I want to take an input stream of bytes in which only one LSB is relevant (e.g., the output of the GR GLFSR block) and pack these bits into bytes with k relevant bits. For example, I'd like to take a stream of raw bits generated by the GLFSR and feed them to an M-PSK modulator, which requires chunks with k=log2(M) bits. Unfortunately I haven't found this to be straightforward. There is no "pack_k_bits" module that I could find, so I tried using unpacked_to_packed_bb and packed_to_unpacked_bb. They are not working like I would expect. For instance, here's an example in Python:
... data = [1,0,1,0, 0,0,1,0, 1,1,1,0, 0,1,1,0] # 45 67 self.source = gr.vector_source_b(data, False, 1) self.pack = gr.unpacked_to_packed_bb(1, gr.GR_LSB_FIRST) self.unpack = gr.packed_to_unpacked_bb(2, gr.GR_LSB_FIRST) # stuff 2 bits into LSB of each output byte self.head = gr.head(gr.sizeof_char, 8) # should have 16/2 = 8 output bytes self.sink = gr.file_sink(gr.sizeof_char, "out.bin") self.connect(self.source, self.pack, self.unpack, self.head, self.sink) ... This gives the following: $ hexdump -C out.bin 0000000 02 02 00 02 03 02 01 02 |........| 0000008 But I would expect the following: 0000000 01 01 00 01 03 01 02 01 |........| 0000008 Notice that the two least significant bits are in reverse order. Any clue what's going on here? Thanks, Sean
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