nmc5FA/TOOTX9ReSYI/AQk/hWJ9Kf5GcAA/s800/%EC%8A%A4%ED%81%AC%EB%A6%B0%EC%83%B7-1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help: usrp tune not working in wbx daughter board

2010-11-16 Thread Steven Clark
be i can implement in a > different way , but i cant as imy system > has become bigger now.Please guide me if you have any means to solve my > problem > i want to see "line" variable to show me the tuned frequency the moment i > tune to that frequency. > > Than

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help: usrp tune not working in wbx daughter board

2010-11-13 Thread Steven Clark
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:19 AM, ton ph wrote: > Hi everyone, >As I was trying to tune usrp from my python thread, I am not able to use > my thread to tune the USRP. I am trying to tune using my python function, > > def tune_usrp(ms,freq): > print "Tuning to frequency : "+str(freq) >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DBSRX coherent problem (Phase Noise)

2010-11-12 Thread Steven Clark
> > The second image shows the plot of the two real components of the same 128 > samples. > The phase shift is so large it is visible in the plot. I > I noticed that the tuned frequency is about 12 kHz off target, but this is > within the expected spec. of the system. > > > http://old.nabble.com/f

[Discuss-gnuradio] No UHD Devices Found (USRP1)

2010-11-11 Thread Steven Clark
I just did a fresh git checkout and install of UHD as described here: http://ettus-apps.sourcerepo.com/redmine/ettus/projects/uhd/wiki http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/build.html Everything appears to go smoothly, but ./uhd_find_devices reports: linux; GNU C++ version 4.4.4 20100630 (Red

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] segmentation fault (core dump) -- help needed

2010-11-08 Thread Steven Clark
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Thomas H Kim wrote: > Steven, > > Thank you very much for your email. > I installed Fedora Core13 x86_64, instead of i386, which I installed on > last Friday and it works now. But, I don't understand because i386 should > work on 64bit machine (that was what I've

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] segmentation fault (core dump) -- help needed

2010-11-08 Thread Steven Clark
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Martin Braun wrote: > > Even in an old version, this should not happen. However, if you do have > an old version, I recommend upgrading to at least 3.3.0 and trying > again. Once it works, you'll simply have much more fun (read: > functionality) with a newer GNU Ra

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] precise transmit scheduling

2010-11-04 Thread Steven Clark
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Yan Nie wrote: > Dear all, > > I am developing a transmitter on USRP1 with LFTX daughterboard. This > transmitter sends a BPSK modulated Barker code sequence up-converting to a > frequency ranging from 1MHz to 20MHz. I implemented the transmission of the > whole se

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC question: How to measure BER when Tx and Rx are on different machines?

2010-11-02 Thread Steven Clark
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Rachel Li wrote: > Hi all: > > I have Tx and Rx on different machines. To measure the BER, I need to > compare the a reference stream and the output stream of the demodulator. > > I suspect that my way to obtain the reference stream is wrong. > > Here is how I obta

[Discuss-gnuradio] Freq. hop techniques

2010-11-02 Thread Steven Clark
Hi all- I got a simple form of frequency hopping working without too much trouble, by having a free-running flowgraph in thread A, while thread B periodically retunes the flowgraph's USRP output. This seems to work fine. Now, what are some techniques to use if I want to introduce dead time to the

[Discuss-gnuradio] UHD readiness level?

2010-11-01 Thread Steven Clark
Hi all- Any estimate as to the readiness level of the UHD driver? (if open-source has such a concept...) Back in April they were called "pre-alpha". How are things progressing? Do you recommend use of it yet to people whose day-job would (lamentably) prefer they be productive? :) As a checklist,

[Discuss-gnuradio] Quick WBX question

2010-10-31 Thread Steven Clark
The 100mW transmit spec, is that at +0dB gain, or at +25dB gain (max)? ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] [SOLVED] Re: multi usrp, 1 odd channel, HW problem?

