Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Phase demodulation

2011-10-11 Thread William Cox
Could you elaborate on this statement? BTW, the fine point above is that you cannot set theta_hat(t)=arg(r(t)), because this assignment does NOT satisfy the BW constraints of your initial signal theta(t) or theta_hat(t). Are you saying that theta_hat(t) should be quantized, and therefore not

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tunnel.py exception

2011-04-21 Thread William Cox
I've recently been using tunnel.py for 1/2 hr tests with no problems. I'm using the basic_tx/rx boards with a low frequency (5 MHz) and 1 Mbit datarate. On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:31 AM, David Barton david.barto...@yahoo.comwrote: I am working with two USRPS wired connection with 25 dB

[Discuss-gnuradio] how long is the averaging length of the SNR estimator?

2011-04-05 Thread William Cox
Looking at the documentation for gr_probe_mpsk_snr_c ( http://gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/classgr__probe__mpsk__snr__c.html), it says it computes a running average of the signal mean/variance. How long is this running average? Meaning, if my SNR is changing over time, how much will past values affect

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: questions on SNR estimation from digital-bert examples

2011-04-01 Thread William Cox
the experimental results are so far off theoretical? Thanks. -William On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:52 PM, William Cox wc...@ncsu.edu wrote: Newbie here. I have some questions regarding the example programs under gnuradio-examples/python/digital-bert. I just ran a link and swept my signal power. I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: questions on SNR estimation from digital-bert examples

2011-04-01 Thread William Cox
somethings wrong, or that's close enough. Thanks. -William PS. I've made good use of your gstreamer streaming video program. Very helpful. Thanks! On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Alexandru Csete oz9...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:07 PM, William Cox wc...@ncsu.edu wrote: Here's

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] laser and infrared

2011-03-31 Thread William Cox
We're using the USRP+GNURadio to do passband modulation of a LED and/or laser. We run the signal from the Basic-TX daughterboard into an amp and a bias-t and then into the laser. At the receiver we take the output directly into the Basic-RX board. Works pretty well. On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:02

[Discuss-gnuradio] questions on SNR estimation from digital-bert examples

2011-03-29 Thread William Cox
Newbie here. I have some questions regarding the example programs under gnuradio-examples/python/digital-bert. I just ran a link and swept my signal power. I recorded the estimated snr and ber and I'm trying to plot them and verify things are working properly. Is the SNR estimation done at

[Discuss-gnuradio] tunnel.py printing string of Bs

2011-03-15 Thread William Cox
I'm trying to run tunnel.py on my Atom PC with a USRP 1 hooked up. I'm attemping to run it with a Fc of 4 Mhz and the standard values (Basic RX and LF Tx daughterboards). The terminal window is filling up with the B character and I can't determine a) why that's happening and b) where it's coming

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Yet another kick at the cheap-hardware can

2011-01-20 Thread William Cox
I don't know if this is kosher, but has anyone looked at the (vast array of) offerings from Comblocks (comblock.com)? They sell FPGA IP cores for all of their hardware, and it seems like it might be a good match for building a basic I/Q acquisition system. Here's a full product list:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] re: Low cost hardware option

2011-01-13 Thread William Cox
I like this discussion. Perhaps we could talk to the folks at http://www.oshwbank.org/ about helping sponsor the project (more details: http://antipastohw.blogspot.com/2009/03/introducing-open-source-hardware.html ) Another idea would be to do a Kickstarter campaign to raise some initial funds. A

[Discuss-gnuradio] always a spike on the FFT at the center frequency

2010-12-01 Thread William Cox
Whenever I run the userp_fft.py script (USRP1, Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10), there's almost always a large spike (10-20 db above the noise floor) at the center frequency. This is the same for all the daughter boards I've tried (WBX, LFRX, and BasicRX). Why is this? What am I missing? Thanks. -William

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DVB-T Modulation over low-end ATOM CPU

2010-11-26 Thread William Cox
That's awesome work Vince. Not being much of a programmer myself, do you plan on releasing any libraries that would help folks take advantage of this technique? Also, have you applied MA to demodulation? Thanks. -William On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Vincenzo Pellegrini

Re: [USRP-users] [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research Announcements -- Nov 2010

2010-11-22 Thread William Cox
We also will be making a formal announcement very soon about the USRP E100 and USRP E110 which will be embedded radio systems with 2 different sizes of FPGA. Can you give us any sneak-peek details on the Embedded system? What processor/form factor? I ask because I'm working on putting together a

[Discuss-gnuradio] least processor intensive modulation scheme

2010-11-17 Thread William Cox
Do the processor usage for the various mod/demod schemes change that much? Which scheme is the least processor intensive? Thanks! -William ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP underrun, overrun

2010-11-15 Thread William Cox
Are they related with a computational power? (CPU clock, RAM, running on VM?) Yes. What are you doing? It means a) the USRP wants samples and the PC is to slow in providing them or b) the USRP is sending samples and the PC is too slow in receiving them.

