Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Microwave Link Demodulation

2016-08-30 Thread Ihab Zine
Hi all, Thanks for the tips. ill go through them and come back to you soon. Best Regards Ihab On 29 August 2016 at 20:53, Ben Hilburn wrote: > Hi Ihab - > > I recommend checking out this paper on performance counters & ctrlport. > The dependency on `thrift` can be a bit painful, but these ar

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Microwave Link Demodulation

2016-08-30 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi Ihab, that's great!! So, I see that others already pointed out the very handy htop / top utilities, which can give you a rough idea of where the CPU is spent within the blink of an eye, as well as the far more involved, but also far more detailed controlport approach that can also tell you exa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Microwave Link Demodulation

2016-08-29 Thread Ben Hilburn
Hi Ihab - I recommend checking out this paper on performance counters & ctrlport. The dependency on `thrift` can be a bit painful, but these are great tools in GNU Radio for instrumenting your application and optimizing performance. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2013/papers/srif/p65.pdf

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Microwave Link Demodulation

2016-08-29 Thread Dave NotTelling
One way I check for bottlenecks it to run 'top -H' and watch the various threads. If you see any one thread pegged at 100% then it needs to be optimized. At least that's my method :) On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Ihab Zine wrote: > Hi Marcus, > > I have been through the GNU RADIO tutorials

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Microwave Link Demodulation

2016-08-29 Thread Ihab Zine
Hi Marcus, I have been through the GNU RADIO tutorials , I also dived into adapting gr-dvbt, and it worked for me. But how can i find out where my transceiver BER bottlenecks and where my computational bottlenecks come from? Is the a method or steps i can follow? I need some hints on this. Best R

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Microwave Link Demodulation

2016-08-24 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi Ihab > For frequency higher than 6 Ghz, a down converter can be used to over > come this problem. Exactly what we're saying! > I think it can handle this rate. Please correct me if i'm Wrong. You might be wrong! As said, this is a hard task, and it's very hard to make things scale up on many

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Microwave Link Demodulation

2016-08-24 Thread Ihab Zine
Hi Ron and Marcus, For frequency higher than 6 Ghz, a down converter can be used to over come this problem. for the data rate and bandwidth, the PC i'm using has the following specifications: Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order:Little

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Microwave Link Demodulation

2016-08-23 Thread Marcus Müller
Right, I should have mentioned that high rates are very CPU-intense. In fact, it's not seldom that getting 50MS/s into a PC and processed occupies a single CPU core completely. After all, we're talking about 1.6 Gb/s in pure samples, before they're even converted to what likely is floating point,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Microwave Link Demodulation

2016-08-23 Thread Ron Economos
Agree with all of Marcus' comments. However, the 150 to 326 Mbps requirement may be quite difficult. To put things in perspective, my run of the mill 3 GHz E5-1607 Xeon x86 processor can just barely decode 16QAM DVB-T at 16 Mbps. You'll probably need a high-end CPU with as many cores as you can

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Microwave Link Demodulation

2016-08-23 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi Ihab, > 1) Frequency range: 1.5 - 38 GHz since the B205 mini only goes up to 6 GHz, you're bound to use an external mixer. The device you chose for that will completely depend on your specific application's needs. Also note that finding something that works as well at 1.5 GHz as it does on 38

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Microwave Link Demodulation

2016-08-23 Thread Ihab Zine
Hi Ron, 1) Frequency range: 1.5 - 38 GHz 2) Bandwidth range : 2 - 56 MHz 3) Modulation : Qpsk - 256 QAM 4) Data rate range : 150Mbit/s - 326Mbit/s. 5) Error correction method : i thinks it is FEC. Ihab On 22 August 2016 at 12:33, Ihab Zine wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm working on a project usin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Microwave Link Demodulation

2016-08-22 Thread Ron Economos
You need to be more specific. 1) Frequency 2) Bandwidth 3) Modulation 4) Data rate 5) Error correction method Ron On 08/22/2016 04:33 AM, Ihab Zine wrote: Hi All, I'm working on a project using GnuRadio And USRP 205 mini, i'm at the stage where i need to demodulate a microwave link signa

[Discuss-gnuradio] Microwave Link Demodulation

2016-08-22 Thread Ihab Zine
Hi All, I'm working on a project using GnuRadio And USRP 205 mini, i'm at the stage where i need to demodulate a microwave link signal. Anyone has an experience with Microwave link or tried to do something similar? Is it possiable to do it in gnuradio? or is there another approaches to do it? I'