2010-10-28 Thread Steven Clark
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Steven Clark wrote: > Hi all- > > I have a multi-usrp setup with 2 USRP 1s and 4 WBX daughtercards. I have > performed the clock synching described here: > http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/1/MultiUsrp > > I'm doing 4-channel receive,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] multi usrp, 1 odd channel, HW problem?

2010-10-26 Thread Steven Clark
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Steven Clark wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Matt Ettus wrote: > >> >> Probe R201 on all 4 WBX boards with an oscilloscope while running. One >> side of the resistor is ground and the other side is the reference clock. >&

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] multi usrp, 1 odd channel, HW problem?

2010-10-20 Thread Steven Clark
; frequency and phase. > > Matt > > > On 10/14/2010 09:13 AM, Steven Clark wrote: > >> Hi all- >> >> I have a multi-usrp setup with 2 USRP 1s and 4 WBX daughtercards. I have >> performed the clock synching described here: >> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wi

[Discuss-gnuradio] multi usrp, 1 odd channel, HW problem?

2010-10-14 Thread Steven Clark
Hi all- I have a multi-usrp setup with 2 USRP 1s and 4 WBX daughtercards. I have performed the clock synching described here: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/1/MultiUsrp I'm doing 4-channel receive, using a power splitter to send the same CW signal into all 4 d'cards, and tuning them all identic

[Discuss-gnuradio] RX Mux value with dissimilar d'cards, USRP1

2010-10-12 Thread Steven Clark
Hi- Is it possible to receive simultaneously from 1 WBX card, and 1 BasicRX card, on the same USRP1? Attempting this with GRC gives: "Cannot compute dual mux when mixing quadrature and non-quadrature subdevices" I understand that the WBX is quadrature while the BasicRX is not, so this should requ

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] help with "safe" and "clean" band

2008-06-12 Thread Steven Clark
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Mihail L. Sichitiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm brand new at this GNU Radio thing, so please forgive me if my question > has a "well-known" answer. I'd like to try out some performance tests on a > few modulation schemes, so I need a clean band

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Documentation

2008-06-11 Thread Steven Clark
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Firas A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > New USRP Documentation (Whenever I become sick and stay at home, I use my > time to write some GnuRadio documentation). > > I hope from Gnuradio experts to examine this document and send to me a > corrected informati

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: SVN Compile Error Under Cygwin: Omnithread Stuff

2008-06-10 Thread Steven Clark
> > The latest patch and instructions on how to use it are given in the wiki at > http://www.gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/CygwinInstallMain. > > Be sure to do the "./bootstrap" after applying the patch. > > With any luck, this should be the last release to have this problem. > > -- Don W. > Don- Many t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Posted: Enhanced GMSK demodulator

2008-06-06 Thread Steven Clark
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Long, Jeffrey P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven- > > Did you actually find that the decision threshold needs to be biased? I > actually implemented the 2 bit differential detector on a custom asic > that was targeted at streaming audio(in 2004) and during the >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Posted: Enhanced GMSK demodulator

2008-06-06 Thread Steven Clark
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:56 AM, isaacgerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ive noticed that the papers you cited only take in "real" data and not > "complex." Is this true? Is this true for your implementation? > > Isaac I think they do in fact take in complex. How would one do a 90deg phase shift

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gsm gmsk demodulation

2008-06-06 Thread Steven Clark
> On 6/6/08, Bob McGwier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> This is not my professional experience. The sounding data is used to find >> the channel and then the data symbols are soft detected through a "viterbi >> equalizer" in every implementation I am aware of that is any good at all >> with the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Posted: Enhanced GMSK demodulator

2008-06-05 Thread Steven Clark
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Steven Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] >> It should be a >> drop-in replacement for the existing demodulator in designs, except >> t

[Discuss-gnuradio] Standardized indentation?

