Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FSK with RFX2400

2008-07-23 Thread kaleem ahmad
Dear All, Can anyone also address the first part of my question aslo, I mean how to improve the quality of received data. I mean is it normal with GNU Radio/USRP that we receive so currupt data or I am doing something wrong. Any suggestion please... Thanks Matt Ettus wrote:

[Discuss-gnuradio] FIFOs

2008-07-23 Thread Sebastiaan Heunis
Hi I'm trying to write USRP data to a FIFO and read it out using a C++ app. I can't get it to work. What I did was to type 'mkfifo myfifo' in the shell. This is the output to ls -l myfifo. prw-r--r-- 1 sebastiaan sebastiaan 0 2008-07-23 14:20 myfifo I then tried to run my application, passing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FSK with RFX2400

2008-07-23 Thread trondeau
Quoting kaleem ahmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Dear All, > > Can anyone also address the first part of my question aslo, I mean how to > improve the quality of received data. I mean is it normal with GNU > Radio/USRP that we receive so currupt data or I am doing something wrong. > Any suggestion pl

[Discuss-gnuradio] make check on the Beagle Board

2008-07-23 Thread Philip Balister
I have nfs mounted the gnuradio build directory on the Beagle, (and synced the clocks with ntp). When "make check" gets to gnnuradio-core/src/tests, it looks like the test tries to run some command from the build system. If I run the individual test on the host I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tests

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FSK with RFX2400

2008-07-23 Thread kaleem ahmad
Hi, You can find attached the code for transmit and receive sides, and the file which I am sending (send.txt) and one which I am receiving (rcv.txt). You can see that nearly 80%-90% received data is corrupt. I am receiving around 50dBm at receiver antenna, and I have tried with both stations at l

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: FSK with RFX2400

2008-07-23 Thread Patrick Strasser
kaleem ahmad wrote am 2008-07-23 11:38: Dear All, Can anyone also address the first part of my question aslo, I mean how to improve the quality of received data. I mean is it normal with GNU Radio/USRP that we receive so currupt data or I am doing something wrong. Any suggestion please Before

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FSK with RFX2400

2008-07-23 Thread kaleem ahmad
I have just provided the information which can be helpful for you, and the code is also attached with it and a sample received file is also there along with actual sent file. Please just scroll up and you will find my message with all this information. Additionally OS is 'openSUSI' a favour of Li

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Gain

2008-07-23 Thread isaacgerg
Is there any documentation on what the gain does for the USRP receive and transmit functions. Sometimes it seems like these values are meaningless. Also, I am noticing that when I begin to Rx data, there is often a huge amplitude spike within the first 2k samples I Rx. Is this normal? -- Vie

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: FSK with RFX2400

2008-07-23 Thread Patrick Strasser
Hello Kaleem! kaleem ahmad wrote am 2008-07-23 15:58: If you have two USRP boards and two RFX2400 daughter cards then you can try these codes (fsk_tx.py and fsk_rx.py) using: Which version of GNU Radio are you using? Which cable/antenna setup do you use? You are hard coding your frequency. Y

[Discuss-gnuradio] how much is USRP board?

2008-07-23 Thread 董超(DONG Chao)
Hi all, I want to ask how much is a USRP board(1 motherboard and 4 daughterboards)?Where can I buy them in China? Thanks! DONG Chao___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: FSK with RFX2400

2008-07-23 Thread Patrick Strasser
kaleem ahmad wrote am 2008-07-23 16:23: I have just provided the information which can be helpful for you Seen it, just after I pressed the send button. Race condition ;-) Patrick -- Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast: choose any two Patrick Strasser Student of Telematik, Techn. University G

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Gain

2008-07-23 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 07:45:57AM -0700, isaacgerg wrote: > > Is there any documentation on what the gain does for the USRP receive and > transmit functions. Sometimes it seems like these values are meaningless. Sometimes they are fixed. Have you queried the valid ranges for the daughterboards

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FIFOs

2008-07-23 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 02:32:06PM +0200, Sebastiaan Heunis wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to write USRP data to a FIFO and read it out using a C++ > app. I can't get it to work. What I did was to type 'mkfifo myfifo' > in the shell. This is the output to ls -l myfifo. > > prw-r--r-- 1 sebastiaan

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FSK with RFX2400

2008-07-23 Thread Firas Abbas
Hi Kaleem, Each USRP has its on reference crystal oscillator. This oscillator may have maximum +/- 50 PPM ( Matt said the new USRPs has maximum 20 PPM) frequency error. Lets assume the error is 10 PPM in each USRP. This means, that at 2500 MHz (2.5 GHz) the error = 2500 * 10 = 25000 Hz = 25KHz.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how much is USRP board?

