Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request.... - "Open-Hardware"

2011-01-10 Thread J.D. Bakker
At 16:27 -0800 09-01-2011, John Gilmore wrote: > -- LART. 250 MIPS under one Watt. Free hardware design files. http://www.lartmaker.nl/ Why is your email signature advertising a website that hasn't been updated since 2003? Perhaps that's a cautionary tale about free-hardware projects - the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 connection problem

2011-01-10 Thread Andrew Rich
tcpdump ? - Original Message - From: mehmet kabasakal To: discuss-gnuradio Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 6:56 PM Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 connection problem Hi everyone, I am using USRP2 on ubuntu 10.10. When i try to run it with grc i got the this message,

[Discuss-gnuradio] Alternative Hardware [was: Re: A Humble Request.... - "Open-Hardware"]

2011-01-10 Thread Patrick Strasser
[Please! Möller, add a one line before and after you text, reading your replies is really a pain.] schrieb Moeller am 2011-01-09 18:07: > On 09.01.2011 05:48, Brian Padalino wrote: >>> Hello Mr. Ettus, >>> Do you have any plan to reduce price for USRP1 or release PCB layout for >>> poor students? >

[Discuss-gnuradio] About clock rate of USRP E100

2011-01-10 Thread Miok Wah
Hello list, We are planning to do some experiments with USRP E100. One advantage of E100 that we are excited with is that "The user can choose (at run time) a convenient clock rate". Our question is: 1) When we change the clock rate changed, is the main clock rate changed, or is it just change

[Discuss-gnuradio] Make check failure in next branch

2011-01-10 Thread Philip Balister
I'm seeing this make check failure on x86 and armv7 in the next branch: qa_set_msg_handler::t0 Assertion qa_set_msg_handler.cc 84 equality assertion failed - Expected: 10 - Actual : 0 Philip _

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Alternative Hardware [was: Re: A Humble Request.... - "Open-Hardware"]

2011-01-10 Thread Martin Braun
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 02:23:47PM +0100, Patrick Strasser wrote: > > He didn't ask for a simulator, he asked for real hardware. > > He did not back his request with some deeper insight why he exactly > needs this thing except for he wants it and has not enough money to buy > it. We do not know wh

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 & DBSRX2

2011-01-10 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi everyone, Does one have to make any changes to the hardware when working with a DBSRX2 and a USRP2, as was the case with the original DBSRX? Are there any python examples that demonstrate how to work with the DBSRX2 on the USRP2? Nick ___ Discuss-gn

[Discuss-gnuradio] Parallel programming

2011-01-10 Thread sirjanselot
Hello All, I've been writing my own signal processing blocks and I noticed that gnuradio only uses one of my cores. I'm not sure if it is using just one core for my blocks or for all processing. Is gnuradio written to take advantage of multicore processing? I have been writing my blocks in ge

[Discuss-gnuradio] Using a TV tuner as a high speed ADC

2011-01-10 Thread ikjtel
FWIW Analog to Digital Converter with 16 bits and 448000 Samples per second based in the Bt878A http://hackaday.com/2005/11/08/using-a-tv-tuner-as-a-high-speed-adc/ ---which takes you to http://www.domenech.org/bt878a-adc/index-e.htm ---Also see btaudio.c module modification to get 896000 Sampl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 & DBSRX2

2011-01-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/10/2011 10:45 AM, Nick Othieno wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Does one have to make any changes to the hardware when working with a > DBSRX2 and a USRP2, as was the case with the original DBSRX? > > Are there any python examples that demonstrate how to work with the > DBSRX2 on the USRP2? > > Nick

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 & DBSRX2

2011-01-10 Thread Nick Foster
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 10:45 -0500, Nick Othieno wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Does one have to make any changes to the hardware when working with a > DBSRX2 and a USRP2, as was the case with the original DBSRX? > > Are there any python examples that demonstrate how to work with the > DBSRX2 on the US

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 & DBSRX2

2011-01-10 Thread Nick Othieno
Wow. Slow down there. I am a newbie. I downloaded and compiled the gnuradio code sometime in late December 2010. However from your response, I am guessing I should first download (checkout), compile and install UHD, then finally compile and install gnuradio. (Just thinking aloud here but a confirm

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 & DBSRX2

2011-01-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/10/2011 11:43 AM, Nick Othieno wrote: Wow. Slow down there. I am a newbie. I downloaded and compiled the gnuradio code sometime in late December 2010. However from your response, I am guessing I should first download (checkout), compile and install UHD, then finally compile and install

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Alternative Hardware [was: Re: A Humble Request.... - "Open-Hardware"]

2011-01-10 Thread Rafael Diniz
Hi there, Just my 2 cents: It's possible to use gnuradio with the soundcard as a receiver / transmitter. Most of the people that listens to DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) in the shortwaves band just buy small tuners that just downconverts the desired frequency to 12kHz for soundcard input, like this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Parallel programming

