[Discuss-gnuradio] multiple tabs

2011-02-27 Thread ranjini ram
hi

thanks for the reply,but i want some paramters to be specified in one tab
and some other in other tab.is it possible? pls do help.

Ranjini

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Sivaramakrishnan B C <
maverick2...@gmail.com> wrote:
Use the notebook block under "misc" caegory in grc.

Siva

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:46 AM, ranjini ram  wrote:
hi

can anybody help me out in creating multiple tabs in a single output
window.eg.one tab indicating RF spectrum second IF spectrum and so on..

Thanks in advance
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Build error GNU Radio release v3.3.1git-971-ga02bb131

2011-02-27 Thread Jared Harvey
Hello Arya,

AS> I  was  trying  to  build  the gnuradio on yet
AS> another  machine  running  Ubuntu  10.10. from
AS> source  today  after  checking  out the latest
AS> code from the dev trunk:

I see Ubuntu 10.10 has native packages. Is there a
reason why you need to compile it? Perhaps you are
looking for the latest and greatest.

Youmay   have   dependency   problems.   These
dependencies  may  be  resolved  by installing the
native packages. Perhaps you can open Synaptic and
install  the  native  gnuradio that way and see if
that helps your compile process.

Best regards.

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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Build error GNU Radio release v3.3.1git-971-ga02bb131

2011-02-27 Thread Arya Santini
Hi Jared, thanks for that suggestion.

Anyway, I realized that I was using GNU compiler gcc-4.6
(experimental) which apparently imposes stricter rules and allows
package builds to fail where previous versions used to succeed. So the
suggested fix for one typical "ptrdiff_t does not name a type" is
#include , which I did in the
/usrp/host/swig/python/usrp_prims.cc file, and the build completed to
success.

Arya

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Jared Harvey  wrote:
> Hello Arya,
>
> AS> I  was  trying  to  build  the gnuradio on yet
> AS> another  machine  running  Ubuntu  10.10. from
> AS> source  today  after  checking  out the latest
> AS> code from the dev trunk:
>
> I see Ubuntu 10.10 has native packages. Is there a
> reason why you need to compile it? Perhaps you are
> looking for the latest and greatest.
>
> You    may   have   dependency   problems.   These
> dependencies  may  be  resolved  by installing the
> native packages. Perhaps you can open Synaptic and
> install  the  native  gnuradio that way and see if
> that helps your compile process.
>
> Best regards.
>
> .. ..-. / -.-- --- ..- / .-. . .- -.. /  -  .. ...
> .-.. . - ... /  .- ...- . / .- / -... . . .-.
>
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>
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[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: FUNCube dongle

2011-02-27 Thread Patrick Strasser
schrieb Moeller on 2011-02-26 13:11:
> Sync problems? I thought, the "audio" devices implement
> a fixed sampling clock and the USB transmission is buffered to
> achieve a continuous stream without gaps or clock variations.
> Only the PC audio output has a different clock, but that problem
> occurs with other external sources too, like the USRPs.

The problem arises between system clock and audio clock. While the Audio
clock is most probably a free running clock in the device, the computer
may have a slightly different time base. Now who is right about the
sampling rate? One thing you can do is accept occasional resyncs with
small hickups or clicks, that is some lost samples or some extra
samples. Or you can resample the stream, which is computational
intensive and decreases quality. Or you manage to synchronize the
clocks, which is possible with USB. But the USB clock has probably too
much jitter for high quality signal sampling...

No easy task. Anyway, refer to SDR widget, they have thought of every
possible problem and solution.

Patrick
-- 
Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast: choose any two
Patrick Strasser 
Student of Telematik, Techn. University Graz, Austria


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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] book/video (MIT courseware, whatever) recommendations?

2011-02-27 Thread James Blachly
National Instruments also has some nice RF tutorials on their web site.

In particular, I found this one very helpful in understanding I/Q data:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4805

Warm regards,
James S. Blachly, MD


On Feb 22, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Brett L. Trotter wrote:

> Is there one or two books that give a pretty comprehensive, yet low base
> communications/DSP knowledge requirement that would be a guided
> walkthrough of waves and fields, various forms of modulation, carriers,
> filters, sidebands, etc? I'm really looking for something that's either
> not a textbook, or not written like one- most textbooks are very dry and
> hard to understand without someone guiding the experience and asking the
> right questions. I realize the material is fairly dry, so I understand
> that it's not going to be a crichton novel, but the less crazy math and
> algorithm intensive it is, the better.
> 
> Long story short, what's a good way to get a more solid grasp of how
> driving a DAC can create electromagnetic waves, and what can one do with
> those waves. I'd really really like to walk away understanding how
> complex numbers turn into constellations are really formed as an
> electromagnetic wave, etc, and the real guts of some basic things like
> FM and DSSS.
> 
> -Brett
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[Discuss-gnuradio] Real-only direct-conversion

2011-02-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I was on a call the other night with someone who asserted that you
didn't need an I & Q representation
  for  a direct-conversion receiver, and that I and Q could be
synthesized later from a real-mode-only
  baseband signal.

I know that very-early (1940s) direct-conversion receivers didn't use I
and Q signal chains, but they were
  typically used for demodulating AM signals, where the +/- frequency
ambiguity wouldn't have been
  an issue.

So, my feeling is that you *absolutely need* the I and Q "form" in order
to disambiguate +/-
  frequencies when dealing with direct-conversion baseband signals.

Who's right?

