[Discuss-gnuradio] run two usrp app on two usrp meet: usrp_standard_common: failed to read FPGA cap register.

2010-09-03 Thread John Wu
Hi all, I run two usrp apps on two usrp, each set the which usrp correctly, but meet usrp_standard_common: failed to read FPGA cap register when I run the second app. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/

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

2010-09-03 Thread Douglas Geiger
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Matt Ettus wrote: > 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

[Discuss-gnuradio] Adding a FFT to USRP2 design.

2010-09-03 Thread Matteo Carucci
Hi, i'm traying to add an FFT module to the the "base" design of the usrp2. I've found, in my opinion, where is the best place to add it. Between the module dsp_core_rx_old and the module rx_control. If i am right, the dsp_core_rx_old takes the input from the adc and takes out (doing decimation a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Adding a FFT to USRP2 design.

2010-09-03 Thread SteveChrepta
Hi Matteo, It sounds like you are using one of the BLOCK I/O xilinx FFT cores. As you said, the core loads the input i & q values, performs computation, then outputs the i & q FFT results. And yes, during the load and computation latency periods, there will be the lack of useable output samples

[Discuss-gnuradio] Help needed to understand scopesink2

2010-09-03 Thread Suleja, Lukasz
> I am using the following code snippet to view a 100kHz sinewave on a > virtual oscilloscope: > > self.interface_rate = 1e9 > self.src = gr.sig_source_c(self.interface_rate, gr.GR_SIN_WAVE, 1e3, > 1) > self.scope = scopesink2.scope_sink_c(panel, > sample_rate=self.interface_rate) > self.connect(s

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

2010-09-03 Thread Luca Pascale
Hi Matt, I have connected the RF tuner that provides (nominal) a gain of 30 dB. So the chain is (SIGGEN)--->(TUNER)--->(USRP2). The tuner itself introduces spurious signal (below -70dBm). The output spectrum is: a) without tuner (description is above the picture) http://imagebin.ca/view/ZTARvXd.h

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help needed to understand scopesink2

2010-09-03 Thread Alexandru Csete
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Suleja, Lukasz wrote: > I am using the following code snippet to view a 100kHz sinewave on a virtual > oscilloscope: > > self.interface_rate = 1e9 > self.src = gr.sig_source_c(self.interface_rate, gr.GR_SIN_WAVE, 1e3, 1) > self.scope = scopesink2.scope_sink_c(panel,

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help needed to understand scopesink2

2010-09-03 Thread Suleja, Lukasz
Thanks to Alex for pointing out a mistake in the code snippet, it should read: self.interface_rate = 1e6 # i.e. 1 MS/s -- Roke Manor Research Ltd, Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 0ZN, United Kingdom A Siemens company Registered in England & Wales at: Siemens plc, Faraday House, Sir William Siemens Squa

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

2010-09-03 Thread William Cox
You'll need to read the datasheet for the ADC. It's a AD9862. From there you'll know the full range. I suspect is south of 3.3v as that's the boards power supply. An easier solution is to use a precision function generator and calibrate. Send in a known signal and see what the graph displays. Chan

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

2010-09-03 Thread Jeffrey Lambert
Well, you haven't really provided enough information here. Assuming that your "RF Tuner" consists of some sort of frequency conversion and an LO, you should know that you will always have leakage between the LO input into the mixer and the IF output. Perhaps that is what you are seeing? Does

[Discuss-gnuradio] UHD host resources and system suggestions

2010-09-03 Thread Marc Epard
I'm a puzzled by some UHD behavior and wondering if I need a new host system. I'm not doing any signal processing in the host -- just transmitting from a buffer and/or receiving from a buffer. Later, we'll be wanting to do more processing with two USRP2s both transmitting and receiving at the sa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD host resources and system suggestions

2010-09-03 Thread Marc Epard
Sorry to reply to myself, but we just got the new Ethernet NIC so both USRP2s report WE_TX flow control. Nothing changed. And I have a correction for the types of ethernet cards. The onboard NIC is the Broadcom. Ethernet 2 (and now 3) appear to be Realtek RTL8111/8168B. On Sep 3, 2010, at 3:10

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD host resources and system suggestions

2010-09-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/03/2010 04:52 PM, Marc Epard wrote: > Sorry to reply to myself, but we just got the new Ethernet NIC so both USRP2s > report WE_TX flow control. Nothing changed. > > And I have a correction for the types of ethernet cards. The onboard NIC is > the Broadcom. Ethernet 2 (and now 3) appear to

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

2010-09-03 Thread Jack Ott
Matt Ettus wrote: > > 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 increa

[Discuss-gnuradio] Getting my feet wet on the Tx side of the world

2010-09-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
OK, so I'm wetting my collective feet (all two of them) in the Tx side of the world, with a comms/telecom application, no less. I'm playing with the OP25 project, which is an open-source initiative to produce tools to deal with the so-called "Project 25" digital radio standard that is emerging a

[Discuss-gnuradio] Flowgraph running in "fits and starts"

2010-09-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I've got a flow-graph with a throttled random byte source, which is a test input for a modulator: http://www.sbrac.org/files/fm4_test_modulator.grc http://www.sbrac.org/files/fm4_test_modulator.py The source is throttled to the byte rate required to produce the correct number of symbols/second (

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Flowgraph running in "fits and starts"

2010-09-03 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 10:09:01PM -0400, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > I've got a flow-graph with a throttled random byte source, which is a > test input for a modulator: > > http://www.sbrac.org/files/fm4_test_modulator.grc > > http://www.sbrac.org/files/fm4_test_modulator.py > > The source is thro

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

2010-09-03 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:21:53PM -0700, Jack Ott wrote: > > > Matt Ettus wrote: > > > > 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 > >> wit

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Flowgraph running in "fits and starts"

2010-09-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/03/2010 11:52 PM, Eric Blossom wrote: > The throttle block was written so that the GUI elements could be > tested without an inherently rate limiting source being in the graph. > It is not designed to precisely rate limit anything. For any use > other than that, you're asking for trouble. T

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

2010-09-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/04/2010 12:01 AM, Eric Blossom wrote: > FWIW, independent of GNU Radio, I've found that OpenGL support in > Linux still leaves a lot to be desired in the performance and > reliability departments. (Spoken as someone who's recently tried high > performance cards from both Nvidia and ATI, tryi