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Dickens
Assuming you're using a reasonably recent GIT checkout, then your flow-graph should be executing in "thread per block" mode by default -- each block you create in your flow-graph will reside in its own unique thread. You can manually override this setting to be in "single threaded scheduler" mo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Alternative Hardware [was: Re: A Humble Request.... - "Open-Hardware"]

2011-01-10 Thread Rafael Diniz
> Or you just use your normal AM/FM transmitter and downconverts the FI of I was supposed to say receiver instead of transmitter. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 & DBSRX2

2011-01-10 Thread Nick Othieno
Thanks for the info. I will look into that ASAP! On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 01/10/2011 11:43 AM, Nick Othieno wrote: > >> Wow. Slow down there. I am a newbie. >> >> I downloaded and compiled the gnuradio code sometime in late December >> 2010. However from you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 & DBSRX2

2011-01-10 Thread Nick Othieno
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Ben Ahrens wrote: >> >> Dig these two links, in order: >> http://code.ettus.com/redmine/ettus/projects/uhd/wiki >> http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/build.html >> >> Then just install gnuradio as usual. >> >> Ben On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Nick O

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Alternative Hardware

2011-01-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/10/2011 08:23 AM, Patrick Strasser wrote: * Have a look at Digilent [1] Basys and Nexsys boards. You get the same interface chip as the USRP, which should give a good start for firmware development, and a FPGA, switches, buttons, displays, connectors (VGA/PS2 etc.) for about the same or le

[Discuss-gnuradio] Compile Gnuradio 3.3.0

2011-01-10 Thread Howard Wong
Can anyone advice on the following: I am compiling gnuradio 3.3.0 on Ubuntu 10.10 and following instruction on UbuntuInstall of gunradio.org And I've installed the Boost by apt-get, is it necessary to install Boost manually? - For Ubuntu 8.04 and older, download and install Boost 1.35 or later

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Creating a gr_sync_block subclass in python?

2011-01-10 Thread Josh Blum
On 01/08/2011 01:10 PM, Holger Freyther wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to convert symbols (1 float) into two bytes. I thought I want to > use a gr_sync_block for that (1:1 mapping). Now I would like to do this in > python. After looking around, trying things and reading an old thread from > octob

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Compile Gnuradio 3.3.0

2011-01-10 Thread Ben Ahrens
I assume you're looking here: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/gnuradio/UbuntuInstall. If so, you just need to run this: sudo apt-get -y install libfontconfig1-dev libxrender-dev libpulse-dev swig g++ automake libtool python-dev libfftw3-dev \ libcppunit-dev libboost-all-dev libusb-dev fort77 sdc

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] About clock rate of USRP E100

2011-01-10 Thread Philip Balister
On 01/10/2011 09:25 AM, Miok Wah wrote: Hello list, We are planning to do some experiments with USRP E100. One advantage of E100 that we are excited with is that "The user can choose (at run time) a convenient clock rate". Our question is: 1) When we change the clock rate changed, is the main

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Parallel programming

2011-01-10 Thread sirjanselot
How do I know that my flow-graph is executing in thread per block mode? As far as I can tell my only 1 core out of the 8 is being used when I run my flow-graphs. This is what I see when I run the performance monitor (or whatever it is called) in Ubuntu. I am currently using gnuradio 3.3.0 as my

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Compile Gnuradio 3.3.0

2011-01-10 Thread Howard Wong
Thank you very much, Ben On 11/01/2011 03:43, Ben Ahrens wrote: I assume you're looking here: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/gnuradio/UbuntuInstall. If so, you just need to run this: sudo apt-get -y install libfontconfig1-dev libxrender-dev libpulse-dev swig g++ automake libtool python-de

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Parallel programming

2011-01-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/10/2011 03:11 PM, sirjanselot wrote: How do I know that my flow-graph is executing in thread per block mode? As far as I can tell my only 1 core out of the 8 is being used when I run my flow-graphs. This is what I see when I run the performance monitor (or whatever it is called) in Ubuntu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Parallel programming

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Dickens
Without seeing your GRC implementation or Python script & block's implementation code, mostly what I or anyone else can provide is general advice. GNU Radio 3.3.0 uses the thread per block (TBP) scheduler by default; if you're not doing anything else except running the flow-graph (meaning: you

[Discuss-gnuradio] Benchmark scripts

2011-01-10 Thread Thomas H Kim
All, I am testing 2x USRP1 with RFX2400 daughter cards with benchmark_rx and benchmark_tx scripts and have questions. When I set the MCS to dbpsk, error rate I got was close to zero. When I set it to dqpsk, d8psk, error rate is 100%. When I set it to gmsk, certain daughter cards had close to 0

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Benchmark scripts

2011-01-10 Thread Steve Mcmahon
Hello Thomas H Kim: I assume you have the two clocks synchronized. There is a 10 MHz reference clock input on the front of the USRP2. But on the USRP you need to get a soldering iron and modify the hardware a little (I think you need to remove a resistor, or something like that) to add a 10 MHz