-- 
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Real-only direct-conversion

2011-02-27 Thread Achilleas Anastasopoulos
Yes, it is possible:

For a bandpass signal at f_0 with bandwidth 2W, if you sample with rate:

Rs=4f_0/(2n+1)  where n is an integer

you will get the in-phase components at the even samples and the
quadrature components
at the odd samples.
In particular, if you set

n= integer part of (f0/2W -1/2)

then you can have the minimum required sampling rate (Rs~= 4W) for
perfect reconstruction
of in-phase and quadrature components without the need of I/Q chain.

Achilleas

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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usb errors while stopping flowgraph

2011-02-27 Thread Thomas Tsou
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Brett L. Trotter  wrote:
> I've got several different flowgraphs here that upon shutting down some
> portion of the time, they emit a series of errors and then totally tank
> my USB controller on a number of test systems, requiring a full system
> reboot to reset the USB (the RHEL6 box I'm using has USB modules
> compiled into the kernel, so rmmod isn't an option). The flowgraphs stop
> normally about 3/4 times. It seems to be chance when its in some odd
> state that it won't shutdown right.
>
> Errors emitted:
> usb_control_msg failed: error sending control message: Connection timed out
> write_cmd failed

You should consider switching over to the new UHD blocks as the old
driver is no longer in active development. You can try building with
the libusb-1.0 backend (--with-fusb-tech=libusb1) to see if the
problem goes away, but UHD is the long term solution.

  Thomas

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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 802.11g

2011-02-27 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Thomas Nitsche  wrote:

> Hi,
> we are doing some research here on decoding 802.11g using GNURadio. As far
> as i know there is code available for transmission of 802.11g frames on
> CGRAN but no receiver code. Is there any work going on for the receiver side
> right now? Is it theoretically possible to decode a signal received with the
> USRP N210? The bandwidth provided by the gigabit ethernet connection should
> be sufficient in contrast to the USRP1 USB connection, or am i wrong?
>

Thomas,
Yes, the N210 will handle the bandwidth of 802.11g.



> I had a look at the (generic) GNURadio OFDM mod/demod code but its kind of
> hard to understand whats going on there. I have reused the ofdm-sync-pm code
> to generate seemingly helpful frequency offset values from the 802.11 short
> training sequence. I also extracted timing information by correlating with
> the known short sequence. However i am not sure if this synchronization is
> accurate enough for at least a few fft blocks.
>
> Is there anything like:
>
> fine timing/frequency correction,
>

Yes, provided by the ofdm_sync block in ofdm_receiver.py.


> sampling offset correction,
>

Yes, also provided by the ofdm_sync block in ofdm_receiver.py.


channel estimation or
>

Yes, in ofdm_frame_acq in ofdm_receiver.py.


> code for using pilot tone subcarriers
>

No. That's one of the biggest gaps in the current implementation.


> in the generic GNURadio ofdm implementation that could be reused for a
> 802.11g receiver? What is with the code for extracting infos from the
> subcarriers? Would it be easier to rewrite it from scratch or can some of
> the gnuradio code be reused?
>
> Thanks for any information you can provide,
> Thomas


It should be a place to start, but it'll probably take some work (though
hopefully less than starting from scratch). For getting the subcarriers, you
probably want to look at the gr_ofdm_frame_sink block.

Tom



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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Constant output message source

2011-02-27 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 4:52 AM, ichigo.san  wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there is a method to have a source block constantly
> sending out "0" and once it recieves a message from python, e.g a packet,
> it
> will then stream the message and switch back to sending "0" when done.
>
> I've tried:
> Message Source > (Add, 0)
> Constant Source/Vector Source with 0 -> (Add, 1) ---> output
>
> However, the add block (and all blocks in gnuradio) waits for stream items
> from both inputs to be ready (i.e no interpolation) before making a output
> stream item. This effectively nullifies the const source in the above
> example.
>
> I was wondering if there is any possible way to solve this problem?
>
> The reason I am asking this is I am using a dual TX setup on a single USRP
> which interleaves output signals. I have I output signal that is constantly
> sending (beacon) and one that is only sending sometimes, however the
> interleaving of output signals means that both streams needs to be
> constantly sending.
>

Right, the add block needs to see items from both streams so that it can add
them together. If there is no data on one stream, there is nothing to add
and it does not assume zeros.

My advice is to make a new block. The easiest would probably to make a new
add block that inherits from gr_block instead of gr_sync_block. In this
block, you tests the length of both inputs and add which items together that
you want, substituting zeros when there is no more data on the incoming
message stream. It will be pretty specific to your needs, and be careful
with your consume() and return item numbers to account for what you've done
with both streams.

Tom
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Howto transmit idle pattern output when data isn't available

2011-02-27 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Phelps Williams  wrote:

> I have what I would suspect is a common dilemma with the gnuradio
> architecture.  I have a udp socket which is providing me a packets at less
> than the bitrate being transmitted by the usrp.  The datagrams being
> received by the udp socket are variable in size and message timing is not
> regular.
>
> If my gnuradio transmitter exhausts the data available on the udp socket
> there will be a gap in the modulated output (I would expect the output of my
> usrp to just go CW at this point correct?).  This will definitely happen
> because the bitrate my modulator expects is higher than the actual amount of
> data available.  This causes the receiver to go out of bit lock and it must
> attempt to relock when modulation starts again.
>
> Is it possible to inject an idle pattern when datagrams are not available
> to keep the receiver in lock?  I'm thinking I may need to write my own
> source which does a non blocking read on the socket, if data isn't available
> it outputs an idle sequence, if data is available it provides that instead.
>  Is there an easier way to do this (that doesn't require me to do additional
> work)?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Phelps
>


Nope, no easy way that doesn't require you to do more work :) Making your
own block to handle this case might be the easiest thing to do right now.