2008-06-05 Thread Steven Clark
I noticed that many gnuradio files (gmsk.py for example) contain an unholy mix of spaces and tabs for indentation. Is there any easy way to standardize our indentation? Many text editors can make it so hitting tab creates 4 spaces instead of the tab character. (I like 4 spaces per indent, what ab

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Posted: Enhanced GMSK demodulator

2008-06-05 Thread Steven Clark
> > Steven, > > If you were to generate a patch that had your demodulator show up as a > new demod called, say, gsm_demod_alt2 that hooked it into the existing > framework with this new name, we could add it to the tree and it would > get more testing without having to overwrite the known implemena

[Discuss-gnuradio] Posted: Enhanced GMSK demodulator

2008-06-05 Thread Steven Clark
I've added a link to http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/Enhanced_GMSK_Demodulator from http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/OurUsers Summary: [...] offers an enhanced GMSK demodulator that I believe to be superior to the GNURadio standard gmsk demodulator. It should be a drop-in replacement for the existing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gsm gmsk demodulation

2008-06-05 Thread Steven Clark
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:45 AM, isaacgerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > Concerning GSM GMSK demodulation, due to the ISI, I initially thought many > folks were using the Viterbi algorithm on the waveform to demodulate it > properly. After doing some lit review, I am finding that this is no

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: mblock make failure under Cygwin

2008-05-27 Thread Steven Clark
> > It looks like you are missing a patch (attachment:"makefiles6975.patch, > listed on the Cywin wiki page) needed to include the mblock library in the > link of qa_inband_usrp_server. > > -- Don W. > Thanks for the reply. I did in fact try to apply both patches that are mentioned on the page, bu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Modulation problem ?

2008-05-23 Thread Steven Clark
> I haven't found information for simple_framer/simple_correlator inputs and > outputs and have no idea where my "ValueError: source and destination data > sizes are different" problem comes from. Any hints would be appreciated! > > Thank you for your help! > > Irene Make sure you know what type o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Modulation problem ?

2008-05-20 Thread Steven Clark
adio has a unpacked_to_packed block for this purpose. On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:53 PM, irene159 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Steven Clark-2 wrote: >> >> This is not surprising. It is likely that you are getting some initial >> garbage (non-standard-ascii characters) comi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Modulation problem ?

2008-05-19 Thread Steven Clark
This is not surprising. It is likely that you are getting some initial garbage (non-standard-ascii characters) coming out, or that you have some bit errors. Don't open it in gedit. Try: python f = open('Resultat.txt') d = f.read() f.close() print(len(d)) print(d) (or if d is really long, print(d[:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] a call for a better wiki

2008-05-01 Thread Steven Clark
Apologies for the necromancy, but I would like to help by adding an item or two to the FAQ section. How do I get a trac account? -Steven ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Distribution of USRP gain

2008-04-28 Thread Steven Clark
A certain daughtercard can support 0-70dB of gain, and the main-board A/D chip can do 0-20dB of gain. If I request 50dB of gain from software, how does this get distributed between these two locations? Is one used preferentially over the other? ___ Dis

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Segmentation fault

2008-03-10 Thread Steven Clark
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Manav Rohil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am getting segmentation fault with the following... > > src_data = (0xff,) > src = gr.vector_source_b(src_data,False) > #expected_results = (1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0) > op = gr.packed_to_unpacked_bb(1, gr.GR_MS

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Msg Queues and Watcher Threads

2008-03-05 Thread Steven Clark
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Steven Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like the use of the watcher thread in pkt.demod_pkts, and was > wondering if I could use a similar technique in the following > situation: > > Two disconnected subgraphs: > msg_sourc

[Discuss-gnuradio] Msg Queues and Watcher Threads

2008-03-04 Thread Steven Clark
I like the use of the watcher thread in pkt.demod_pkts, and was wondering if I could use a similar technique in the following situation: Two disconnected subgraphs: msg_source_1 -> transform_blk_1 -> msg_sink_1 msg_source_2 -> modulator The user places 'm'-byte messages in msg_source_1. tr

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: new to GNU radio

2008-03-04 Thread Steven Clark
No USRP, no problem. Here is an example of what you want (taken from http://noether.uoregon.edu/~jl/gmsk/gmsk-test.py) # Mix to IF lo = gr.sig_source_c(sample_rate, gr.GR_SIN_WAVE, lo_freq, 1.0, 0) mixer = gr.multiply_cc()

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: new to GNU radio

2008-03-04 Thread Steven Clark
If you are using the USRP, it handles all the conversion to and from carrier frequency. The data going across the USB bus is generally complex baseband. You instruct the USRP what the carrier frequency should be: #Set freq if not(usrp.tune(self.usrp_out, 0, self.out_dcard, tx_freq)

[Discuss-gnuradio] Anybody using FEC?

