Hello Ben,

Shantharam, my colleague, installed the latest UHD image. Now I don't see
the 1 MHz frequency offset any more. The benchmark_rx program is also
receiving packets correctly from the benchmark_tx code.

Thanks a lot for your help. We really appreciate your effort.

Nazmul

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Ben Hilburn <b...@ettus.com> wrote:

> Nazmul -
>
> Your version of UHD is from November 22nd.  Will you try updating your UHD
> install?
>
> I'm not sure how you installed, or how familiar you are with git / Linux
>  - here is a quick command list, assuming you used Git to checkout the code
> to begin with, and it is in a directory called uhd.git/
>
> $ cd uhd.git
> $ git checkout master
> $ git remote update; git pull
> $ rm -rf build
> $ mkdir build; cd build
> $ cmake ../ && make
>
> Let us know how it goes!
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Nazmul Islam 
> <mnis...@winlab.rutgers.edu>wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply, Jason. The uhd_usrp_probe --version command gave
>> the following result:
>>
>> linux; GNU C++ version 4.4.5; Boost_104200; UHD_003.004.000-71810ad
>>
>> 003.004.000-71810ad
>>
>> Do I have to download the latest UHD image? The image that I am using
>> right now was downloaded by one of my colleagues and I think that he did it
>> recently.
>>
>> Also, I tried running the benchmark_tx and benchmark_rx codes with a 1
>> MHz frequency offset input, i.e., I gave the following commands:
>>
>> ./benchmark_tx.py -f 2.4G -r 1M -m gmsk -a "addr = 192.168.10.2"
>>
>> ./benchmark_tx.py -f 2.401G -r 1M -m gmsk -a "addr = 192.168.10.2"
>>
>> Since the uhd_fft.py and the my lab spectrum analyzer show a 1 MHz
>> frequency offset, I assumed that the above commands would work.
>> Unfortunately, this did not help either!
>>
>> Suggestions will be very appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nazmul
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Jason Abele <ja...@ettus.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 06:39:24PM -0500, Nazmul Islam wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I am running the benchmark_tx.py codes and looking at the spectrum of
>>> the
>>> > signals using uhd_fft.py. I am using the latest image of GNU radio
>>> > (GNUradio 3.5) and I have XCVR2450 daughterboards. I ran the
>>> > benchmark_tx.py code in three transmitter nodes and surprisingly, all
>>> of
>>> > them are transmitting with 1 MHz frequency offset! I have attached two
>>> > screenshots with the email (I hope that they go through). I give the
>>> > following input parameters to run the benchmark_tx code.
>>> >
>>> > ./benchmark_tx.py -f 2.4G -r 1M -m gmsk -M 10 -a "addr = 192.168.10.2"
>>> >
>>> > Both uhd_fft.py and the spectrum analyzer of my laboratory show that
>>> the
>>> > received signal is centered at 2.401 GHz. I varied the frequency to
>>> 2.45
>>> > GHz, 2.41 GHz, but this 1 MHz frequency shift persists.
>>> >
>>> > When I run the benchmark_rx.py code at the receiver nodes, they don't
>>> > receive/detect any packets (due to the frequency offset, I guess). I
>>> even
>>> > tried to run the transmitter at 2.4 GHz and the receiver at 2.401 GHz.
>>> > However, that did not help either!
>>> >
>>> > I will try to modify the control loop gain parameters using Tom's blogs
>>> > suggestions and see if that helps. However, I am really surprised to
>>> see
>>> > how all three different transmitter nodes can transmit with almost
>>> exactly
>>> > 1 MHz frequency offset. Any suggestion will be appreciated.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Can you tell us which version of UHD you are using?
>>> (uhd_usrp_probe --version)
>>>
>>> We have heard reports of such an issue and my best guess is that it was
>>> related to an accidental swap of I and Q in the XCVR2450 transmitter
>>> code.  This went in after the 3.3.2 release and is fixed on latest UHD
>>> master since 837437c65ce36d418cceb3df5b093f9497b3af5f
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Muhammad Nazmul Islam
>>
>> Graduate Student
>> Electrical & Computer Engineering
>> Wireless Information & Networking Laboratory
>> Rutgers, USA.
>>
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Muhammad Nazmul Islam

Graduate Student
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Wireless Information & Networking Laboratory
Rutgers, USA.
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