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

2010-09-02 Thread Joseph Wamicha
Hi, Thank you. Tx/Rx on the old Flex2400 using the usrp2 is now working. On 01/09/2010 21:41, Jason Abele wrote: 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 USR

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

2010-09-02 Thread Michael Hartje
Hi Alex, > Can you actually get usable audio in and out when you use "pulse" for > device? Yes (OpenSuSe) -- this is the only way to get some audio operation with GnuRadio on top of pulseaudio here. > I use Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 and none of my computers are able > to work with that setting. I hav

[Discuss-gnuradio] More test bench stuff with usrp_std

2010-09-02 Thread Nelson Costa
Hi all, I'm trying to modify the test bench provided with the standard USRP verilog code to work with the latest version of the usrp_std module.  I'm using the 2rx 0tx config.  My problem is that I don't think I'm initializing the usrp_std module properly; I'm not sure of the order of even

[Discuss-gnuradio] usrp2::rx_samples() failed when switching rx_path using the latest git_trunk

2010-09-02 Thread Patrik Eliardsson
Hi, What could be the reason for this error? "usrp2: channel 0 not receiving usrp2::rx_samples() failed" >From some previously post, Johnathan said that this should be fixed in >releases after 3.2.2 I'm using the latest git trunk version, I've change the firmware (to txrx_raw_eth_20100608.bin

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

2010-09-02 Thread Jack Ott
The strange thing is that when the fft's sample rate is at 25Msps which equals the USRP's bandwidth at a decimation of 4 everything works fine with the regular fft sink yet not with the OpenGL one. However when I increase the fft's sample rate to 50Msps which is 2x the USRP's bandwidth both sinks

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

2010-09-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/02/2010 10:09 AM, Jack Ott wrote: > The strange thing is that when the fft's sample rate is at 25Msps which > equals the USRP's bandwidth at a decimation of 4 everything works fine with > the regular fft sink yet not with the OpenGL one. However when I increase > the fft's sample rate to 50Ms

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

2010-09-02 Thread Matt Ettus
On 09/02/2010 07:09 AM, Jack Ott wrote: The strange thing is that when the fft's sample rate is at 25Msps which equals the USRP's bandwidth at a decimation of 4 everything works fine with the regular fft sink yet not with the OpenGL one. However when I increase the fft's sample rate to 50Msps wh

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

2010-09-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/02/2010 11:39 AM, Matt Ettus wrote: > > > If you have unaccelerated OpenGL, then the OpenGL version will be > unacceptably slow. > > Matt > Any idea how you *tell* if your OpenGL is accelerated or not? How does this relate to the Direct Rendering Manager in the X server? -- Marcus Leech

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

2010-09-02 Thread William Cox
Sam, Coming from a Windows user, I have to say that switching to Ubuntu was 1) extremely easy and 2) greatly accelerated my understand and ability to use GNURadio/USRP - mainly because I could use the GRC, which is a Labview-like graphical interface to GNURadio and USRP. I'd *highly* recommend giv

[Discuss-gnuradio] Dimension of the y axis using usrp_oscope.py

2010-09-02 Thread Fabian Steiner
Hello! I am doing some experiments using usrp_oscope.py. I am especially interested in comparing the values obtained from the usrp devices and those measured from a traditional oscope. Unfortunately one can't find any hint which dimension (volts, etc.) is used for displaying the graph. Thanks a l

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

2010-09-02 Thread Alexandru Csete
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 09/02/2010 11:39 AM, Matt Ettus wrote: >> >> >> If you have unaccelerated OpenGL, then the OpenGL version will be >> unacceptably slow. >> >> Matt >> > Any idea how you *tell* if your OpenGL is accelerated or not? I know several ways tha

[Discuss-gnuradio] Detecting transmit underruns on UHD

2010-09-02 Thread Marc Epard
With UHD, how can I programmatically detect when transmit underruns have occurred? I see Us in the output both on the host and from the USRP2 serial port, but I haven't spotted an API to test for this condition. -Marc ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing li

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

2010-09-02 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 08:39, Matt Ettus wrote: > I think you are missing the point here.  There is no need to lie to the > program.  If you are sending the FFT sink 25 MS/s, then tell it you are > sending it 25 MS/s.  If you give it a different rate you will have all sorts > of other issues, lik

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Dimension of the y axis using usrp_oscope.py

2010-09-02 Thread William Cox
It will be completely dependent on your receiver chain. My understanding is that the values you are seeing are the output of the ADC, so you'll need to figure out what the voltages at that point are. Perhaps someone else can be more helpful, but you'll need to do the legwork. What receiver are you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Detecting transmit underruns on UHD