[Discuss-gnuradio] no suitable daughterboard found error on tunnel.py

2010-11-12 Thread William Cox
I'm fairly new to GNURadio. I have 2 USRP1 and two computers running Ubuntu 10.04. I have a LFTX and a LFRX in my boxes that I'm hooking to a laser comm. system. When I run: sudo python tunnel.py -f 10e6 I get the following: Requested TX Bitrate: 100k Actual Bitrate: 125k terminate called

[Discuss-gnuradio] file transmission with GRC question

2010-11-12 Thread William Cox
Howdy, I'm playing around with GRC and trying to transmit a file between two computers (based on Alex Csete's video streaming GRC code). Transmitter: USRP1 + LFTX GRC: File Source - Packet Encoder - GMSK - Const. Multiply - USRP sink Receiver: USRP1 + LFRX GRC: USRP Source - LPF - GMSK

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Basic analog USRP2 transmitter

2010-11-08 Thread William Cox
Do you have an oscilloscope? Is the transmitter actually transmitting? -William On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:00 PM, alexander levedahl alexanderleved...@gmail.com wrote: I have tried transmitting an analog signal from one USRP2 to another, but when I run usrp2_fft.py on the rx computer, there is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Basic analog USRP2 transmitter

2010-11-07 Thread William Cox
Alex, I know you're frustrated. But, let me make a few points: 1) As with a lot of things that seems complicated at first, some basic knowledge helps simplify things greatly. I'd suggest checking out a basic linux book at your library. Perhpas some others on the list can suggest some. 2) Linux

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Stack exchange site

2010-10-05 Thread William Cox
This sounds like a good idea. I voted for it. -William On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:38 PM, chris.cauley chris.cau...@oregonarc.comwrote: I'm looking to start a stack exchange site for gnuradio. I'm new to using gnuradio and I think this would be an excellent resource for asking questions on how

[Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio and multi core processors

2010-09-17 Thread William Cox
Howdy, How well does GNURadio + GRC play with multicore processors? I'm running a program that streams video on an Intel Atom-based processors and it's not really able to keep up. I was going to try out the dual-core Atom's if GNURadio would play nicely with it. Thanks. -William

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio and multi core processors

2010-09-17 Thread William Cox
and it handles just file processing high data rates. i5 and i7's have hyper threading, which give you 2x the cores... --- On *Fri, 9/17/10, William Cox wc...@ncsu.edu* wrote: From: William Cox wc...@ncsu.edu Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio and multi core processors To: GNU Radio Discussion

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio and multi core processors

2010-09-17 Thread William Cox
Er, that's cubic foot ... not inch :) -W On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:05 PM, William Cox wc...@ncsu.edu wrote: Dave, I'm trying to get this into as small a package as possible, because it's going underwater :) At 64lbs of buoyancy per cubic inch, every bit counts! -William On Fri, Sep 17

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Dimension of the y axis using usrp_oscope.py

2010-09-03 Thread William Cox
You'll need to read the datasheet for the ADC. It's a AD9862. From there you'll know the full range. I suspect is south of 3.3v as that's the boards power supply. An easier solution is to use a precision function generator and calibrate. Send in a known signal and see what the graph displays.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP, GNURADIO, WINDOWS, APPLICATION HELP

2010-09-02 Thread William Cox
Sam, Coming from a Windows user, I have to say that switching to Ubuntu was 1) extremely easy and 2) greatly accelerated my understand and ability to use GNURadio/USRP - mainly because I could use the GRC, which is a Labview-like graphical interface to GNURadio and USRP. I'd *highly* recommend

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Dimension of the y axis using usrp_oscope.py

2010-09-02 Thread William Cox
It will be completely dependent on your receiver chain. My understanding is that the values you are seeing are the output of the ADC, so you'll need to figure out what the voltages at that point are. Perhaps someone else can be more helpful, but you'll need to do the legwork. What receiver are you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] use of a bulletin board system in lieu of a mailing-list discussion

