[Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio 2.7 has been released

2006-04-03 Thread Eric Blossom
Hi Folks, I just finished making the GNU Radio 2.7 release. For those of you who like building from tarballs, there are new ones at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuradio as usual. The new tarballs are: gnuradio-core-2.7.tar.gz gnuradio-examples-0.6.tar.gz gr-audio-alsa-0.4.tar.gz gr-aud

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] My First HDTV screenshot from USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:56:57PM +0930, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote: > >-Original Message- > > G'day, > > why is it that everyone appears to be so pessimistic about decoding HDTV > signals in realtime? I own a TechnoTrend USB stick capable of decoding HDTV > on a Inspiron 9300 laptop with a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] My First HDTV screenshot from USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:11:37PM -0400, Marcus Leech wrote: > > I'm having a hard time believing that processing ATSC video is a > *less* CPU-intensive application than pulsar processing, but I could > be completely wrong. > We'll see ;) We know more now then we knew then (good thing!) We can

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: [softrock40] SDR program for Macintosh

2006-04-03 Thread Robert McGwier
Today I installed a dual PPC Mac in my SDR lab at work. GnuRadio and DttSP and WSJT are all on the agenda. I helped get Portaudio going for GnuRadio and DttSP. PortAudio is a Portable Audio API and we are hoping to use it on top of CoreAudio to make all of this go. As a DttSP and GnuRadio d

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] My First HDTV screenshot from USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Robert McGwier
Amen: There are many of us who can help push this across the finish line and think this is a neat application but it might as well be closed source in its current state. Bob Eric Blossom wrote: The conversion makes sense - however I cannot get gnuradio-0.9/atsc_rx to compile (yet).

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] My First HDTV screenshot from USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Marcus Leech
Eric Blossom wrote: You know, I wish you guys would quit screwing around with the 0.9 code, and instead help us *all* move forward by investing some time in porting it to 2.x. The framework is already set up, and the first 4 blocks have been ported and tested. I'd really like some

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] My First HDTV screenshot from USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:40:55PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 21:45 -0700, mao mao wrote: > > Hi, > > Finally, I got my first HDTV screenshot tonight. It's > > from KTVU's "The Loop". > > > > Here's how I did it: > > > 6) Feed the 20Ms/s real data into Gnuradio 0.9's > >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] My First HDTV screenshot from USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Charles Swiger
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 21:45 -0700, mao mao wrote: > Hi, > Finally, I got my first HDTV screenshot tonight. It's > from KTVU's "The Loop". > > Here's how I did it: > 6) Feed the 20Ms/s real data into Gnuradio 0.9's > atsc_rx. > Veery inspiring - here's my nearby station on 41 (632-638M), about 1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded control of USRP

2006-04-03 Thread John Gilmore
> A couple of observations: no floating point >> Have you tried the geode nx? The MIT "$100 Laptop" uses the AMD Geode [EMAIL PROTECTED] See: http://wiki.laptop.org/wiki/Hardware_specification According to Jim Gettys, the reason is because it's the only low-power processor they could find tha

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded control of USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Lee Patton
Thanks, Chuck. Very useful to know. On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 15:34 -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 10:22 -0700, Thomas Schmid wrote: > > > Also, did you consider the power consumption of the usrp? I don't know > > if someone measured it, but this might also be a problem for you,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded control of USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:33:26PM -0700, Thomas Schmid wrote: > Hi Eric > > On 4/3/06, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:22:01AM -0700, Thomas Schmid wrote: > > > Hi Lee, > > > > > > We are also looking into similar things, though we don't have the > > > power

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded control of USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 10:22 -0700, Thomas Schmid wrote: > Also, did you consider the power consumption of the usrp? I don't know > if someone measured it, but this might also be a problem for you, > i.e., finding a battery which supports the usrp over a longer time. > I use a usrp with battery a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded control of USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Thomas Schmid
Hi Eric On 4/3/06, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:22:01AM -0700, Thomas Schmid wrote: > > Hi Lee, > > > > We are also looking into similar things, though we don't have the > > power constraints which will be difficult to meet. We are currently > > looking at a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded control of USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Clark Pope
The ppclinux does use the MMU, but a lot of people still run ucLinux mostly, it appears, because it is easier to set up and get going. I think one can add the FPU at the expense of using up the fpga. But, yes, such a thing would be an uphill climb. Then there's the issue if it's an embedded, h

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Low speed ADC-DAC from Python ?