2008-07-23 Thread Firas A.
Hi, See: http://www.ettus.com/custom.html Firas -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-much-is-USRP-board--tp18612549p18613720.html Sent from the GnuRadio mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing li

[Discuss-gnuradio] Flipping problem

2008-07-23 Thread isaacgerg
I am sending a known sequence of samples from one USRP to another using the Basix RX/TX d'boards setting the frequency to 24e6. When I rx the sequence, the correlation of it keeps flipping, but not in a way that suggests residual carrier. It seems as if I am experiencing an instantaneous flip.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to see what kind of mac/phy schemes?

2008-07-23 Thread yyzhuang
As I see from the simple manual and some source code, most of the blocks are designed for PHY layer or hard ware. Should all the MAC layer functions implemented by python application, or are there any existing MAC layer blocks we can use directly? Thanks for help. Y yyzhuang wrote: > > Thanks

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to see what kind of mac/phy schemes?

2008-07-23 Thread George Nychis
There is currently no MAC layer support. There has been some work in supporting it through the new m-blocks, but I still believe there are pieces missing for tightly timed CSMA MACs. The timestamps are great for TDMA, but CSMA is still kind of left in the dark. I'm working on it as research

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to see what kind of mac/phy schemes?

2008-07-23 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:06:57AM -0700, yyzhuang wrote: > > As I see from the simple manual and some source code, most of the blocks are > designed for PHY layer or hard ware. Should all the MAC layer functions > implemented by python application, or are there any existing MAC layer > blocks we

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to see what kind of mac/phy schemes?

2008-07-23 Thread George Nychis
Eric Blossom wrote: In the relatively near term, I'll be gluing the message blocks (m-blocks) and the GR flow graphs together. When that is complete, I expect that what you'll find is that the natural place to write MAC layer stuff is in m-blocks while using the flow graph to implement the P

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to see what kind of mac/phy schemes?

2008-07-23 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:37:03PM -0400, George Nychis wrote: > > Eric Blossom wrote: > >> >> In the relatively near term, I'll be gluing the message blocks >> (m-blocks) and the GR flow graphs together. When that is complete, I >> expect that what you'll find is that the natural place to write M

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to see what kind of mac/phy schemes?

2008-07-23 Thread yyzhuang
Hi Eric, I haven't seen tutorials about how to use m-blocks yet. I'm curious and want to see how it works, although I'm not sure what I can get from it. Are there any examples about how to use the m-blocks in gnuradio-examples? Thanks Y Eric Blossom wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:06:5

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to see what kind of mac/phy schemes?

2008-07-23 Thread yyzhuang
Thanks George. I'm still exploring Gnu Radio. Since I'm a student in Computer Science, I know very little about PHY and hardware, but our group will work with Electrical Engineering people as well. Hope to see the new mac blocks. Y George Nychis wrote: > > There is currently no MAC layer suppo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to see what kind of mac/phy schemes?

2008-07-23 Thread George Nychis
yyzhuang wrote: Thanks George. I'm still exploring Gnu Radio. Since I'm a student in Computer Science, I know very little about PHY and hardware, but our group will work with Electrical Engineering people as well. I'm of a CS background, so I know exactly what you mean. Hang in there, what

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to see what kind of mac/phy schemes?

2008-07-23 Thread yyzhuang
Really thanks for the efforts. Surely more stuff will be added in the future. Maybe some day we can build up the entire protocol stack. George Nychis wrote: > > > > yyzhuang wrote: >> Thanks George. I'm still exploring Gnu Radio. Since I'm a student in >> Computer >> Science, I know very litt

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to see what kind of mac/phy schemes?

2008-07-23 Thread George Nychis
yyzhuang wrote: Really thanks for the efforts. Surely more stuff will be added in the future. Maybe some day we can build up the entire protocol stack. I think that GR has been great for PHY development and testing. If you follow academic research at all in the CS network realm, you'll fin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] inband timestamp issues

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Peters
Hi George, Thanks for the quick and thought-out response. I actually tried with the new rbf yesterday. It produces no noticeable differences in the output I'm interested in at this point. Second, we are not seeing any underrun. I have verified this in two ways. First, I check pkt->underrun()

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] inband timestamp issues

2008-07-23 Thread George Nychis
Steve Peters wrote: Hi George, Thanks for the quick and thought-out response. I actually tried with the new rbf yesterday. It produces no noticeable differences in the output I'm interested in at this point. Not getting an underrun is good. There may very well be an issue with the FPGA.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] inband timestamp issues