2008-02-27 Thread Steven Clark
Has anybody had any luck using any form of Forward Error Correction in GNU Radio in a streaming context? I'm hoping to compare notes / techniques. -Steven ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Combining gr.trellis and mod_pkt

2008-02-06 Thread Steven Clark
> Your msg_source, which is a gr.message_source, is blocked, waiting for > new messages to arrive. In order to allow the second block chain to > exit, you need to send it a message that causes it to unblock. The > flowgraph scheduler thread that is running this chain will then see > the indication

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Combining gr.trellis and mod_pkt

2008-02-05 Thread Steven Clark
On Jan 31, 2008 1:13 PM, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:49:50AM -0500, Steven Clark wrote: > > Pardon the bump. Maybe I should simplify the question: > > > > With the packet modulator, is it possible to run the packet payload > &

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Combining gr.trellis and mod_pkt

2008-01-31 Thread Steven Clark
Pardon the bump. Maybe I should simplify the question: With the packet modulator, is it possible to run the packet payload bits through any kind of flow-graph/block during the rx_callback? On Jan 27, 2008 6:39 PM, Steven Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'lo all. > > I woul

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question: using gr_float_to_complex

2008-01-30 Thread Steven Clark
Should Rx1 be a vector_source_f rather than a vector_sink_f? -Steven On Jan 29, 2008 10:17 PM, Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I have this problem with using gr_float_to_complex. I wanted to connect two > sptr types wherein one contains floats while the other is an sptr type o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP digital I/O

2008-01-28 Thread Steven Clark
I asked the same thing a year or so ago, didn't get much of an answer. AFAIK, there are no software hooks for the digital I/O pins. What we ended up doing was editing the verilog such that the sign of the real component sent to the BasicTX dboard came out on 1 I/O pin, and the sign of the imag com

[Discuss-gnuradio] Combining gr.trellis and mod_pkt

2008-01-27 Thread Steven Clark
'lo all. I would like to place code in the rx_callback of the packet mod architecture that takes each received payload and runs it though gr.trellis's viterbi decoder. Should this be possible? It seems like I'd have to set up, run, and tear-down a flowgraph or top-block in the duration of the cal

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] splitting bits

2008-01-10 Thread Steven Clark
> You might be able to run unpacked_to_packed followed by > packed_to_unpacked to get what you want. It's ugly, but you don't > have to write any code ;) > > pack = gr.unpacked_to_packed_ss(2, gr.GR_MSB_FIRST) > unpack = gr.packed_to_unpacked_ss(1, gr.GR_MSB_FIRST) > > Eric > Aha! Shame on me

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] splitting bits

2008-01-10 Thread Steven Clark
0, 1) rather than: (1,0,1,1,0,1) *bang head on keyboard in search of enlightenment* On Jan 10, 2008 4:51 PM, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:43:17PM -0500, Steven Clark wrote: > > Hey folks- > > > > Let's say I have a str

[Discuss-gnuradio] splitting bits

2008-01-10 Thread Steven Clark
Hey folks- Let's say I have a stream of shorts whose values are one of [0,1,2,3] (in other words, the bottom 2 bits are active). I want to split these bits, so that: [2,3,3,1,0] -> [1,0,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,0], etc. What block(s) can help me achieve this? ___

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Calculate SNR

2007-11-10 Thread Steven Clark
This article might be helpful. It's targeted at matlab, but easily transferable to python. http://www.transcrypt.com/resources/all/files/19388/_fn/bit-error-rate_simulation_using_matlab.pdf On Nov 10, 2007 11:15 AM, Meenaktchi Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 9, 2007 11:46 AM