Eventually, I think the answer to your question is the new stream tagging
interface, probably in the receiver. I would like to make this work for all
of our digital modulation blocks, too, which have a number of syncing loops
that go crazy when there is no signal and then have to resync when the
signal returns. I would like for a block to check the power of the incoming
signal and determine if there is energy or not. When there is no energy, it
needs to send a tag downstream that tells all of the recovery loops to stop
working. When energy is detected again, send a tag to turn back on. The idea
being that, most likely, in the time between bursts, the channel and
conditions have not changed greatly, so the last stable point of the sync
loops should still be close.

The difficulty with this method is mostly that we have not written
documentation on the stream tagging interface, nor have we provided many
good examples for how to use it. It is currently only available in the
'next' branch.

Tom
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM mod/demod test code

2011-02-27 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Tuan (Johnny) Ta wrote:

> A lot of people seem to have problem with the OFDM receiver in gnuradio.
> Since there's no confirmation of a working *2-way* communication using
> OFDM yet, I've decided to dig into the OFDM receiver implementation. I want
> to test the performance of the OFDM synchronization block. To do that, first
> I want to isolate the ofdm_sync block and make sure the rest of the chain
> works.
>
> I found that there is a test file for OFDM mod and demod, named
> ofdm_mod_demod_test.py, without invoking OFDM synchronization, FFT, preamble
> and cyclic. However, that code is outdated and not applicable for the
> current implementation.
>
> I'm trying to generate similar test code for the current version of OFDM
> mod and demod but there seems to be no straight-forward way. It used to be
> that we can hook the ofdm_mapper straight into an ofdm_frame_sink. It's no
> long the case as the frame_sink now requires a 2nd input, which is a stream
> of bytes signaling the beginning of a symbol. This input is provided by
> ofdm_frame_acquisition, which in turn requires the signaling from the
> ofdm_sampler. The ofdm_sampler gets the signaling from the ofdm_sync x_x.
>
> Long story short, I haven't found a way to test the system while bypassing
> the ofdm_sync block yet. Can anyone give me some suggestion?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Johnny
>

Johnny,
Try using the "fixed" version of the ofdm_sync block found on line 96 of
ofdm_receiver.py. This takes information about what you expect the timing
and frequency offset to be and does nothing but use that to trigger the
follow-on components. It was made for doing exactly the kind of things you
are looking at doing.

Tom
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[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: High CPU usage

2011-02-27 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:47 PM, peng senl  wrote:

>
>
> > The legacy driver or UHD? Are you using 32-bit complex
> > floats or
> > 16-bit complex shorts for you data?
>
> In my case, I am using GNU Radio with USRP2 in C++.
> The CPU usage for 5MHz is 30% with 3.2 G duo core CPU and around 70% for
> 20MHz sample frequency.
>
> > I'd be very interested to hear your benchmarking of the
> > different
> > types here. That is UHD/32fc vs. USRP2/32fc and UHD/16sc
> > vs.
> > USRP2/16sc. Also, UHD/32fc vs. UHD/16sc.
>
> I just read data coming over the Ethernet. I did not even convert from big
> to little endian or convert data to other format. So I try to minimize the
> operations. But I still get such a high CPU usage. I wondering is it
> possible to simplify the data receive operations.
>

Ok, that didn't answer my question at all. HOW are you reading them from the
Ethernet port? Which function are you calling in the USRP2 library to do
this? Or which GNU Radio usrp2_source_XXX are you using (usrp2_source_32fc
or usrp2_soruce_16sc)?

Tom
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Adding dual usrp sink block to benchmark_tx.py

2011-02-27 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Jay Gaona  wrote:

>  Hello everyone,
>
> I've added a dual usrp sink block and duplicated the tx flow graphs in
> benchmark_tx.py example. However, I am unable to transmit packets when I set
> the following in the flow graph:
>
> self.packet_transmitter = \
> blks2.mod_pkts(modulator,
>access_code=None,
>msgq_limit=4,
>pad_for_usrp=True)
>
> self.packet_transmitter_2 = \
> blks2.mod_pkts(modulator_2,
>access_code=None,
>msgq_limit=4,
>pad_for_usrp=True)
>
>
> self.connect(self.packet_transmitter, self.amp, (self, 0))
> self.connect(self.packet_transmitter_2, self.amp_2, (self, 1))
>
> I have tried the following 2 codes and were able to transmit packets from
> the first flow graph, and then the packets from the second flow graph:
>
> self.connect(self.packet_transmitter, self.amp, (self, 0))
> self.connect(self.null_source,  self.amp_2, (self, 1))
>
> self.connect(self.null_source, self.amp, (self, 0))
> self.connect(self.packet_transmitter_2, self.amp_2, (self, 1))
>
> Any idea why I am unable to simultaneously transmit packets from both flow
> graphs? Thanks in advance!
>


Right now, no, sorry, no ideas. It seems like it should work.

I will suggest two things, though. First, remove the message sources from
the graph. Replace your packet_transmitter_X and replace them with two
gr.sig_source_c() with different frequencies and make sure that they
transmit as expected from each output of the USRP.

Next, keep your packet transmitters, but replace the USRP dual sink with
file sinks and make sure they are getting the proper signals from the
source.

Between these two experiments, maybe you'll get enough information to fix
your problem. Or let us know more about what's happening to be more help to
you.

