Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/02/2010 12:52 AM, Matt Ettus wrote: > > > This is where your problem is. If you are using decimation of 4 then > you are sending 25 million samples per second to the display. > However, you are telling it that its sample rate is 1 Million. Thus > you are giving it 25 times as many samples

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-01 Thread Matt Ettus
P.S. - My configuration: I'm using the latest gnuradio source code along with a USRP2 and a WBX board, decimation is at 4, the FFT Sink's bin size is set at 2048 and its sampling rate is at 1,000,000. The computer is a Thinkpad X61s with a Core2Duo 1.6GHz processor and an Intel GM965 graphics

[Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-01 Thread Jack Ott
Hi there, I'm having trouble getting hardware acceleration to work with grc's graphical sinks. With the regular sinks the refresh rate is always choppy and sluggish until it eventually locks up completely. And when I tried the OpenGL sinks it turned out they're even slower than the regulars, espe

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2, is that possible to skip the Ethernet and pass data through general purpose (physically accessible) inputs to the FPGA?

2010-09-01 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 07:07:26PM -0600, Malihe Ahmadi wrote: > Hi, > > I am using USRP2+RFX2400 board and trying to adapt our packetized > communication on the board. As I understand the Ethernet does its > own packetization on information data and we don't like that. > therefore we are looking

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2, is that possible to skip the Ethernet and pass data through general purpose (physically accessible) inputs to the FPGA?

2010-09-01 Thread Nick Foster
Malihe, The USRP2 drivers are designed to abstract the user from the device transport, and in normal use you shouldn't have to concern yourself with the transport layer at all. You provide a stream of data in gnuradio, and the USRP2 provides a stream of data out the device (or vice versa). All

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Newbie question on USRP2, synchronization done by the FPGA?,

2010-09-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
That's no different than a straight analog receiver though, where LO phase is generally not coherent with carrier or modulation phase. So you use PLL or similar demodulators to recover carrier phase Amiright? -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Newbie question on USRP2, synchronization done by the FPGA?,

2010-09-01 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Sam Keene wrote: > Ok, thanks, One more question... So does that mean we control the NCO from > the software? > > I will have a look at those blocks. > > thanks, > > -Sam No, the NCO is free running. We compensate for it in software. Tom > --- On *Wed, 9/1/

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Newbie question on USRP2, synchronization done by the FPGA?,

2010-09-01 Thread Sam Keene
Ok, thanks, One more question... So does that mean we control the NCO from the software? I will have a look at those blocks. thanks, -Sam --- On Wed, 9/1/10, Tom Rondeau wrote: From: Tom Rondeau Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Newbie question on USRP2, synchronization done by the FPGA?, T

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2, is that possible to skip the Ethernet and pass data through general purpose (physically accessible) inputs to the FPGA?

2010-09-01 Thread Malihe Ahmadi
Hi, I am using USRP2+RFX2400 board and trying to adapt our packetized communication on the board. As I understand the Ethernet does its own packetization on information data and we don't like that. therefore we are looking into avoid passing our information data to the board through Ethernet.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Newbie question on USRP2, synchronization done by the FPGA?,

2010-09-01 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Sam Keene wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the reply. I guess I am just trying to better understand this > diagram: > > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/linuxjournal/articles/073/7319/7319f3.inline.jpg > > I understand what the decimating filters are

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Newbie question on USRP2, synchronization done by the FPGA?,

2010-09-01 Thread Sam Keene
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I guess I am just trying to better understand this diagram: http://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/linuxjournal/articles/073/7319/7319f3.inline.jpg I understand what the decimating filters are doing, but I'm a little unclear about the NCO. Does this compon

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Newbie question on USRP2, synchronization done by the FPGA?

2010-09-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/01/2010 06:47 PM, Sam Keene wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if this is a simple question. I'm trying to figure out what > synchronization is done by the FPGA on the USRP2. Does it perform both > phase and freq synch? If I want to implement a simple digital > modulation tx-rx, do I just need to do tim

[Discuss-gnuradio] Newbie question on USRP2, synchronization done by the FPGA?

