Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DVBT Tx

2007-03-04 Thread Jens Elsner
Vincenzo, I did some experiments with DAB which is, (due to differential modulation), simpler than DVB. On the PHY level I managed to get "almost" (about 60%) real-time performance on my P4 with GNU Radio and prerecorded samples. This was only PHY (even without channel coding!), and the synchroni

[Discuss-gnuradio] DVBT Tx

2007-03-04 Thread Vincenzo Pellegrini
Hi Eric, I just saw your cool gnuradio presentation and heard you talking about a not yet realtime ATSC transmitter. I am a telecommunication engineering student in italy at Pisa University (Italy) at the moment, and it is quite likely that my final thesis (to be started in about a year from now)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fewer than 8 bits per sample FPGA support

2007-03-04 Thread Peter Monta
Eric Blossom wrote: The "short" version doesn't touch the data. You'll be able to unpack it youself. Strange, I had some problem with rx_cfile not seeming to respect the width parameter. I'll try it again. That determines the minimum decimation rate required upstream from the halfband (4

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Multi USRP on Single Computer

2007-03-04 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:51:34PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I'm pretty new to GNU radio so I'm still not > sure exactly what I need to do (I don't know about the whole "which" > constructor thing). All I've been able to do so far is run the > examples and modify th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 05 March 2007 11:26, Brian Padalino wrote: > I don't think you need anything PCI with the specified PLX chip. > > The PEX8311 has a description of: > > "8/16/32-bit, 66MHz, Local Bus to PCI Express Bridge" Whoops you are right. Weird I haven't seen that before on their site, maybe I'

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread Brian Padalino
On 3/4/07, Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You would still need a PCI core although you can get those a lot cheaper than PCIe cores. You can even get a free one from OpenCores (there is a PCI to wishbone bridge for example). I don't think you need anything PCI with the specified PLX

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP 4 Questions

2007-03-04 Thread Weber, Michael J. (US SSA)
The v4 USRP has a fan header next to the power jack. I don't know what the recommended solution for v3 USRPs is, although I suspect it's along the lines you mentioned. :-) Some v3 USRPs already have a power lead takeoff for an oscillator sub-board on the bottom of the USRP; I suspect the fan leads

[Discuss-gnuradio] Have USRP, will travel to SWL Fest

2007-03-04 Thread Eric A. Cottrell
Hello, Tuesday I am heading off to the biggest pencil in the world for the Winter SWL Fest in Kulpsville. I am going to do some informal demos of the USRP and GNURadio. They have a digital radio table in an exhibit room where they demo DRM. This year they want to do some demos of HD Radio and I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP 4 Questions

2007-03-04 Thread Eric A. Cottrell
Weber, Michael J. (US SSA) wrote: > Eric, I also recently received some enclosures... this is my two cents, > YMMV, etc: > > If the fan is installed such that it blows in onto the USRP, it will > receive the direct benefit of the airflow. However, the fan makes a lot > of noise in this configurati

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 05 March 2007 07:44, Brian Padalino wrote: > With regards to the PCIe interface, were you looking more at just > getting a PHY transceiver and putting the MAC and other layers in the > FPGA, or were you more interested in having a PCIe bridge chip that > handles all of that for you? > > I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] constellation mapping

2007-03-04 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:20:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to do constellation mapping in pyhton. I have code that does > a gr.packed_to_unpacked_bb and then gr.chunks_to_symbols_bc using a > constellation of: > > constellation=array((1+1j,1-1j,-1-1j,-1+1j),Complex) Use this:

[Discuss-gnuradio] constellation mapping

2007-03-04 Thread njm25
I want to do constellation mapping in pyhton. I have code that does a gr.packed_to_unpacked_bb and then gr.chunks_to_symbols_bc using a constellation of: constellation=array((1+1j,1-1j,-1-1j,-1+1j),Complex) My understanding is that this is the constellation mapping for QPSK. I want to do con

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread Ryan Seal
The ADCs I've been looking at can apparently somehow sample frequencies above their sampling rate aswell. I'm not really sure how this works, but I don't think it's an issue I must bother with right now. Added value for later, I think. Right now I'm only interested in shortwave transmissions, bu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Multi USRP on Single Computer

2007-03-04 Thread njm25
Thanks for the reply. I'm pretty new to GNU radio so I'm still not sure exactly what I need to do (I don't know about the whole "which" constructor thing). All I've been able to do so far is run the examples and modify them as needed (minor changes). I don't need to know which board is which

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread Brian Padalino
On 3/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh yes! Sorry, forgot to mention that part. I'd like to have an ADC with 65 to 105 Msps at 16 bits. This should allow me to sample up to 30 or 50MHz respectively. I was inspired to this from the Mercury project of the HPSDR, but that project