Tom
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Multirate Blocks

2011-02-27 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Antoine Dedave <
qlmqny_anti_r...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I'm implementing a 2-FSK modulator (I Know that a good one already exists
> but
> i have to do it myself for academic purpose).
>
> To do so, i produce a given (N) number of samples corresponding to the
> sampling of a complex exponnetial for each
>  incoming bits.
>
> The "sampling rate" (one bit => N samples) is increased  by N through the
> modulator, so i'm doing this
>
> Constructor:
>
>   set_relative_rate(N);
>   set_output_multiple(N);
>
> General_work:
>
>   consume_each(noutput_items/N);
>
> Is that correct? and is there anything else to do?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Antoine Dedave
>

First, what type of gr_block are you inheriting from? The fact that you are
using noutput_items/N in your consume_each function makes it look almost
like you are using a gr_sync_block, which would not be the right answer
here.

In fact, you can use a gr_sync_interpolator since you know the direct
relationship between input and output samples (1-to-N). Set the
interpolation rate as N and you don't need to worry about any of the reset
(setting the relative_rate or consume_each; the parent class knows what to
do with them).

Look at the implementation of gr_sync_interpolator to see how it handles
setting everything up for you to do the interpolation properly.

Tom
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Build error GNU Radio release v3.3.1git-971-ga02bb131

2011-02-27 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Arya Santini wrote:

> Hi Jared, thanks for that suggestion.
>
> Anyway, I realized that I was using GNU compiler gcc-4.6
> (experimental) which apparently imposes stricter rules and allows
> package builds to fail where previous versions used to succeed. So the
> suggested fix for one typical "ptrdiff_t does not name a type" is
> #include , which I did in the
> /usrp/host/swig/python/usrp_prims.cc file, and the build completed to
> success.
>
> Arya
>

Thanks for bringing this up (and for the solution). The usrp_prims.cc file
is actually generated by SWIG, so I've explicitly included stddef.h into the
.i file, which is done for most of the other SWIG files already for other
reasons. This really seems like a SWIG problem, so hopefully this will be
fixed in future releases before the new GCC takes over. Hopefully, this
fixes our last hole, anyways.

I'll be pushing changes to next and master soon.

Tom




> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Jared Harvey 
> wrote:
> > Hello Arya,
> >
> > AS> I  was  trying  to  build  the gnuradio on yet
> > AS> another  machine  running  Ubuntu  10.10. from
> > AS> source  today  after  checking  out the latest
> > AS> code from the dev trunk:
> >
> > I see Ubuntu 10.10 has native packages. Is there a
> > reason why you need to compile it? Perhaps you are
> > looking for the latest and greatest.
> >
> > Youmay   have   dependency   problems.   These
> > dependencies  may  be  resolved  by installing the
> > native packages. Perhaps you can open Synaptic and
> > install  the  native  gnuradio that way and see if
> > that helps your compile process.
> >
> > Best regards.
> >
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> >
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> > Web page http://jaredharvey.com
> >
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Real-only direct-conversion

2011-02-27 Thread Moeller
On 27.02.2011 17:28, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> I was on a call the other night with someone who asserted that you
> didn't need an I & Q representation
>   for  a direct-conversion receiver, and that I and Q could be
> synthesized later from a real-mode-only
>   baseband signal.
...

> So, my feeling is that you *absolutely need* the I and Q "form" in order
> to disambiguate +/-
>   frequencies when dealing with direct-conversion baseband signals.
> Who's right?

As long as you receive the complete signal bandwidth, you can create the I/Q 
form later.
Of course you need the double sample rate, if there's only the real "baseband"
representation. I call it baseband, but you can also call it IF with the lowest
possible IF frequency. Strictly speaking it's not a "direct-conversion" 
receiver,
since there is a fixed IF in the middle of the baseband spectrum.
The "data rate" is the same for both, one has double sample rate but only
half the sample size (real vs. complex numbers).

Complex baseband (I/Q) reconstruction:
- Hilbert transform eleminates the (symmetric) negative frequencies
- Frequency shifting the IF frequency to zero by multiplying a complex 
exp(-j*2*pi*f_IF*t)

This is standard in digital down converters (DDC).
The TVRX-Board is working this way. According to the schematic,
only the bipolar A channel is connected to the tuner chip, a real input.
Other Dboards use both A/B inputs for separate I/Q channels.

I think both variants have their advantages and disadvantages.

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[Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio script

2011-02-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I've put together a script for building GnuRadio+UHD for both Ubuntu 
recent and Fedora recent.


I've attached it.

This is outgrowth of a script I put together and distributed to a few 
people several years ago, but it has

  been updated quite a bit and supports both Ubuntu and Fedora.

Your mileage may vary.  Void where prohibited.  Some settling may have 
occurred during transit.  Batteries not

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#!/bin/sh
#
# Build script for UHD+GnuRadio on Fedora and Ubuntu
#
SUDOASKED=n
function prereqs {
sudocheck
echo Installing pre-prequisites
#
# Check whether we're on a Fedora or Ubuntu system, and "do the right 
thing"
#  for either system
#
# It's a Fedora system
#
if [ -f /etc/fedora-release ]
then
case `cat /etc/fedora-release` in
*12*|*13*|*14*|*15*)
sudo yum -y groupinstall "Engineering and Scientific" 
"Development Tools" 
sudo yum -y install fftw-devel cppunit-devel 
wxPython-devel libusb-devel \
  guile boost-devel alsa-lib-devel numpy gsl-devel 
python-devel pygsl \
  python-cheetah python-lxml guile-devel PyOpenGL \
  PyQt4-devel qwt-devel qwtplot3d-qt4-devel libusb 
libusb-devel \
  libusb1 libusb1-devel cmake git wget sdcc
;;
*)
echo Your Fedora system release must be at least 12 to 
proceed
exit
;;
esac

