Fwd: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP1 USB I/F failure & repair

2009-05-18 Thread Ryan Seal
On Mon, 18 May 2009 19:26:58 -0400, Marcus D. Leech wrote: Matt Ettus wrote: Paul Mathews wrote: Paul, Thanks for your analysis of the situation. C73 and C74 are not actually capacitors, they are, as you say, electrostatic discharge protectors, part number PESD0402-060. I have not seen any

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] update: new FX2 firmware / boosted USB bandwidth

2009-05-09 Thread Ryan Seal
On Sat, 09 May 2009 18:01:12 -0400, Dominik Auras wrote: Hi! Well, as I promised, I am going to share my results with the community. So here it is: http://www.dominikauras.de/gnuradio/usrp_fx2.html Condensed into a patch file. I have uploaded a few bitstreams and a binary of the fir

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] howto make

2009-03-22 Thread Ryan Seal
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:51:55 -0400, William Harding wrote: When I try to make the howto package (from the "How to write a signal processing block" tutorial), I get and error which says: Version mismatch error. This is libtool 2.2.6, but the definition of this LT_INIT comes from libtool 2

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Rev4 FX2 firmware question. InitializingFIFOs ?

2009-03-21 Thread Ryan Seal
In DSP based radar related systems I've worked on, gating typically occurs as close as possible to the data acq side, rather than close to the CPU or intermediate data transfer circuitry. Can't you zero ADC input inside the FPGA on the alignment that you need and basically let the system "push

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Rev4 FX2 firmware question. Initializing FIFOs ?

2009-03-20 Thread Ryan Seal
I have been working on modifications to the USRP board so that I can pass a gating signal through the basic RX daughterboard to gate signal collection for a pulsed radar application. This is somewhat working, but I am having problems with data alignment when stopping and starting the system

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] external 1pps pulse

2007-03-16 Thread Ryan Seal
Hans Glitsch wrote: Hello,   I currently have four complex input signals coming in through USB and I have a 1pps timing pulse coming from a gps source  that I need to synchronize the 64MHz clock to and also pass on to the PC so that I know exactly which sample it occurred

Re: FPGA's are Software Defined (was Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] regarding fft-ifft processing)

2007-03-07 Thread Ryan Seal
Marcus Leech wrote: Robert McGwier wrote: The wideband engine, Mercury: http://hpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=MERCURY is almost ready to release and its accompanying transmitter Penelope will follow shortly. BOTH of these boards will have ANOTHER Cyclone II on them with almost 100% of the

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] Hard Disk Bottleneck

2007-02-09 Thread Ryan Seal
Vincenzo Pellegrini wrote: Hi everybody, just a quick question: has anybody managed so far to provide the usrp with the 8 Complex Msps needed to transmit an 8 MHz wide band? My problem is that such a bandwidth yields a 32MiBps throughput and, even if the USB2 bus and the CPU speed of my machine

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ebuild for GNU Radio for Gentoo users

2007-01-16 Thread Ryan Seal
This is good news. I was wondering when something like this would happen. Thanks again, Ryan Kyle wrote: For any Gentoo users out there I've created a couple of ebuilds to install GNU Radio and, more importantly, its dependencies. The 3.0.2 tarball based ebuild has been submitted to the Gentoo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] New Software Defined Receiver soon to be available

2007-01-02 Thread Ryan Seal
Philip Covington wrote: Highlights: 16 bit 130 MSPS ADC HPF, LPF, RF AMP Switchable Front End 0-31.5 dB Attenuator in 0.5 dB steps Cyclone II FPGA Two AD6620 DDC co-processors USB 2.0 480 Mbps High Speed Interface to PC 0.1 to 33 MHz coverage (0.1 to 65 MHz extended) RX bandwidths from 33 MHz to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GUI python apps don't update controls,

2006-12-05 Thread Ryan Seal
I am working on the plotting widgets every chance I get. At the moment this is not at the top of my list but I am making progress. I have run into one problem with wxWidgets that someone might be able to answer: Using the DrawRotatedText function from the wxDC class seems to produce a clipped,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Any Octave/Matlab folks on the list?

2006-11-30 Thread Ryan Seal
For what it's worth, matplotlib http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ produces beautiful contour plots. It is python based and easy to use. --Ryan L. Miguel Bazdresch Sierra wrote: Marcus Leech, el 11/29/06 22:12: I have some X,Y,Z data that I want to turn into a gray or colour mapped contour

[Discuss-gnuradio] Oscilloscope/FFT layout, data source, etc...

2006-11-30 Thread Ryan Seal
I have been working on a wxWidget based oscilloscope/spectrum widget and have a few questions: First, let me cover my idea of an oscilloscope/FFT program: 1. Data is provided from a source (USRP or file). 2. Data is formatted to fit the plotting window (transform matrix). 3. Data is sent to the

[Discuss-gnuradio] external clock question

2006-11-30 Thread Ryan Seal
I am using an external clock, currently at 64 MHz, but will drop to 50 MHz so I can place a 30MHz IF signal in the right spot for down-conversion. Here is my question: The file usrp_basic.h has the following member: long fpga_master_clock_freq () const { return 6400; } If I want my sys

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fft scope frequent hangs

2006-11-17 Thread Ryan Seal
Eric Blossom wrote: On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 11:15:22AM -0500, Don Ward wrote: I haven't been playing with the fft scope for a while until yesterday, when I realized that it frequently hangs on my fc5 with two weeks ago trunk gnuradio... The scope freezes (in all modes) and it needs to be ki

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fft scope frequent hangs

2006-11-17 Thread Ryan Seal
Don Ward wrote: I haven't been playing with the fft scope for a while until yesterday, when I realized that it frequently hangs on my fc5 with two weeks ago trunk gnuradio... The scope freezes (in all modes) and it needs to be killed to get the control back. No underruns or any messgae that co

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Signal loss after a short time

2006-11-07 Thread Ryan Seal
rom a frequency synthesizer so I think I was unconsciously making assumptions (bad news). Thanks for the reply, --Ryan Matt Ettus wrote: Ryan, I am looking into this problem. I will let you know if I find anything. You are using a 3.3V clock signal, right? Matt Ryan Seal wrote: Wh

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Sampling rate of USRP and data rate through USB

2006-11-06 Thread Ryan Seal
Lin Ji wrote: Hi, There is one thing that I can not figure out: The ADC on the USRP has a sampling rate at 64Msps, that is, for a data at 1Mbps, for every incoming bit there will be 64 samples. Suppose every sample is 16bits, the bit rate is 1024Mbps,that is a huge amount of data flow. Now

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Easiest way to perform vector cross correlation on USRP?

2006-11-05 Thread Ryan Seal
You don't use fast convolution when using an FPGA. Do this in the time domain. That's the purpose of using hardware over software. Expand your algorithm for complex cross correlation and you will end up with a string of simple algebraic terms. You will have to look at your losses using fixed

[Discuss-gnuradio] Signal loss after a short time

2006-11-02 Thread Ryan Seal
When running both usrp_oscope and usrp_fft, I lose the signal and the GUI becomes unresponsive after 5 - 30 minutes of operation. I had previously ran this system for more than 24 hours with an installation on a laptop back in July. Here is a short summary of my setup: 1. Dual HT Intel 64-bit

[Discuss-gnuradio] Strange loss of signal after a short time.

2006-11-02 Thread Ryan Seal
When running both usrp_oscope and usrp_fft, I lose the signal and the GUI becomes unresponsive after 5 - 30 minutes of operation. I had previously ran this system for more than 24 hours with an installation on a laptop back in July. Here is a short summary of my setup: 1. Dual HT Intel 64-bit