Hi Abhinav,

This sounds really interesting!

Are you using RF or ultrasound out of interest, to grab emissions from the
SMPS?

cheers

Chris

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:35 AM, abhinav narain <abhinavnarai...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am trying to make a covert communication channel using SMPS noise
> generated by the processor as a part of my research.
>
> I see a change in frequency emitted by the processor when I run the
> following loop (http://pastebin.com/uRghLuLm) with message variable
> containing the message, and see the spectrogram (
> http://postimg.org/image/g0ec0nvqj/full/), with fluctuating red points
> ~60kHz, indicating the change due to a loop and sleep executed on the
> processor.
>
> I want to decode the bits and I think I should use FSK, although I lack
> understanding to configure the details.
> The following is the current flowgraph where I have used bandpass filter
> to narrow down the signal to ~60kHz and using quadrature block to
> demodulate.
>
> Since the entity of interest is actual SMPS noise of the laptop adapter
> instead of a sinosoid, I have no clue how to write a clear decoder after
> looking at some tutorials of GNU Radio to know the symbol rate etc for the
> clock recovery algorithm.
>
> I would be grateful, if someone can guide me on how to proceed
>
>
> Thanks,
> Abhinav
>
>
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