Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to enable usrp1 in building uhd?

2010-11-04 Thread Josh Blum
or run cmake-gui and check the box for usrp1 :-) -Josh On 11/04/2010 09:15 PM, Kyle Zhou wrote: I am trying uhd with my usrp1. However, when I do cmake, it reported that "usrp1 support disabled by configure flag". usrp2 is enabled. It seems to me usrp1 is disabled by default? If I need to give

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to enable usrp1 in building uhd?

2010-11-04 Thread Josh Blum
So its looks like it found USB support. My guess is that you ran the configure again after installing libusb1.0. Either remove the CMakeCache.txt and re-run cmake, or run the cmake command with the option -DENABLE_USRP1=TRUE -Josh On 11/04/2010 09:15 PM, Kyle Zhou wrote: I am trying uhd with

[Discuss-gnuradio] How to enable usrp1 in building uhd?

2010-11-04 Thread Kyle Zhou
I am trying uhd with my usrp1. However, when I do cmake, it reported that "usrp1 support disabled by configure flag". usrp2 is enabled. It seems to me usrp1 is disabled by default? If I need to give some flags to cmake to enable usrp1? I have no experience in cmake before. Please help Thanks Kyle

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] High pass frequency response with LFRX boards

2010-11-04 Thread Drew Read
Yes! that seems to be doing it. After using u.set_dc_offset_cl_enable(0x0, 0xf) to disable the dc correction the Low Freq roll-off seems to be gone and my IQ looks a lot better. That's really excelent, I presume I'll still need to compensate for the dc in my flow graph now though... Many thanks! D

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gcc 4.5 and GNU Radio 3.3.0

2010-11-04 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Thursday, November 04, 2010 02:35:32 pm Tom Rondeau wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Eric Blossom wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:17:04AM -0700, Steve Mcmahon wrote: > >> It took me a while to get some time to go back to my openSUSE 11.3 > >> machine and regenerate the error messa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] High pass frequency response with LFRX boards

2010-11-04 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/04/2010 07:47 PM, Eric Brombaugh wrote: > > You're probably seeing the high-pass behavior of the RX DC offset > removal. There's a logical block inside the FPGA which integrates the > ADC DC offset and subtracts it from the incoming signal. > > This function isn't needed on the TX side. > > W

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] High pass frequency response with LFRX boards

2010-11-04 Thread Eric Brombaugh
On 11/04/2010 04:24 PM, Drew Read wrote: It seems that there is a very significant roll-off at lower frequencies on the receive side which pretty much makes it unusable for our baseband signals. The aformentioned forum post suggests that it is not caused by the LFRX board and so is likely to be

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] High pass frequency response with LFRX boards

2010-11-04 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/04/2010 07:24 PM, Drew Read wrote: > Hi All, > > We're seeing pretty much the same thing on the USRP1 as this: > http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/206912#900641 > > It seems that there is a very significant roll-off at lower > frequencies on the receive side which pretty much makes it unusable

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] time stamped transmission with usrp1 supported in UHD?

2010-11-04 Thread Josh Blum
USRP1 support is in the UHD, but no timestamps. -Josh On 11/04/2010 05:56 AM, Kyle Zhou wrote: I know time stamped tx/rx with usrp2 is supported in uhd. According to past posts, support for usrp1 was worked on. Could anyone give an update on that progress? Is it already done? Regards Kyle

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] precise transmit scheduling

2010-11-04 Thread Josh Blum
I am also very interested in this. I have had some success by using gr.message_source, and having a python thread that periodically pushes new data into the system by putting it on the message queue. Transmitter auto_tr is enabled so that when the usrp runs out of data it turns off the transmi

[Discuss-gnuradio] High pass frequency response with LFRX boards

2010-11-04 Thread Drew Read
Hi All, We're seeing pretty much the same thing on the USRP1 as this: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/206912#900641 It seems that there is a very significant roll-off at lower frequencies on the receive side which pretty much makes it unusable for our baseband signals. The aformentioned forum pos

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] precise transmit scheduling

2010-11-04 Thread Steven Clark
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Yan Nie wrote: > Dear all, > > I am developing a transmitter on USRP1 with LFTX daughterboard. This > transmitter sends a BPSK modulated Barker code sequence up-converting to a > frequency ranging from 1MHz to 20MHz. I implemented the transmission of the > whole se

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gcc 4.5 and GNU Radio 3.3.0

2010-11-04 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Eric Blossom wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:17:04AM -0700, Steve Mcmahon wrote: >> It took me a while to get some time to go back to my openSUSE 11.3 machine >> and regenerate the error message. Sorry, I should have done this when I made >> the initial post.

[Discuss-gnuradio] precise transmit scheduling

2010-11-04 Thread Yan Nie
Dear all,I am developing a transmitter on USRP1 with LFTX daughterboard. This transmitter sends a BPSK modulated Barker code sequence up-converting to a frequency ranging from 1MHz to 20MHz. I implemented the transmission of the whole sequence in one fixed frequency in the requried range on one USR

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CPU Utilization and USRP2

2010-11-04 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Marc Epard wrote: > This reminds me of a question. What do you guys use for profiling native code > on Linux? I have a lot more experience on Mac OS where we have Shark, > Instruments and the like. > > -Marc Generally, I've used Oprofile. I have recently been exp

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CPU Utilization and USRP2

2010-11-04 Thread Josh Blum
On 11/04/2010 01:25 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 11/04/2010 03:23 PM, Josh Blum wrote: Well, there is extra overhead. A "pirate" thread in the the receive path spins on the socket and inspects the contents. The packet may be an asynchronous message packet for flow control or destined for the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CPU Utilization and USRP2