2008-07-23 Thread Ketan Mandke
George, I am sure that Steve will check the single rx-chain and get back to you with the results of that test. Although, I have a hypothesis about what might be happening. Is it possible that there are some control signals being sent to the USRP over the command channel that disable the rx_buffer

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] inband timestamp issues

2008-07-23 Thread George Nychis
George Nychis wrote: I spend all of my time working with the single chain, and if I find bugs I can fix them. But I think you're the only ones using the dual chain... so your feedback is useful and I'd appreciate any help solving the problems. I don't really know Verilog, and our Verilog c

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] inband timestamp issues

2008-07-23 Thread George Nychis
Ketan Mandke wrote: George, I am sure that Steve will check the single rx-chain and get back to you with the results of that test. Although, I have a hypothesis about what might be happening. Is it possible that there are some control signals being sent to the USRP over the command channel th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] inband timestamp issues

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Peters
> Ketan Mandke wrote: >> >> George, >> >> I am sure that Steve will check the single rx-chain and get back to >> you with the results of that test. >> >> Although, I have a hypothesis about what might be happening. Is it >> possible that there are some control signals being sent to the USRP >> over

[Discuss-gnuradio] FIFOS

2008-07-23 Thread Sebastiaan Heunis
Hi I managed to get the previous issue sorted. You guys were right, FIFOs are blocking, so you first need to open a read before you can start writing to it. Now I just have a question. How do I read this data in C++? At the moment I am using double *buf = new double; FILE* fifo = fopen("myf

[Discuss-gnuradio] Daughterboard Input Impediance

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas
Hi everyone, What is the input impedance for the TVRX and DBSRX daughterboards? The tuners used on the boards have 75Ω inputs according to the tuners' datasheets. Are the board inputs also 75Ω, or has something been done to convert them to 50Ω inputs? Thanks! Thomas

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Daughterboard Input Impediance

2008-07-23 Thread Matt Ettus
Thomas wrote: Hi everyone, What is the input impedance for the TVRX and DBSRX daughterboards? The tuners used on the boards have 75Ω inputs according to the tuners' datasheets. Are the board inputs also 75Ω, or has something been done to convert them to 50Ω inputs? The TVRX is really 75 o

[Discuss-gnuradio] 64MHz USRP Oscillator

2008-07-23 Thread Wireless Monster
Hi All, I am having lots of issues with the USRP 64MHz (20ppm) on board oscillator which does not allow me to get exact and constant RF frequencies out of the RFX900 board. I can not really fix that in SW so I was thinking about replacing the 64MHz crystal with a more precise one. Has anybody a s

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 64MHz USRP Oscillator

2008-07-23 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Wireless Monster wrote: Hi All, I am having lots of issues with the USRP 64MHz (20ppm) on board oscillator which does not allow me to get exact and constant RF frequencies out of the RFX900 board. I can not really fix that in SW so I was thinking about replacing the 64MHz crystal with a more

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 64MHz USRP Oscillator

2008-07-23 Thread Brian Padalino
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Wireless Monster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am having lots of issues with the USRP 64MHz (20ppm) on board oscillator > which does not allow me to get exact and constant RF frequencies out of the > RFX900 board. I can not really fix that in SW so I w

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 64MHz USRP Oscillator

2008-07-23 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Chris Stankevitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am having lots of issues with the USRP 64MHz (20ppm) on board >> oscillator which does not allow me to get exact and constant RF frequencies >> out of the RFX900 board. I can not really fix that in SW so I was think

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] inband timestamp issues

2008-07-23 Thread George Nychis
Steve Peters wrote: Just a quick follow-up to this. Last night I printed out diffs in the std::clock() function along with the timestamp diffs right after the packets are read. There are no jumps in the std::clock(), which tells me the timestamp jump is caused by something strange like the c

[Discuss-gnuradio] Channel measurements?

2008-07-23 Thread Jason Uher
Hey all, What is the best way to measure the channel for use in space-time coding schemes using an RFX2400 board? As far as I know you can only get the I and Q streams out of the USRP, and I'm not sure how you would get a set of channel coefficients. I am planning on using the conjugate of the m

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Channel measurements?

2008-07-23 Thread Brian Padalino
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Jason Uher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > What is the best way to measure the channel for use in space-time > coding schemes using an RFX2400 board? > > As far as I know you can only get the I and Q streams out of the USRP, > and I'm not sure how you wou

[Discuss-gnuradio] gr.multiply and file write

2008-07-23 Thread
Hi, I am reading two data streams from two files using the command Src1 = gr.file_source(gr.sizeof_short, "file1.dat") Src2 = gr.file_source(gr.sizeof_short, "file2.dat") I want to multiply the two data streams using multiply = gr.mul