[Discuss-gnuradio] Forward Error Correction in GNURadio

2007-10-29 Thread Steven Clark
I'm just trying to gather information about what types of FEC are currently available in GNURadio. A quick scan of directories shows me: Reed-Solomon (no changes in 4 years) Trellis / Viterbi (created by Achilleas?) Are there any others? (could we maybe reorganize them into a unified /fec/ direct

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Strategy advice

2007-10-23 Thread Steven Clark
On 10/18/07, Johnathan Corgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One approach then would be to ensure this never happens, i.e., add a > small epsilon to each input stream, and make epsilon small enough to not > sufficiently impact the results for "typical" input values. Normalizing > the conjugate prod

[Discuss-gnuradio] gr.head, and flushing of file sinks

2007-10-23 Thread Steven Clark
1) Has anybody ever noticed a case where gr.head doesn't seem to limit the amount of data that flows through it? I have (some data source) -> (head) -> (file sink), and sometimes the writing to the file shuts off appropriately, other times it seems to skip over the limit and would happily consume m

[Discuss-gnuradio] Strategy advice

2007-10-18 Thread Steven Clark
All- I was hoping I could get some advice on what is a good block-design strategy for the following problem. I have two streams of complex samples coming in. I want a block or sequence of blocks which outputs the cosine of the phase difference between the two input streams. If we could assert th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Improvements made to GMSK demod

2007-10-16 Thread Steven Clark
1)) self.connect(self.mult, self.c2f) self.connect((self.c2f, 0), self.pre_cr_filt, self.sub, self.clock_recovery, self.slicer, self) ----- Original Message - > > *From:* Steven Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* gnuradio mailing list > *Sent:* Monday, October 15, 200

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Improvements made to GMSK demod

2007-10-16 Thread Steven Clark
On 10/15/07, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How does it do with say, 2 samples/sym ? > > A quick run @ 2 samp/sym gave: Old recv... xcorr offset: 8 num bits compared: 499987 num bit errors: 1275 BER: 0.00255006630172 Old recv plus... xcorr offset: 16 num bits compared: 499979 num bi

[Discuss-gnuradio] Improvements made to GMSK demod

2007-10-15 Thread Steven Clark
All- I've made some improvements to the built-in GMSK demodulator, based mostly on Simon & Wang's "Differential Detection of Gaussian MSK in a Mobile Radio Environment". Also see "Differential Detection of GMSK Using Decision Feedback", Yongacoglu, A.Makrakis, D.Feher, K. The intermediate

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] hier_block2 syntax question

2007-09-24 Thread Steven Clark
, self.nop, self.delay, (self.mult, 0)) self.connect(self.nop, (self.mult, 1)) self.connect(self.mult, [other stuff here], self) This runs without complaint, but doesn't seem like any data is getting through... On 9/24/07, Johnathan Corgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &

[Discuss-gnuradio] hier_block2 syntax question

2007-09-24 Thread Steven Clark
hi all- Quick question about syntax for connecting components inside a hier_block2... Let A = hier_block2's input Let's say I want a mult inside that multiplies A and a delayed version of A together. self.delay = gr.delay(gr.sizeof_gr_complex, 2*self._samples_per_symbol) #2T delay

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bug in gr_quadrature_demod_cf, or scheduler?

2007-09-21 Thread Steven Clark
As an arbitrary example, symbol rate 7812.5 sym/sec: have the usrp decimate by 256 and you're still at 32 samp/sym. What is the best way to partition decimation between hw and sw? Which sw blocks are ideal for this? On 9/21/07, Matt Ettus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steven C

[Discuss-gnuradio] Bug in gr_quadrature_demod_cf, or scheduler?

2007-09-21 Thread Steven Clark
Hi all- please look at this sequence of eye diagrams: http://picasaweb.google.com/steven.p.clark/GMSKFmdemodGlitches These are from a gmsk mod/demod pair, showing the output of the TX's gaussian filter (blue) overlaid with the output of the RX's fmdemod (red). BT = 0.35. At 8 samples per symbol,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Packet mod/demod race condition?