2010-09-02 Thread William Cox
Dan, Other than the difficulty of setting up and maintaining the site, I think it's a fabulous idea! Then again, I'm just as new as you are, but in general I think it would be *way* better. Especially for new folks jumping in and learning all the past body of knowledge. -William On Thu, Sep 2,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: making a small USRP board

2010-08-31 Thread William Cox
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[Discuss-gnuradio] adding a DC offset to the output of a LFTX

2010-08-31 Thread William Cox
I'm trying to add a DC offset to the output of my LFTX driven from a USRP 1. Is this possible progromatically? I edited my GRC block diagram to include adding a constant value to my complex stream, before inputting into the USRP sink block. I have a scope output at the same point, which shows

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: making a small USRP board

2010-08-30 Thread William Cox
off looking at the pysical board and thinking I didn't need half of it. -William On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Lin HUANG huanglin.b...@gmail.com wrote: Will it support FDD full duplex? I'd like to run OpenBTS on a smaller USRP. -Lin 2010/8/28 William Cox wc...@ncsu.edu: Yes, same

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: making a small USRP board

2010-08-30 Thread William Cox
: On Aug 30, 2010, at 6:52 AM, William Cox wrote: As of yet, I'm trying to figure out if reducing the size of the USRP1 baord, by removing one of the transceivers, is feasible. I'm a GNURadio/USRP newbie and I'm just going off looking at the pysical board and thinking I didn't need half

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: making a small USRP board

2010-08-30 Thread William Cox
, 2010, at 8:24 AM, William Cox wrote: Right now I'm thinking the easiest thing would be to keep everything the same, except remove the 2nd mixed-signal chip, and move the power circuit off the board. So, yes, same form factor for daughterboard connections. That seems like a lot of effort

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: making a small USRP board

2010-08-28 Thread William Cox
Yes, same functions, just smaller and only one rx/tx pair. -William On Friday, August 27, 2010, Abdalaleem Andy James Potter ajpot...@youdinar.com wrote: Would it have the same functionality? On 27 Aug 2010, at 22:05, William Cox wrote: I'm interested in making a much smaller USRP1 board

[Discuss-gnuradio] making a small USRP board

2010-08-27 Thread William Cox
I'm interested in making a much smaller USRP1 board. Has anyone tried this? I was planning on stripping out the 2nd AD9862 and the power supply circuit. Is there anything I should watch out for? Thanks. -William ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list

[Discuss-gnuradio] semi OT - data-aided SNR estimate of a complex signal in MATLAB/Octave

2010-08-23 Thread William Cox
I'm working on processing, in MATLAB/Octave, some data that I've taken with a communication device we've built. We're planning on moving to USRP/GNURadio, but before that happens, I've got to get this data processed. Previously we've done communication with an on-off-keying signal (OOK with a

[Discuss-gnuradio] how much attenuation for hooking USRP output to input?

2010-07-09 Thread William Cox
How much attenuation will I need in order to hook the Rx and Tx boards (Basic-XX or LFxx) on the USRP directly together? Thanks. -William ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: how much power can the BasicTX output?

2010-06-25 Thread William Cox
Sorry for the bump, but I'm confused about the output power of the BasicTX, especially in regards to 1 channel or both. Any thoughts? William On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:46 AM, William Cox wc...@ncsu.edu wrote: I'm getting conflicting info on how much power the BasicTX can transmit. Ettus FAQ

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FEC

2010-06-22 Thread William Cox
What's your received signal power? For instance, this guy (no idea if he's right) shows simulated GMSK BER curves with a 5e-3 BER anywhere from 8db - 14db depending on the bandwidth-time product:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrp_benchmark_usb.py failed max speed

2010-06-22 Thread William Cox
usrp_benchmark_usb.py is not particularly reliable as a benchmark per se. But, in general, if your system can't keep up with the usrp then you'll lose packets. Reducing the bandwidth is one way to prevent that from happening. Thomas Thomas, How would you recommend going about

[Discuss-gnuradio] how much power can the BasicTX output?

2010-06-21 Thread William Cox
I'm getting conflicting info on how much power the BasicTX can transmit. Ettus FAQ says, Yes, the BasicTX will put out about 1mW up to about 50 MHz. This post says it's, 0.5mW: http://old.nabble.com/question-about-BasicTX-td28010044.html When I use usrp_siggen.py with full amplitude, my sineway