#
# It's a Ubuntu system
#
elif [ -f /etc/lsb-release ]
then
case `grep DISTRIB_RELEASE /etc/lsb-release` in
*10.04*|*10.10*)
sudo apt-get -y install libfontconfig1-dev 
libxrender-dev libpulse-dev swig g++ \
automake autoconf libtool python-dev libfftw3-dev \
libcppunit-dev libboost-all-dev libusb-dev fort77 sdcc 
sdcc-libraries \
libsdl1.2-dev python-wxgtk2.8 git-core guile-1.8-dev \
libqt4-dev python-numpy ccache python-opengl 
libgsl0-dev \
python-cheetah python-lxml doxygen qt4-dev-tools 
libusb-1.0-0-dev \
libqwt5-qt4-dev libqwtplot3d-qt4-dev pyqt4-dev-tools \
cmake git wget sdcc
;;

*9.10*)
sudo apt-get -y install swig g++ automake autoconf 
libtool python-dev libfftw3-dev \
libcppunit-dev libboost1.38-dev libusb-dev fort77 sdcc 
sdcc-libraries \
libsdl1.2-dev python-wxgtk2.8 git-core guile-1.8-dev \
libqt4-dev python-numpy ccache python-opengl 
libgsl0-dev \
python-cheetah python-lxml doxygen qt4-dev-tools 
libusb-1.0-0-dev \
libqwt5-qt4-dev libqwtplot3d-qt4-dev pyqt4-dev-tools \
cmake git wget sdcc
;;

*)
echo Your Ubuntu release must be at least 9.10 to 
proceed
exit
;;
esac
else
echo This script supports only Ubuntu and Fedora systems
echo Your Fedora system must be at least Fedora 13
echo Your Ubuntu system must be at least Ubuntu 9.10
exit
fi
}


function gitfetch {
cd $HOME
date=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`

#
# Check for existing gnuradio directory
#
if [ -d $HOME/gnuradio ]
then
mv $HOME/gnuradio $HOME/gnuradio.$date
fi

#
# Check for existing UHD directory
#
if [ -d $HOME/uhd ]
then
mv $HOME/uhd $HOME/uhd.$date
fi

#
# GIT the gnu radio source tree
#
git clone http://gnuradio.org/git/gnuradio.git

if [ ! -d gnuradio/gnuradio-core ]
then
echo GIT checkout of Gnu Radio failed!
exit
fi

#
# GIT the UHD source tree
#
git clone git://code.ettus.com/ettus/uhd.git

if [ ! -d uhd/host ]
then
echo GIT checkout of UHD failed!
exit
fi
}

function uhd_build {
#
# UHD build
#
sudocheck
cd $HOME
if [ ! -d uhd ]
then
echo you do not appear to have the \'uhd\' directory
echo you should probably use $0 gitfetch to fetch the 
appropriate
   

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Real-only direct-conversion

2011-02-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech

On 02/27/2011 06:16 PM, Moeller wrote:


As long as you receive the complete signal bandwidth, you can create the I/Q 
form later.
Of course you need the double sample rate, if there's only the real "baseband"
representation. I call it baseband, but you can also call it IF with the lowest
possible IF frequency. Strictly speaking it's not a "direct-conversion" 
receiver,
since there is a fixed IF in the middle of the baseband spectrum.
The "data rate" is the same for both, one has double sample rate but only
half the sample size (real vs. complex numbers).

Complex baseband (I/Q) reconstruction:
- Hilbert transform eleminates the (symmetric) negative frequencies
- Frequency shifting the IF frequency to zero by multiplying a complex 
exp(-j*2*pi*f_IF*t)

This is standard in digital down converters (DDC).
The TVRX-Board is working this way. According to the schematic,
only the bipolar A channel is connected to the tuner chip, a real input.
Other Dboards use both A/B inputs for separate I/Q channels.

I think both variants have their advantages and disadvantages.

Right, for a non-zero IF, it's easy to see how to do the Hilbert 
transform and convert to I+Q, provided the

  sample rates are correct.

But for a zero-IF, direct-conversion, with only a single baseband output 
(single mixer), I don't see how you

  can make it work.




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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Real-only direct-conversion

2011-02-27 Thread Moeller
On 28.02.2011 00:22, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> But for a zero-IF, direct-conversion, with only a single baseband output 
> (single mixer), I don't see how you
>can make it work.

A real valued zero-IF "universal" (modulation independent) receiver does not 
exist.
I think you have the a demodulating receiver in mind that relies on
symmetry in the baseband spectrum, like for AM. In this concept, "baseband"
is the real valued audio baseband. For digital modulations it doesn't make 
sense.
The real valued representation with IF at half of the one-sided signal bandwidth
can be called "real baseband", in contrast to the "complex baseband".
Same data size, same content, same bandwidth, just shifted in spectrum.

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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Real-only direct-conversion

2011-02-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech

On 02/27/2011 06:41 PM, Moeller wrote:

A real valued zero-IF "universal" (modulation independent) receiver does not 
exist.
I think you have the a demodulating receiver in mind that relies on
symmetry in the baseband spectrum, like for AM. In this concept, "baseband"
is the real valued audio baseband. For digital modulations it doesn't make 
sense.
The real valued representation with IF at half of the one-sided signal bandwidth
can be called "real baseband", in contrast to the "complex baseband".
Same data size, same content, same bandwidth, just shifted in spectrum.

Yup, that's pretty much what I said in my initial post on the subject.  
The 1940s-era direct-conversion
  receivers were designed specifically for things like AM, where the 
+/- frequency ambiguity didn't

  matter.

Yup, placing the IF at Fs/4 makes sense in that you can later do a 
Hilbert transform and convert to complex.

  But if the IF is at zero, you lose.




