[Discuss-gnuradio] Measuring the noise floor of the BASIC_RX on USRP2.

2010-10-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I did some experiments tonight, to check the sensitivity of the BASIC_RX, to try to decide how much gain I really need in front of it for one of my projects. I have a signal at about -32dBm, and verified the pk-pk voltage on a good oscilloscope, using a 50-ohm load in front of the scope, to ma

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] File sink causes "S" errors

2010-10-05 Thread Thomas Hobiger
Hi Josh, How is the sustained rate when you simultaneously run rx_streaming_samples (without dump) and dd? :-) Acutally, the result I got is more than unexpected. :o) Running dd in one terminal and rx_streaming_samples in a second terminal gives me this: Terminal 1: |> dd if=/dev/zero

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] File sink causes "S" errors

2010-10-05 Thread Thomas Hobiger
Oops.. typo If I read directly from /dev/urandom the whole performance goes down as random numbers can be generated fast enough If I read directly from /dev/urandom the whole performance goes down as random numbers can't be generated fast enough __

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] File sink causes "S" errors

2010-10-05 Thread Thomas Hobiger
Hi, Try /dev/random instead of /dev/zero. SSDs are known to use data compression algorithms to run-length-encode drive data on the fly, to increase bandwidth and reduce data replication on the drive. It's possible that your drive is performing write optimization on your test which is not applica

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] File sink causes "S" errors

2010-10-05 Thread Seth David Schoen
Nick Foster writes: > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/SSD/test.bin bs=1000K count=1000 > > 1000+0 records in > > 1000+0 records out > > 102400 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 9.76347 s, 105 MB/s > > > > Try /dev/random instead of /dev/zero. SSDs are known to use data > compression algorithms to run-length-en

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] File sink causes "S" errors

2010-10-05 Thread Nick Foster
On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 13:17 +0900, Thomas Hobiger wrote: > Dear all, > > Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. > > > > Can you benchmark your hard disk for sustained rate? > > Here are the results from a simple DD test > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/SSD/test.bin bs=1K count=100 > 10

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] File sink causes "S" errors

2010-10-05 Thread Josh Blum
How is the sustained rate when you simultaneously run rx_streaming_samples (without dump) and dd? :-) Here are the results from a simple DD test | > dd if=/dev/zero of=/SSD/test.bin bs=1K count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 102400 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 11.5431 s, 88.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio via MacPorts Updated

2010-10-05 Thread Mark J. Blair
On Sep 7, 2010, at 7:28 AM, Michael Dickens wrote: > I've updated the GNU Radio install via MacPorts to 3.3.0. I'm sorry that I'm so terribly late trying this out, but I got distracted from working with gnuradio stuff for a while. I finally got around to trying this tonight, and it seems to be

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] File sink causes "S" errors

2010-10-05 Thread Thomas Hobiger
Dear all, Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. Can you benchmark your hard disk for sustained rate? Here are the results from a simple DD test | > dd if=/dev/zero of=/SSD/test.bin bs=1K count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 102400 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 11.5431

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] File sink causes "S" errors

2010-10-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 10/05/2010 09:35 PM, Thomas Hobiger wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am running a USRP2 with a DBSRX and talking to the hardware via raw > ethernet. Running GRC goes well (e.g. doing a real-time FFT spectrum), > but when I start recording on disc I get many "S" messages ("2 > successive packets whic

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] File sink causes "S" errors

2010-10-05 Thread Davek
Raid 0 with sata3 drives or 15k scsi drives maybe? Or if your rich... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227499&Tpk=OCZSSDPCIE Sent from my iPad On Oct 5, 2010, at 11:18 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Josh Blum wrote: >> Can you benchmark your

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] File sink causes "S" errors

2010-10-05 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Josh Blum wrote: > Can you benchmark your hard disk for sustained rate? > > I don't think that most disks, even SSD,s can sustain a write rate of 25Msps > @ 4 bytes a sample (if you are capturing shorts) = 100MB/s > > -Josh > > On 10/05/2010 06:35 PM, Thomas Hobige