2007-09-19 Thread Steven Clark
ete. I have no problem with leaving this sleep in, I just thought this might be indicative of something that needs to be looked at. Tom- good to hear from you again. Hope school is going well. -Steven On 9/18/07, Johnathan Corgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steven Clark wrote:

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Packet mod/demod race condition?

2007-09-16 Thread Steven Clark
Pardon the bump...anyone have any ideas? On 9/13/07, Steven Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all- > > I am testing out the blks2.mod_pkts & blks2.demod_pkts with something > similar to what is in the benchmark_loopback example, only I do not use the >

[Discuss-gnuradio] Packet mod/demod race condition?

2007-09-13 Thread Steven Clark
Hi all- I am testing out the blks2.mod_pkts & blks2.demod_pkts with something similar to what is in the benchmark_loopback example, only I do not use the USRP at all. Basically, I am transfering the contents of one audio file to another by way of a mod/demod packet chain, and hoping to see the sam

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Trunk check-in dependency file breakage

2007-08-29 Thread Steven Clark
It seems that this change has broken GRC (complains about non-existent gr.runtime). Josh, is there an ETA on a fix for this? Any short-term work-arounds in the meantime? -Steven On 8/27/07, Johnathan Corgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have recently checked in the updates to the hierarchical

[Discuss-gnuradio] ubuntu install, make check fails on test_mblock

2007-08-24 Thread Steven Clark
Hi all- I'm following the instructions at http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/UbuntuInstall. Hardware is an HP/Compaq nc6230 laptop. Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn uname -a gives: 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Install seemed to go smoothly, but make check fails on the test

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] swig question

2007-05-25 Thread Steven Clark
Brett- I am also very interested in wrapping a C-based FEC library. Could you please keep us updated with your progress? Thanks. -Steven On 5/25/07, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:07:09PM -0500, Brett L. Trotter wrote: > Brett L. Trotter wrote: > > I've mad

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrp_sink_s and other quick questions

2007-05-22 Thread Steven Clark
gnuradio community. Thanks for the support. -Steven On 5/22/07, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:19:58PM -0400, Steven Clark wrote: > If I need pin-level access to the DAC chip, sink_s is my only option AFAIK. > I understand that it's in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrp_sink_s and other quick questions

2007-05-21 Thread Steven Clark
If I need pin-level access to the DAC chip, sink_s is my only option AFAIK. I understand that it's interleaved I&Q, don't worry about that. My original questions remain. On 5/21/07, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:48:04AM -0400, Steven C

[Discuss-gnuradio] usrp_sink_s and other quick questions

2007-05-21 Thread Steven Clark
Hi all- Several quick questions. 1) For usrp sink_s, which bit of the short activates the MSB of the DAC chip? I.e., if I send 0bABCDEFGH IJKLMNOP, where each letter is either a 1 or a 0, which letter matches the MSB? 2) If I want to generate a stream of alternating zeros and ones (stored in byt

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP digital output hack

2007-05-09 Thread Steven Clark
es to it. You need to set permissions so the open will work Echo "Hello World" > /dev/ttyS0 should send a byte stream out to the first serial port on the machine. You can use "stty" to set the port speed and other parameters. Se "man stty" or just "stty --help&q

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP digital output hack

2007-05-08 Thread Steven Clark
Hi all- I've been desparate lately for a way to stream data from GNURadio back out to the hardware world without turning the data into an analog signal via the USRP's DAC. For example, if I have a software demodulator outputting bits (1 bit per byte, as done via a slicer in many of the examples),

[Discuss-gnuradio] FPGA .rbf file

2007-05-08 Thread Steven Clark
Hi all- I noticed that both the usrp.source and usrp.sink blocks have the ability to specify the .rbf bit file for the FPGA. Does that mean that in the following: self.usrp_in = usrp.source_c (fpga_filename="file_A.rbf") self.usrp_out = usrp.sink_c (fpga_filename="file_B.rbf") Only file_B ha

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to display mux value?