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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: UHD Announcement - February 25rd 2011

2011-02-27 Thread Josh Blum

> When you say "2x" performance increase, do you mean CPU performance or
> send()/recv() latency?  Do you mind saying a few words on what changes
> you have made?
> 

Much of the performance gains involved removing things out of the
fast-path that only needed to be called once at initialization (forgoing
code simplicity for performance). Example: a vector of pointers, a bound
callable object; many of which had calls to malloc and free which incurs
quite a lot of unnecessary overhead.

Less cpu cycles/less time are spent in the send()/recv() calls. This
roughly worked out to about half the CPU usage when looking at oprofile.
Because of this, the overall latency is reduced. We measured about 250us
RTT from device to host and back to device with the latency measurement
app in uhd examples.

-josh

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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] multiple tabs

2011-02-27 Thread Josh Blum
The graphical widgets all take a notebook parameter which is
notebook_id, tab_index. See the documentation in the various blocks.

-josh

On 02/26/2011 07:46 AM, ranjini ram wrote:
> hi
> 
> can anybody help me out in creating multiple tabs in a single output
> window.eg.one tab indicating RF spectrum second IF spectrum and so on..
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
> 
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[Discuss-gnuradio] About the -ve represenation on FFT graph.

2011-02-27 Thread rono

Sorry if the question was re-posted.


Can anyone reply this entry level question?


In complex data representation such as the attached image by grc,
the LPF cut the frequency in both direction(+/- freq)
which the center frequency is 0Hz

http://www.fungkai.com/~howie/sdr/complex_1_basefreq0.gif

When I set the base frequency to a large positive value such as 10MHz,
the cutoff shows on both side apart from the center frequency too.


http://www.fungkai.com/~howie/sdr/complex_1_basefreq10.gif

What's the frequency lower then the center frequency represent?


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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] About the -ve represenation on FFT graph.

2011-02-27 Thread Josh Blum


On 02/27/2011 07:57 PM, rono wrote:
> Sorry if the question was re-posted.
> 
> 
> Can anyone reply this entry level question?
> 
> 
> In complex data representation such as the attached image by grc,
> the LPF cut the frequency in both direction(+/- freq)
> which the center frequency is 0Hz
> 
> http://www.fungkai.com/~howie/sdr/complex_1_basefreq0.gif
> 
> When I set the base frequency to a large positive value such as 10MHz,
> the cutoff shows on both side apart from the center frequency too.
> 

The baseband frequency parameter only changes the value printed on the x
axis. For example: If you had a usrp source tuned to frequency X, you
would also set the baseband frequency to X -> for display purposes.

-josh

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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Driver in E100/Beagleboard

2011-02-27 Thread Almohanad Fayez

I think I made some progress in diagnosing the UHD/Beagleboard USRP1 issue.  
I've tried bitbaking Philip's GNU Radio 3.2.1 recipe and the compilation fails 
because of the libusb-0.1.12 link, more specifically the "libusb-gnur.a" 
library.  For some reason GCC is expecting the library to have the "-fPIC" flag 
passed when building the library which doesn't make sense since it's trying to 
link against a static library and not a shared librar ... it was complaining 
about an ARM_MOV or something like that assembly command.  To my understanding 
the libtool included in the libusb should make sure that such confusion doesn't 
happen which in using GCC 4.3 was not an issue but with the GCC 4.5 included in 
the new tree is an issue.

I also tried incorporating the libusb fix against the GNU Radio GIT recipe but 
the configure stage fails because gnuradio can't find the "USB_BULK_WRITE" 
function in the libusb library from libusb-0.1.12 which when I looked is 
actually there.  When I bypass the configure check for USB_BULK_WRITE the 
gnuradio compilation fails at the same stage as gnuradio 3.2.1.  I feel like 
the libusb-0.1.12 static library is corrupt for some reason more specifically I 
think libtool might be the culprit.

I assume that USB_BULK_WRITE is used in the USRP sink UHD block which might 
explain why I can receive but I can't write using the UHD driver.  The 
libusb-0.1.12 fix included in the UHD driver, did it use GCC 4.5? did it use 
libusb-0.1.12? an older or newer version maybe?  did it use a different 
libtool?  

I need to find a way to pass the -fPIC flag to the configure stage of 
libusb-0.1.12 unfortunately I can't seem to find an easy way to do it and I'm 
about to head out of town for a few days.  Other than that doese anyone have 
any suggestion?  

Josh or Philip :)

al fayez




-Original Message-
From: Almohanad Fayez 
To: philip 
Cc: discuss-gnuradio 
Sent: Thu, Feb 24, 2011 6:42 pm
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Driver in E100/Beagleboard


1- I'm using the host USB not the OTG
2- I'm using the 2.6.37 kernel with Angstrom 2010
3- The following is the dmesg output which looks ok ... at least to me :)

[  108.369293] usb 1-2.3.1: USB disconnect, address 4
[  108.770874] usb 1-2.3.1: new high speed USB device using ehci-omap and 
address 6
[  108.889404] usb 1-2.3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=fffe, idProduct=0002
[  108.889434] usb 1-2.3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, 
SerialNumber=6
[  108.889465] usb 1-2.3.1: Product: USRP Rev 4
[  108.889465] usb 1-2.3.1: Manufacturer: Free Software Folks
[  108.889495] usb 1-2.3.1: SerialNumber: 4bd1d69b




I think I'll try to attempt to redo your libusb hack by copying it from the 
older gnuradio recipes and attempt to use the original USRP USB driver if the 
problem ends up being too major ... unless you want to do that as a favor to me 
and push the recipe into the openembedded tree !!!   pretty please :)


al fayez






-Original Message-
From: Philip Balister 
To: Almohanad Fayez 
Cc: discuss-gnuradio 
Sent: Thu, Feb 24, 2011 2:20 pm
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Driver in E100/Beagleboard