2010-09-02 Thread Josh Blum
See recv async message: http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/doxygen/html/classuhd_1_1device.html#afe4ec312d71c669fbd86ce9a7d350605 And the async metadata: http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/doxygen/html/structuhd_1_1async__metadata__t.html -Josh On 09/02/2010 12:58 PM, Marc Epard wrote: With UHD, how

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

2010-09-02 Thread Jack Ott
Marcus D. Leech wrote: > > On 09/02/2010 11:39 AM, Matt Ettus wrote: >> >> >> If you have unaccelerated OpenGL, then the OpenGL version will be >> unacceptably slow. >> >> Matt >> > Any idea how you *tell* if your OpenGL is accelerated or not? How does > this relate to the Direct Rendering Man

[Discuss-gnuradio] UHD recv timestamp differs from stream command time spec

2010-09-02 Thread Marc Epard
I'm using a USRP2 with UHD and starting a receive a short time in the future. I have an external reference and PPS. Below is the pertinent code, slightly simplified. The timestamp returned in the metadata by recv is always off a little from the time I requested in the stream command. The amount

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Detecting transmit underruns on UHD

2010-09-02 Thread Eric Schneider
Oh cool! When was that implemented? I missed it... I assume there is no problem with timeout = 0? Is the interface thread safe? read/write/recv_async? --Eric On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 13:23 -0400, Josh Blum wrote: > See recv async message: > http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/doxygen/html/classuhd_1_1d

[Discuss-gnuradio] use of a "bulletin board" system in lieu of a mailing-list discussion

2010-09-02 Thread Dan Harasty
Hello, all. OK, I know I'm just the "new guy" here, and it may be poor form to suggest that a well established forum should change its ways But I find the email-based discussion list VERY inefficient. - any sense of "threading" of a conversation is lost (at least for me: I receive the "d

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Detecting transmit underruns on UHD

2010-09-02 Thread Marc Epard
On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Josh Blum wrote: > See recv async message: > http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/doxygen/html/classuhd_1_1device.html#afe4ec312d71c669fbd86ce9a7d350605 > > And the async metadata: > http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/doxygen/html/structuhd_1_1async__metadata__t.html Thanks, J

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD recv timestamp differs from stream command time spec

2010-09-02 Thread Matt Ettus
On 09/02/2010 10:39 AM, Marc Epard wrote: I'm using a USRP2 with UHD and starting a receive a short time in the future. I have an external reference and PPS. Below is the pertinent code, slightly simplified. The timestamp returned in the metadata by recv is always off a little from the time I re

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] use of a "bulletin board" system in lieu of a mailing-list discussion

2010-09-02 Thread William Cox
Dan, Other than the difficulty of setting up and maintaining the site, I think it's a fabulous idea! Then again, I'm just as new as you are, but in general I think it would be *way* better. Especially for new folks jumping in and learning all the past body of knowledge. -William On Thu, Sep 2, 20

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] use of a "bulletin board" system in lieu of a mailing-list discussion

2010-09-02 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 01:47:34PM -0400, Dan Harasty wrote: > Hello, all. > > OK, I know I'm just the "new guy" here, and it may be poor form to > suggest that a well established forum should change its ways :-) > But I find the email-based discussion list VERY inefficient. > - any sense o

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 UHD consecutive tx timestamps

2010-09-02 Thread Eric Schneider
I would like to be able to send a continuous stream of tx packets, each with a timestamp, such that if one is dropped, the next will be transmitted at the correct time. My use case involves CDMA test signal generation, and currently a dropped packet causes a total loss of sync on the test devices (

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] use of a "bulletin board" system in lieu of a mailing-list discussion

2010-09-02 Thread Matt Ettus
On 09/02/2010 10:47 AM, Dan Harasty wrote: Hello, all. OK, I know I'm just the "new guy" here, and it may be poor form to suggest that a well established forum should change its ways But I find the email-based discussion list VERY inefficient. A lot of people on here seem to use Nabble

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Detecting transmit underruns on UHD

2010-09-02 Thread Josh Blum
On 09/02/2010 01:54 PM, Marc Epard wrote: On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Josh Blum wrote: See recv async message: http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/doxygen/html/classuhd_1_1device.html#afe4ec312d71c669fbd86ce9a7d350605 And the async metadata: http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/doxygen/html/structuhd_

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Detecting transmit underruns on UHD

2010-09-02 Thread Josh Blum
On 09/02/2010 01:46 PM, Eric Schneider wrote: Oh cool! When was that implemented? I missed it... http://old.nabble.com/UHD-Announcement---August-16th-2010-td29457066.html I assume there is no problem with timeout = 0? should be fine Is the interface thread safe? read/write/recv_async?