2010-11-04 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 03:07:42PM -0500, Marc Epard wrote: > This reminds me of a question. What do you guys use for profiling > native code on Linux? I have a lot more experience on Mac OS where > we have Shark, Instruments and the like. Marc, I like to use oprofile. It's packaged for Fedora

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gcc 4.5 and GNU Radio 3.3.0

2010-11-04 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:17:04AM -0700, Steve Mcmahon wrote: > It took me a while to get some time to go back to my openSUSE 11.3 machine > and regenerate the error message. Sorry, I should have done this when I made > the initial post. > > So I successfully installed the following from source

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CPU Utilization and USRP2

2010-11-04 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/04/2010 03:23 PM, Josh Blum wrote: > Well, there is extra overhead. A "pirate" thread in the the receive > path spins on the socket and inspects the contents. The packet may be > an asynchronous message packet for flow control or destined for the > user. Or it may be a data packet, in which c

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 Rx triggering on PPS ... help

2010-11-04 Thread Michael Civ
Hello all, I am building a USRP2 receiver that captures and stores data on the rising edge of the pps input. Is there a gnuradio block or C++ function that would allow me to monitor the pps input or see when its rising or falling edges occur? Thanks, Mike

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CPU Utilization and USRP2

2010-11-04 Thread Marc Epard
This reminds me of a question. What do you guys use for profiling native code on Linux? I have a lot more experience on Mac OS where we have Shark, Instruments and the like. -Marc On Nov 4, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Josh Blum wrote: > Well, there is extra overhead. A "pirate" thread in the the receive

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CPU Utilization and USRP2

2010-11-04 Thread Josh Blum
Well, there is extra overhead. A "pirate" thread in the the receive path spins on the socket and inspects the contents. The packet may be an asynchronous message packet for flow control or destined for the user. Or it may be a data packet, in which case it is placed into a queue to be popped of

[Discuss-gnuradio] CPU Utilization and USRP2

2010-11-04 Thread David Campbell
Hi All, I've noticed that the C++ interfaces provided in gnu-radio and UHD for usrp2 data streaming are CPU-intensive (UHD moreso than gnu-radio). I am wondering if there are easy ways to mitigate this or are there plans in the future to diminish these. For UHD a decimate by 16 process che

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gcc 4.5 and GNU Radio 3.3.0

2010-11-04 Thread Gregor Dschung
You don't need to build everything by your own. Just download the RPMs from http://software.opensuse.org, put them on your usb-stick and install them with "rpm -Uvh blablub.rpm" As I mentioned above, it's no big deal to install and use an older gcc-version. Alternatively, you could try to patch t

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2+WBX RX gain problems

2010-11-04 Thread Vladutzzz
Dear all! Myself and my colaborators have 2 USRP2+WBX boards. We use them in the 500-700 MHz band. The boards worked just fine until today, when we have used a stronger input signal generated by an Agilent signal generator connected directly via cable. The generated signal, a 2 MHz - large wideb

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gcc 4.5 and GNU Radio 3.3.0

2010-11-04 Thread Steve Mcmahon
It took me a while to get some time to go back to my openSUSE 11.3 machine and regenerate the error message. Sorry, I should have done this when I made the initial post. So I successfully installed the following from source under openSUSE 11.3: Cheetah-2.4.2.1.tar.gz Markdown-2.0.3.tar.gz cppun

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: ATSC decoding - Now Working!

2010-11-04 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 12:30:51AM -0400, Achilleas Anastasopoulos wrote: > Nick and others, > > I have decoded a capture of ATSC that Nick provided (many thanks). > Here are some numbers for double-checking: > 3) the output of the field_sync_demux (pipe_5) is ~455MB which i don't > know what it

[Discuss-gnuradio] Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

2010-11-04 Thread Ed Criscuolo
I just followed the build instructions for GnuRadio 3.3.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. All the dependencies updated/installed without trouble, and the ./configure make sudo make install worked fine. However, trying to run gnuradio-compainion failed, and produced a misleading suggestion to check the PYTH

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] throttle blocks and GUI responsiveness

2010-11-04 Thread Dan Harasty
Tom, Thanks for the input. I follow your philosophical point: multiple rate limiting blocks are at best redundant, and at worst may cause problems. But in my case, I'm trying get something "nearly synchronized" with a user-interface action: a button press. Thus, all the buffering is workin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] throttle blocks and GUI responsiveness

2010-11-04 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Dan Harasty wrote: > Hello, all. > > I'm still getting up to speed on gnuradio (does that make me a gnoob? > or maybe a gnuub?)...  ;-) > > Anyway, to learn how to instrument a simple flowgraph with a wxPython GUI > elements, I conceived of something simple to j

[Discuss-gnuradio] Preamble

2010-11-04 Thread Tobias Schmid
Hi, I found the appended THread in the archive. That time, there was no answer to this mail. But I have exactly the same problem to understand the architecture of the packets. It would be nice, if anyone could write a short explanation why the \x55 and the preamble are added to the packet.

[Discuss-gnuradio] time stamped transmission with usrp1 supported in UHD?

2010-11-04 Thread Kyle Zhou
I know time stamped tx/rx with usrp2 is supported in uhd. According to past posts, support for usrp1 was worked on. Could anyone give an update on that progress? Is it already done? Regards Kyle ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] questions about USRP2 sink block and upconversion

2010-11-04 Thread Markus Heller M.A. (relix GmbH)
Hi Marcus, thanks a lot for sending the flowgraph. I completely understand it and I am very confident that I can get this going. Only thing, I currently don't have an external 3,5mm plugged microphone :-) BR Markus DL8RDS Am Mittwoch, den 03.11.2010, 23:54 -0400 schrieb Marcus D. Leech: > On 11/