On 02/23/2011 11:25 PM, Almohanad Fayez wrote:

> I was wondering about people's experience with the UHD driver on the E100 or 

the Beagleboard.  I am able to use it to receive IQ data from the USRP but I 

can't seem to transmit anything from it ... if I take the same flowgraph to a 

laptop I'm able to transmit IQ using the same USRP/daughterboard and the UHD 

driver however when I try to run the same transmitter on the Beagleboard and I 

check my spectrum analyzer I don't see anything

>

> I already did a signal capture before sending to the USRP and made sure that 

there is data getting pushed through ... is there a problem with UHD/USRP 

sinking on the E100 and the Beagleboard ???  I also made sure that I'm using 
the 

latest UHD firmware on the beagleboard.

>

>

> The following is the version info printed when I run the flowgraph:

> linux; GNU C++ version 4.5.3 20110214 (prerelease); Boost_104500; 

UHD_0001.20110224034946.1


Al,


Which USB port are you using to connect the USRP1? What kernel version?


Can you run dmesg and see if there are any usb related messages at the end?


Philip




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[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP output power

2011-02-27 Thread Songsong Gee
Does anybody know about output power of a USRP antenna, in voltage and
ampere ?

I'm trying to make a circuit connected with a USRP antenna port.
And, in the future, the human body will replace the circuit

Of course, it's a kind of experimental.

So, If I send a sinusoidal signal with magnitude 35536 which is a maximum
value allowed by USRP,
what voltage and ampere value does the antenna output?

Thank you for all in advance.
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Constant output message source

2011-02-27 Thread ichigo.san

Cool thanks for the reply.

The reason I am doing this is because I am trying to transmit signals at
different times... and testing shows the interleave block acts like the sync
type blocks you mention. I am guessing the same idea can be applied and make
a new interleave block and inherits from the gr_block.

Though I am just wondering that this has to be a common problem with the
dual usrp TX usage, I was wondering if anyone else has done similar work
already or has an more "standard" solution using the tools already built
into GNU radio. As I am not too familiar with the build toolchain and the
C++ backbones behind the python, however I will be reading up on it now.




Tom Rondeau wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 4:52 AM, ichigo.san  wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if there is a method to have a source block constantly
>> sending out "0" and once it recieves a message from python, e.g a packet,
>> it
>> will then stream the message and switch back to sending "0" when done.
>>
>> I've tried:
>> Message Source > (Add, 0)
>> Constant Source/Vector Source with 0 -> (Add, 1) ---> output
>>
>> However, the add block (and all blocks in gnuradio) waits for stream
>> items
>> from both inputs to be ready (i.e no interpolation) before making a
>> output
>> stream item. This effectively nullifies the const source in the above
>> example.
>>
>> I was wondering if there is any possible way to solve this problem?
>>
>> The reason I am asking this is I am using a dual TX setup on a single
>> USRP
>> which interleaves output signals. I have I output signal that is
>> constantly
>> sending (beacon) and one that is only sending sometimes, however the
>> interleaving of output signals means that both streams needs to be
>> constantly sending.
>>
> 
> Right, the add block needs to see items from both streams so that it can
> add
> them together. If there is no data on one stream, there is nothing to add
> and it does not assume zeros.
> 
> My advice is to make a new block. The easiest would probably to make a new
> add block that inherits from gr_block instead of gr_sync_block. In this
> block, you tests the length of both inputs and add which items together
> that
> you want, substituting zeros when there is no more data on the incoming
> message stream. It will be pretty specific to your needs, and be careful
> with your consume() and return item numbers to account for what you've
> done
> with both streams.
> 
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] python versions

2011-02-27 Thread Ben Reynwar
I just tested the next branch with 2.4 and the only incompatibility
was  a "with" statement in gr_xmlrunner.py.
The "with" statement was introduced in 2.5.

Once that was removed the "make check" ran fine.

The replacement for the "with" statement was:

fss = _fake_std_streams()
fss.__enter__()
try:
test(result)
try:
out_s = sys.stdout.getvalue()
except AttributeError:
out_s = ""
try:
err_s = sys.stderr.getvalue()
except AttributeError:
err_s = ""
finally:
fss.__exit__(None, None, None)

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Tom Rondeau  wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Ben Reynwar  wrote:
>> What are the oldest and newest versions of python that gnuradio should
>> work with?
>>
>> That way I can test stuff using those two versions.
>
>
> Python 2.4 is the oldest that I _know_ will work (and I don't think,
> but haven't tried, 2.3), and I've used it with 2.7. It will not work
> with 3.+.
>
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Driver in E100/Beagleboard

2011-02-27 Thread Thomas Tsou
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Almohanad Fayez  wrote:
> I think I made some progress in diagnosing the UHD/Beagleboard USRP1 issue.
> I've tried bitbaking Philip's GNU Radio 3.2.1 recipe and the compilation
> fails because of the libusb-0.1.12 link, more specifically the
> "libusb-gnur.a" library.  For some reason GCC is expecting the library to
> have the "-fPIC" flag passed when building the library which doesn't make
> sense since it's trying to link against a static library and not a shared
> librar ... it was complaining about an ARM_MOV or something like that
> assembly command.  To my understanding the libtool included in the libusb
> should make sure that such confusion doesn't happen which in using GCC 4.3
> was not an issue but with the GCC 4.5 included in the new tree is an issue.

UHD uses libusb-1.0 and does not support libusb-0.1. Despite some
similarities in the API, version 1.0 is a complete rewrite there is no
compatibility or relation between versions. In that sense, the
gnuradio 3.2 recipe is completely unrelated to UHD.