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

2010-09-02 Thread Malihe Ahmadi
Hi Eric, thanks for the insightful reply. I will be using these pins for my design. what else is provided to the board through Ethernet? If I understand correct, the configuration data for DAC (such as the IF frequency, etc) is provided through Ethernet, but we don't really want to change those

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD recv timestamp differs from stream command time spec

2010-09-02 Thread Marc Epard
On Sep 2, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Matt Ettus wrote: > [An excellent answer.] Thanks! -Marc ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

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

2010-09-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/02/2010 02:48 PM, Malihe Ahmadi wrote: I need 5 mega bit per sec of bandwidth and if I understand correct the rate of CMII_TX_CLK is 100 mega bit per second which is higher than what I want. The first reason I don't like GiGe is that it chunks the data and it can cause delay in its stream

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 FPGA Compiling

2010-09-02 Thread SteveChrepta
I downloaded the ise12 branch of the fpga code. Compiled it using the makefile, and ISE12.2 gui tool. Both did not work in the usrp2, giving the same results...what a shame. SteveChrepta wrote: > > I am preparing to make small changes to the fpga code. First I wanted to > compile the latest f

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

2010-09-02 Thread Malihe Ahmadi
Hi Nick, Actually we are using the USRP2 not for a SDR application, but we are using it to test our physical layer asynchronous backet based communication. For that I have to change the FPGA code and remove the interpolation/decimation and replace it with a spreading scheme. for that I need t

[Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd: problem with address book upload and mailing lists [Ticket: 100829-000092]

2010-09-02 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
FYI, I guess the linkedIn spam mail issue is solved. Best regards, Aaron. Begin forwarded message: > > LinkedIn Customer Support Message > Subject: problem with address book upload and mailing lists > Hi Aaron, > > No, only the "discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org" was used on the member's account. >

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

2010-09-02 Thread Malihe Ahmadi
Hi Nick, Actually we are using the USRP2 not for a SDR application, but we are using it to test our physical layer asynchronous backet based communication. For that I have to change the FPGA code and remove the interpolation/decimation and replace it with a spreading scheme. for that I need t

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

2010-09-02 Thread Nick Foster
Malihe, > Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:19:54 -0600 > From: ahmad...@ualberta.ca > Actually we are using the USRP2 not for a SDR application, but we are > using it to test our physical layer asynchronous backet based > communication. For that I have to change the FPGA code and remove the > interp

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

2010-09-02 Thread Malihe Ahmadi
Hi MArcus, Assuming I want to use Ethernet, let's say I want to send the stream '011', and I pick DBPSK as the modulation. can you please explain what is the relation of the DBPSK modulated data and "GMII_RXD" input to the FPGA or "sample" input to the dsp_core_tx? is that FPGA receives 8

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 and external RF tuner

2010-09-02 Thread Matt Ettus
The BasicRX has no amplification. Its full scale amplitude is +10dBm. The ADC in the USRP2 has a rated SFDR of 88dBFS. That means you may see spurs at levels high as -78dBm equivalent when using a BasicRX. In the plots you sent me, your signal is -50 dBm and the spur is more than 40 dB lo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Dimension of the y axis using usrp_oscope.py

2010-09-02 Thread Fabian Steiner
Hello - > It will be completely dependent on your receiver chain. My understanding > is > that the values you are seeing are the output of the ADC, so you'll need > to > figure out what the voltages at that point are. Perhaps someone else can > be > more helpful, but you'll need to do the legwork.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 FPGA Compiling

2010-09-02 Thread Matt Ettus
Works fine for everyone else, but we are using ISE 12.1. It shouldn't be different, though. The most likely problem is programming the SD card incorrectly. Matt On 09/02/2010 11:59 AM, SteveChrepta wrote: I downloaded the ise12 branch of the fpga code. Compiled it using the makefile, a

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

2010-09-02 Thread Malihe Ahmadi
Hi Nick, I think I should explain my project better. We are developing a physical layer protocol for an asynchronous packet based transceiver all in Verilog. The design has been simulated so far using ModelSim. The target of the project is the VLSI fabrication of this design. Thus all the sig

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

2010-09-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/02/2010 05:11 PM, Malihe Ahmadi wrote: > Hi MArcus, > Assuming I want to use Ethernet, let's say I want to send the stream > '011', and I pick DBPSK as the modulation. can you please explain > what is the relation of the DBPSK modulated data and "GMII_RXD" input > to the FPGA or "sample"

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

2010-09-02 Thread Nick Foster
Malihe, Your understanding is basically correct. I misunderstood your request -- I didn't realize you had an existing FPGA design you were integrating with the USRP2, and figured you were going about things the hard way. Nothing happens to Ethernet packets between the host transmission and GMI

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] More test bench stuff with usrp_std

2010-09-02 Thread Nelson Costa
First mistake: the 2rx 0tx doesn't actually work (or I'm too stupid to make it work :)  I'm using the default 2rx 2tx config, and the usrp_std module is now responding to input, although it's not showing me what I want yet. Has anyone else had experience writing test benches for the full chip?