2010-09-01 Thread Sam Keene
 Hi, Sorry if this is a simple question. I'm trying to figure out what synchronization is done by the FPGA on the USRP2. Does it perform both phase and freq synch? If I want to implement a simple digital modulation tx-rx, do I just need to do timing synchronization? Is there a simple example

[Discuss-gnuradio] usrp ets-inband repo

2010-09-01 Thread Eric Schneider
I have forked the Ettus github repo (usrp-fpga-mirror) and added a branch with my alternate rx-buffer / timestamp fixes. git://github.com/etschneider/usrp-fpga-inband.git Use the 'ets-inband' branch, I'm leaving master to follow the Ettus upstream. If anyone uses it, please let me know. --Eric

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP, GNURADIO, WINDOWS, APPLICATION HELP

2010-09-01 Thread Sam Evans
Hi everybody,     I would like to ask some questions regarding USRP. I really need some help. I got my USRP with a WBX and LP0410. I work on a computer running Windows XP. After I read many thing about how to install the GNU Radio in Windows environment I could install it using MingW.     I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2-FLEX2400 Transmit and Receive problems

2010-09-01 Thread Jason Abele
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 03:08:53PM -0400, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 09/01/2010 12:51 PM, Jason Abele wrote: > >>I'll need to do some re-soldering and burn-db-eeprom with USRP1 and > >>hopefully this > >>should fix the problem: > >>http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/1/USRPClockingNotes > >Also, sin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2-FLEX2400 Transmit and Receive problems

2010-09-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/01/2010 12:51 PM, Jason Abele wrote: I'll need to do some re-soldering and burn-db-eeprom with USRP1 and hopefully this should fix the problem: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/1/USRPClockingNotes Also, since you use UHD, you can change the daughterboard ID of a daughterboard on a U

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2-FLEX2400 Transmit and Receive problems

2010-09-01 Thread Jason Abele
> I'll need to do some re-soldering and burn-db-eeprom with USRP1 and hopefully > this > should fix the problem: > http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/1/USRPClockingNotes Also, since you use UHD, you can change the daughterboard ID of a daughterboard on a USRP2 from your host PC using: /share/uhd/u

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2-FLEX2400 Transmit and Receive problems

2010-09-01 Thread Matt Ettus
You are using a very old RFX2400 which is configured with its own onboard oscillators instead of using the master oscillator from the motherboard. You can reconfigure it to work with USRP2 by following the directions under "Synchronizing all daughterboard LOs" here: http://gnuradio.org/redm

[Discuss-gnuradio] Two different "rxpath" in one top_block, how to switch between them when the program is running?

2010-09-01 Thread shanki
hi all, recently, i want to put two different "rxpath" in one top_block, and switch them when the program is running, but i failed : class my_top_block(gr.top_block): def __init__(self, ..): gr.top_block.__init__(self) self.txpath = usrp_transmit_path.usrp_transmit_path(

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 and external RF tuner

2010-09-01 Thread Luca Pascale
Hi all, I am working with a usrp2+BasicRx and an external tuner with a 21.4 MHz IF output and a bandwidth of about 20 MHz. The same setup but with usrp1 (instead of usrp2) it's working well. Now I am injecting a tone at 21.45 MHz (-60 dBm) at the input of the BasicRX and set the usrp2 freq at 21.

[Discuss-gnuradio] No response when using self-compiled FPGA code

2010-09-01 Thread Matthias Schäfer
Hi List, I compiled the newest fpga code from the uhd-repository (u2_rev3) with Xilinx' ISE 12.2. I also used the newest firmware which is available online (20100901) and also tried some other versions but the USRP2 does not send a response to arp requests or icmp ping messages. So uhd_usrp_

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] use of pulseaudio -- some parameters to call?

2010-09-01 Thread Alexandru Csete
Hi Michael, Unfortunately I do not have any good answers to your questions, but I have added some comments below that might help. On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Michael Hartje wrote: > Opensuse 11.3 uses pulseaudio as a standard audio-io. Gnuradio 3.3.x > offers alsa audiosink and audiosource.

[Discuss-gnuradio] use of pulseaudio -- some parameters to call?

2010-09-01 Thread Michael Hartje
Opensuse 11.3 uses pulseaudio as a standard audio-io. Gnuradio 3.3.x offers alsa audiosink and audiosource. When I put "pulse" as parameter for the "device_name" in GRC, with "verbose" in the "~/.gnuradio/config.conf" I got information about samplerate and other parameters (see below) -- in my cas