> I also tried incorporating the libusb fix against the GNU Radio GIT recipe
> but the configure stage fails because gnuradio can't find the
> "USB_BULK_WRITE" function in the libusb library from libusb-0.1.12 which
> when I looked is actually there.  When I bypass the configure check for
> USB_BULK_WRITE the gnuradio compilation fails at the same stage as gnuradio
> 3.2.1.  I feel like the libusb-0.1.12 static library is corrupt for some
> reason more specifically I think libtool might be the culprit.

If you are using libusb-0.1 and the gnuradio driver, you generally
_don't_ want to be using the mentioned libusb calls, which are
synchronous (slow). Normally, with libusb-0.1, the control and setup
functions go through libusb, while data flows through a separate OS
specific implementation - usbdevfs in the case of Linux. The only time
you should be seeing usb_bulk_write is when configure falls back to
the synchronous calls in the absence of any "fast" version. Now the
Linux implementation does have some evil bits, so perhaps this isn't
surprising.

> I assume that USB_BULK_WRITE is used in the USRP sink UHD block which might
> explain why I can receive but I can't write using the UHD driver.  The
> libusb-0.1.12 fix included in the UHD driver, did it use GCC 4.5? did it use
> libusb-0.1.12? an older or newer version maybe?  did it use a different
> libtool?

Again, usb_bulk_write and libusb-0.1.12 have no relation to UHD.

> I need to find a way to pass the -fPIC flag to the configure stage of
> libusb-0.1.12 unfortunately I can't seem to find an easy way to do it and
> I'm about to head out of town for a few days.  Other than that doese anyone
> have any suggestion?

In UHD with libusb-1.0, sends and receives are treated similarly (USB
is host driven) where pre-allocated buffers are submitted and
retrieved from the device. The difference is mainly in flags and
endpoint settings; the problem, IMO, is unlikely to be build related.
Of course, that doesn't provide any insight into why this is only
coming up on the Beagle.

I'd like to recreate this issue on my newly setup E100, but, at the
moment, I'm not seeing any USB devices, and I think I just bricked my
FPGA. So I need to get a little bit more settled until I can try out
additional things. Perhaps later this week...

  Thomas

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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] About the -ve represenation on FFT graph.

2011-02-27 Thread Howard Wong

Thanks for your kindly reply.

Can you explain more that, both sides from the center frequency of the 
input frequency has been cut by a low pass filter.


Doesn't a low pass filter allow the lower frequency to pass?

Thanks,
Rono




On 28/02/11 12:22, Josh Blum wrote:


On 02/27/2011 07:57 PM, rono wrote:

Sorry if the question was re-posted.


Can anyone reply this entry level question?


In complex data representation such as the attached image by grc,
the LPF cut the frequency in both direction(+/- freq)
which the center frequency is 0Hz

http://www.fungkai.com/~howie/sdr/complex_1_basefreq0.gif

When I set the base frequency to a large positive value such as 10MHz,
the cutoff shows on both side apart from the center frequency too.


The baseband frequency parameter only changes the value printed on the x
axis. For example: If you had a usrp source tuned to frequency X, you
would also set the baseband frequency to X ->  for display purposes.

-josh

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[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: High CPU usage

2011-02-27 Thread peng senl






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Hello Tom,



Here is how I collect the data: 




I am using the example 
rx_streaming_samples.cc to collect data. I disabled the function
copy_u2_16sc_to_host_16sc() in the example. 




I think the program keeps calling bool
ok = rx_nop_handler::operator()(items, nitems, metadata) to return
the pointer of  the received meta data array. 




There is a background thread
usrp2::impl::bg_loop() running in real time. This function  calls 
“d_eth_buf->rx_frames(this, 100); ” to get the data out from
the ethernet buffer.  That is basically what  this program does.  




Do you think the CPU usage is normal? 
I  also notice that the block timeout is 100ms. Is there a reason for
doing this? 



--- On Sun, 2/27/11, Tom Rondeau  wrote:

From: Tom Rondeau 
Subject: Re: High CPU usage
To: "peng senl" 
Cc: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org
Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011, 4:37 PM

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:47 PM, peng senl  wrote:






> The legacy driver or UHD? Are you using 32-bit complex

> floats or

> 16-bit complex shorts for you data?



In my case, I am using GNU Radio with USRP2 in C++.

The CPU usage for 5MHz is 30% with 3.2 G duo core CPU and around 70% for 20MHz 
sample frequency.



> I'd be very interested to hear your benchmarking of the

> different

> types here. That is UHD/32fc vs. USRP2/32fc and UHD/16sc

> vs.

> USRP2/16sc. Also, UHD/32fc vs. UHD/16sc.



I just read data coming over the Ethernet. I did not even convert from big to 
little endian or convert data to other format. So I try to minimize the 
operations. But I still get such a high CPU usage. I wondering is it possible 
to simplify the data receive operations.



Ok, that didn't answer my question at all. HOW are you reading them from the 
Ethernet port? Which function are you calling in the USRP2 library to do this? 
Or which GNU Radio usrp2_source_XXX are you using (usrp2_source_32fc or 
usrp2_soruce_16sc)?


Tom





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[Discuss-gnuradio] Synchronizing multiple USRPs

2011-02-27 Thread Khalid Jamil
Hello,

I have eight (08) USRP N210s that has been synchronized using 10MHZ and 1PPS
reference. I am receiving data from them using a gigabit ethernet switch to
my computer.

My question is when I will receive packets from all of them through a single
switch, how will I know the time reference for each sample?

Thanks,

Khalid.
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