2006-04-03 Thread Angilberto Muniz Sb
Perfect Eric. Thank you for the details... Angilberto. --- Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 06:34:24AM -0700, Angilberto > Muniz Sb wrote: > > Folks, > > Is it possible to read/write from/to the low speed > > ADC/DAC from Python? > > The python interfaces to th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded control of USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Lee Patton
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 10:22 -0700, Thomas Schmid wrote: > Hi Lee, > > We are also looking into similar things, though we don't have the > power constraints which will be difficult to meet. We are currently > looking at a micro-atx solution with an amd geod nx processor since > this one is compatib

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded control of USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:22:01AM -0700, Thomas Schmid wrote: > Hi Lee, > > We are also looking into similar things, though we don't have the > power constraints which will be difficult to meet. We are currently > looking at a micro-atx solution with an amd geod nx processor since > this one is c

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded control of USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 01:00:07PM -0400, Lee Patton wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Clark. Basically, the project we're working on > involves putting the USRP on a small UAV ("A" as in "aerial" not > "autonomous"). So, weight and power consumption are key. The hydraxc > looks very cool. However

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Low speed ADC-DAC from Python ?

2006-04-03 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 06:34:24AM -0700, Angilberto Muniz Sb wrote: > Folks, > Is it possible to read/write from/to the low speed > ADC/DAC from Python? The python interfaces to the usrp are specified in gr-usrp/src/usrp1.py. Check usrp/host/lib/usrp_basic.h for the missing documentation (sorry

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded control of USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Thomas Schmid
Hi Lee, We are also looking into similar things, though we don't have the power constraints which will be difficult to meet. We are currently looking at a micro-atx solution with an amd geod nx processor since this one is compatible with the amd athlon mobile. this should make it easy to have a ru

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded control of USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Lee Patton
Thanks for the reply, Clark. Basically, the project we're working on involves putting the USRP on a small UAV ("A" as in "aerial" not "autonomous"). So, weight and power consumption are key. The hydraxc looks very cool. However, I think we can go larger. And, for the first cut at a solution, we

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded control of USRP

2006-04-03 Thread Lee Patton
Thanks very much for the reply, Pete. I believe I have been abusing the terminology here. According to Wikipedia: " An embedded system is a special-purpose computer system, which is completely encapsulated by the device it controls. An embedded system has specific requirements and performs pre-

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM demodulation problem / example video

2006-04-03 Thread Jens Elsner
Bob, thanks for the reply. This is exactly what I am doing: [...] dem = data ./ data_l; [...] A point-wise division by the last OFDM symbol. This also restores amplitude, but has the same effect on the phase. I do not control the receiver, my data is from a radio station. I am only trying t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM demodulation problem / example video

2006-04-03 Thread Robert McGwier
Jens: This pi/4-DQPSK. That means New-symbol * (complex conjugate (Old-symbol)) is pi/4 modulo pi/2. Are you taking this into account on both the transmitter and the receiver and it in all of the bins before your inverse fft provides the time domain signal to transmit would be my best

[Discuss-gnuradio] Low speed ADC-DAC from Python ?

2006-04-03 Thread Angilberto Muniz Sb
Folks, Is it possible to read/write from/to the low speed ADC/DAC from Python? If possible, what would be a safe rate ? Thankx, Angilberto. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM / DAB demodulation

2006-04-03 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi Clark, thanks for trying out my code. The problem is that what you are seeing is *already* DQPSK. The pilot is accounted for, it is the first symbol in every frame. Demodulating might make sense, but I guess the BER is still way too high to compensate it with channel coding. There has to be