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] File sink causes "S" errors

2010-10-05 Thread Josh Blum
Can you benchmark your hard disk for sustained rate? I don't think that most disks, even SSD,s can sustain a write rate of 25Msps @ 4 bytes a sample (if you are capturing shorts) = 100MB/s -Josh On 10/05/2010 06:35 PM, Thomas Hobiger wrote: Hi everybody, I am running a USRP2 with a DBSRX an

[Discuss-gnuradio] File sink causes "S" errors

2010-10-05 Thread Thomas Hobiger
Hi everybody, I am running a USRP2 with a DBSRX and talking to the hardware via raw ethernet. Running GRC goes well (e.g. doing a real-time FFT spectrum), but when I start recording on disc I get many "S" messages ("2 successive packets which do not have 2 successive sequence numbers") after

[Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio roadmap

2010-10-05 Thread Pandeya, Neel L.
Hello: What is the roadmap for GNU Radio releases over the next 12 to 18 months?? What new features are planned?? Will the next release be a minor release (3.3.1), or major release (3.4.0)?? When is the next release planned for?? Any insight is much appreciated. Thanks. --Sunil

[Discuss-gnuradio] opencores dvbt core running on USRP?

2010-10-05 Thread Andrea Venturi
hi, i'm a long time lurker here but not very active or skilled on softradio so i could have miss any reference about a newly entered project in the opencores web site: http://opencores.org/project,dvbt_core do anyone know about this project? is this core supposed to run on the USRP2? doe

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 with WBX and LP0926 to receive GSM spectrum

2010-10-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 10/05/2010 04:30 PM, hafiz zimran wrote: > Hi > We have received USRP2 with WBX and LP0926 PCB Antenna on 19 August,2010. > We are trying to receive GSM spectrum ( Above 900MHz) but we are > getting the error USRP2: Channel 0 not receiving > USRP2: rx_samples(0 failed. > > When we run the comm

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 with WBX and LP0926 to receive GSM spectrum

2010-10-05 Thread hafiz zimran
Hi We have received USRP2 with WBX and LP0926 PCB Antenna on 19 August,2010. We are trying to receive GSM spectrum ( Above 900MHz) but we are getting the error USRP2: Channel 0 not receiving USRP2: rx_samples(0 failed.   When we run the command sudo usrp2_fft.py -f 900M , we are getting the same

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Stack exchange site

2010-10-05 Thread William Cox
This sounds like a good idea. I voted for it. -William On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:38 PM, chris.cauley wrote: > > I'm looking to start a stack exchange site for gnuradio. I'm new to using > gnuradio and I think this would be an excellent resource for asking > questions on how to use gnuradio. If an

[Discuss-gnuradio] How do you measure the channel impulse response?

2010-10-05 Thread sirjanselot
Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to measure the impulse response of a channel its coefficients. If you have any information on how to do that, please let me know. Thank you. - Jan -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/How-do-you-measure-the-channel-impulse-response--tp2

Re: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Full-duplex WBX

2010-10-05 Thread Jason Abele
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:46 AM, SergeNJ wrote: > If I want use one Antenna  for RX-TX on WBX ? > I tried RXTX input and it have  a lot less level on RX than RX2 ... in > software i choose TXRX  but  always better level on RX2 > why? Serge, That should not be the case, but it is always possible t

[Discuss-gnuradio] Transmit and receive at the same time using mimo_usrp

2010-10-05 Thread Per Zetterberg
Hi List, If have a special application were I use two USRP2 with XCVR2450. Sometimes the two USRP2s transmit, sometimes they receive, but sometimes one of them transmit and the other receives. My understanding is that I will have to create to simple_usrp objects, because with mimo_usrp either all

Re: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Full-duplex WBX

2010-10-05 Thread SergeNJ
Matt If I want use one Antenna for RX-TX on WBX ? I tried RXTX input and it have a lot less level on RX than RX2 ... in software i choose TXRX but always better level on RX2 why? Thanks Serge It is just like the RFX-series. Use the TX/RX port for transmit, and use the RX2 port for rec