2007-05-08 Thread Steven Clark
(Sorry for sending this twice, Pawel, I forgot to send to list. Also I corrected a minor error I made) Hi Pawel- You've probably figured this out by now, but I ran into the same thing yesterday. Here's what I did. in_mux_value = usrp.determine_rx_mux_value(self.usrp_in, in_dcard_subdev_spec) pr

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] A medley of questions

2007-03-21 Thread Steven Clark
Using your perfect samples (the ones you get with decim=8), can you try low pass filtering them (without decimating) to the equivalent width that you'd get with the decim=256 setting, and then plotting them? Maybe it's not perfectly round because with the narrower filter, we're losing more of th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] A medley of questions

2007-03-14 Thread Steven Clark
kd4.jpg signal is going in to RX at -10dBm, default gain setting. On 3/14/07, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:47:20PM -0400, Steven Clark wrote: > Plots of USRP decimation woes: > input is GMSK waveform @ ~30ksym/sec, BT = 0.35, no noise added &g

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] A medley of questions

2007-03-14 Thread Steven Clark
Plots of USRP decimation woes: input is GMSK waveform @ ~30ksym/sec, BT = 0.35, no noise added using decimation rate of 16: http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4467/d16cz9.jpg top plot is complex baseband, bottom plot is amplitude of top plot some amplitude variations noticeable, but fairly minor.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] A medley of questions

2007-03-14 Thread Steven Clark
There is always an unknown phase between the transmitter and receiver. In addition, the clocks between the transmitter and receiver are never running at exactly the same frequency. FWIW, the oscillator on the USRP is spec'd to 50ppm. Eric GMSK is a constant amplitude modulation. So unless I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] A medley of questions

2007-03-14 Thread Steven Clark
Eric: many thanks for your responses. My responses below: On 3/14/07, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:45:32PM -0400, Steven Clark wrote: > Hi all- > Two very different questions for you: > > 1) As a test, I am sending a GMSK signal (c

[Discuss-gnuradio] A medley of questions

2007-03-14 Thread Steven Clark
Hi all- Two very different questions for you: 1) As a test, I am sending a GMSK signal (created by a signal generator, very low noise) at low symbol rates into the USRP and plotting the complex baseband that reaches the PC. One would expect to see a nice tight unit circle, and at low decimation r

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP pin sink

2007-02-15 Thread Steven Clark
Is it possible to use a spare pin on the USRP (say, for example, on a daughtercard) as a signal sink? In other words, if I have a char signal stream in software, in which only the bottom bit of the 8 bits is active, how do I get that bit back out into hardware-land? Many thanks for your time (ev

[Discuss-gnuradio] Bit Error Rate Testing?

2007-02-09 Thread Steven Clark
I have been experimenting with the gmsk demodulation block, and am able to successfully demod 50M+ continuous pseudorandom symbols at 2.0 MSym/sec. Kudos to the USRP + GNURadio devs for making that possible, and thanks for making GNU Radio open-source. The testing methodology so far has been to o

[Discuss-gnuradio] Quick Costas Loop question

2007-02-02 Thread Steven Clark
Is there any reason why the Costas carrier recovery loop used in the dqpsk.py example would not be suitable for similar use in a gmsk receiver? TIA -Steven ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/

[Discuss-gnuradio] gmsk strangeness

2007-01-12 Thread Steven Clark
'lo all. We are trying to use the USRP with the new gmsk demod block, and are encountering some weirdness. To generate our GMSK signal, we are using an Agilent signal generator. BT=0.35, 125 ksymbols/sec, 2 samples/symbol, with a PN15 as the data source. We load the produced slicer.dat into Matl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Trouble building under cygwin

2006-11-22 Thread Steven Clark
You are right, I was using a newer w32api (3.8-1). Thanks for your help! -Steven On 11/21/06, Don Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The trouble is occuring during the installation of wxPython. I know this is "just" a GUI environment, but I'd still like to get it working. I get to step 6 of http

[Discuss-gnuradio] Trouble building under cygwin

2006-11-21 Thread Steven Clark
Hello all- I'm new to GNU Radio, and was trying to get a development environment set up in windows using Cygwin, in order to play with a USRP. I'm matching http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/CygwinInstallMain as closely as I can. The trouble is occuring during the installation of wxPython. I know thi