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread Brian Padalino
On 3/4/07, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT's and SXT's have (or will have) hard PCIe endpoint blocks. This puts most of endpoint IP into dedicated silicon. slicesDSP48 blocks 10/100/1000Rocket IO 550 MHz

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread Brian Padalino
On 3/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's a very nice chip, but it appears to be very expensive at $38... =( TI's costs $7, which is quite affordable. You get a lot for not a lot of money in comparison to writing and validating your own Transaction and Data Link layers for a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread ceriel
On 3/4/07, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:16:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 3/4/07, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Hm. Looks like I got my mailing lists crossed. This was intended for > >> the Open Graphics list, but at least you k

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:01:18AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 3/4/07, Brian Padalino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >With regards to the PCIe interface, were you looking more at just > >getting a PHY transceiver and putting the MAC and other layers in the > >FPGA, or were you more intereste

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:14:33PM -0500, Brian Padalino wrote: > With regards to the PCIe interface, were you looking more at just > getting a PHY transceiver and putting the MAC and other layers in the > FPGA, or were you more interested in having a PCIe bridge chip that > handles all of that for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread ceriel
On 3/4/07, Brian Padalino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With regards to the PCIe interface, were you looking more at just getting a PHY transceiver and putting the MAC and other layers in the FPGA, or were you more interested in having a PCIe bridge chip that handles all of that for you? I know Phi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread Brian Padalino
With regards to the PCIe interface, were you looking more at just getting a PHY transceiver and putting the MAC and other layers in the FPGA, or were you more interested in having a PCIe bridge chip that handles all of that for you? I know Philips and TI have PCIe transceivers which work with Xil

AW: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-buffer - threadsafe?

2007-03-04 Thread Dominik Auras
Hi! I am designing a block, owning an inner object, and now both will need a communication way. Since it's just one way, your buffer fulfills all my need. Do you think I should use a synchronisation object (e.g. mutex)? The inner object could possibly have an own event processing loop, i.e. can

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:44:59PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 3/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I'm trying to create a low-cost (below $100€) Software Defined > >Radio/Spectrum Analyser/Oscilloscope using a high-speed AD converter, > >an FPGA, and the P

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread ceriel
On 3/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm trying to create a low-cost (below $100€) Software Defined Radio/Spectrum Analyser/Oscilloscope using a high-speed AD converter, an FPGA, and the PCIe bus. It would be Open Hardware and compatible with the efforts of the GNU Radi

[Discuss-gnuradio] PCIe know-how?

2007-03-04 Thread ceriel
Hello, I'm trying to create a low-cost (below $100€) Software Defined Radio/Spectrum Analyser/Oscilloscope using a high-speed AD converter, an FPGA, and the PCIe bus. It would be Open Hardware and compatible with the efforts of the GNU Radio group. I don't have a lot of experience with this sort

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fewer than 8 bits per sample FPGA support

2007-03-04 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:33:08AM -0800, Peter Monta wrote: > Eric Blossom wrote: > > > > >I think that you're really going to want a configurable barrel > >shifter -- to get the bits where you want them -- then pick them off with > >round_X or round_X_nearest_even. > > > > OK, the attached rx

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP 4 Questions

2007-03-04 Thread Weber, Michael J. (US SSA)
Eric, I also recently received some enclosures... this is my two cents, YMMV, etc: If the fan is installed such that it blows in onto the USRP, it will receive the direct benefit of the airflow. However, the fan makes a lot of noise in this configuration because the blades are right next to the pe

[Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface for GNURadio Tunnel.py example

2007-03-04 Thread Naveen Manicka
Hi Eric, I am designing a matlab guide interface to run the tunnel example and if the log option is selected, I am planning to throw up another GUI with the plots of the logged data. My question at this point is, what kind of plots can be made out of the data captured. Just to get a feel, I trie

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fewer than 8 bits per sample FPGA support

2007-03-04 Thread Davide Anastasia
Il giorno dom, 04/03/2007 alle 01.33 -0800, Peter Monta ha scritto: > Please let me know if anything else is needed for the patch. > There's a testbench for bit_pack.v I can send along if you like. Great! I'll try this patch tomorrow. Can you send me the testbench. I need a testbench for rx_buffe

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fewer than 8 bits per sample FPGA support

2007-03-04 Thread Peter Monta
Eric Blossom wrote: I think that you're really going to want a configurable barrel shifter -- to get the bits where you want them -- then pick them off with round_X or round_X_nearest_even. OK, the attached rx_buffer.v includes a barrel shifter in bit_pack.v; I see this was anticipated wit