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Benchmark scripts

2011-01-10 Thread Nick Foster
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 15:55 -0500, Thomas H Kim wrote: > All, > > I am testing 2x USRP1 with RFX2400 daughter cards with benchmark_rx > and benchmark_tx scripts and have questions. > When I set the MCS to dbpsk, error rate I got was close to zero. > When I set it to dqpsk, d8psk, error rate is

[Discuss-gnuradio] 192KHz sound card experience: WWVB, etc

2011-01-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I finally installed a M-Audio Audiophile 192 sound-card on my F14 system today, further to my efforts to make a WWVB (and DCF77 and any other time station that uses broadly-similar mechanisms) receiver based on little more than a high-rate sound-card, pre-amp, and loop antenna (and of course

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Parallel programming

2011-01-10 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:11 PM, sirjanselot wrote: > > How do I know that my flow-graph is executing in thread per block mode? You can run 'top' while executing your flow graph and then toggle threads on (type capital 'H'). Each thread will be displayed on its own. With a Python-based GNU Radio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Benchmark scripts

2011-01-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Make a simple little FFT sink in GRC and use it on one of the USRPs to determine the received signal offset from the other USRP while it is transmitting. Or receive a signal from a signal generator of known frequency and note the offset for both USRPs. Or transmit a signal from each USRP and recei

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 UHD error: No control response

2011-01-10 Thread Ben Ahrens
I just successfully (I think!) installed UHD and gnuradio, and have installed the firmware provided by Ettus for UHD installs newer than August 2010. I can successfully find my USRP2 using uhd_find_devices, but running uhd_usrp_probe or any python script using UHD drivers results in the error Err

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Parallel programming

2011-01-10 Thread jan acosta
Thanks. Yes, my block has internal data-feedback [using signal processing block output to calculate new FIR filter coefficients, a trait common in adaptive filters]. It runs with 1 FIR Filter pretty quickly with 1 core no problem, but once I start pushing it to 5 and up, my computer can't keep up

[Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM on USRP2

2011-01-10 Thread mrahaim
Hi all, Does anyone know of any updated OFDM benchmark code that is modified to be run on a USRP2? I have seen previous posts of this, however the link to the updated code is no longer available. Thanks, Michael Rahaim Graduate Research Assistant Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to get started using UHD

2011-01-10 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi, I am trying to do the same thing and I realize exactly what his question is, since the results of the commands I am running do not seem to be leading me anywhere. Please read on :-) I have uhd already compiled and installed. Next I want to do the gr-uhd step so I try: git clone http://gnurad

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to get started using UHD

2011-01-10 Thread Josh Blum
> [gnura...@localhost gnuradio]$ git branch --track next origin/next > Branch next set up to track remote branch next from origin. > > and > > [gnura...@localhost gnuradio]$ git checkout next > Switched to branch 'next' > > And that is all. It kind of leaves me doubting whether I have done the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 UHD error: No control response

2011-01-10 Thread Josh Blum
On 01/10/2011 02:06 PM, Ben Ahrens wrote: > I just successfully (I think!) installed UHD and gnuradio, and have > installed the firmware provided by Ettus for UHD installs newer than > August 2010. I can successfully find my USRP2 using uhd_find_devices, > but running uhd_usrp_probe or any pytho

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Benchmark scripts

2011-01-10 Thread John Gilmore
> 2) Have your demodulator provide feedback to the > frequency-setting code to tweak the actual LO frequency (or DDC > frequency, which is usually faster). This is the most general > approach, since it makes your code work well even on a platform that > doesn't have a high-quality external r

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Benchmark scripts

2011-01-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
2) Have your demodulator provide feedback to the frequency-setting code to tweak the actual LO frequency (or DDC frequency, which is usually faster). This is the most general approach, since it makes your code work well even on a platform that doesn't have a high-quality external reference

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Benchmark scripts

2011-01-10 Thread Patrick Yeon
On 1/10/2011 6:58 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: * It seems to me we could minimize this problem by writing a small program that would tune an over-the-air frequency standard (like one of the WWV broadcasts) and compare it to the local oscillator. The resulting frequency offset could then be stored a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-10 Thread Marten Christophe
Hello All, I have something to show the project which was community developed and sold in 450$ even though when it was in prototyping phase and FPGA Atera Cylone used to be so costly that time coz it was not matured that time. USRP has been sold in $450 , how one can claim proprietorship on a pr

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Compile Gnuradio 3.3.0

2011-01-10 Thread Howard Wong
I get the following warning when running make, does it matter? Thanks. /usr/src/gnuradio-3.3.0/usrp/host/include/usrp/usrp_basic.h:91: warning: explicit link request to 'make' could not be resolved /usr/src/gnuradio-3.3.0/usrp/host/include/usrp/usrp_basic.h:91: warning: explicit link request t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-10 Thread Josh Blum
Manoj Kumar, Devendra Purohit, Marten Christophe, and others at technosa...@gmail.com, A humble request for you to get some perspective: Running a business costs money: Parts, supplies, equipment, manufacturing, assembly, testing, employees, export compliance, future developments. Maybe the devel

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Alternative Hardware [was: Re: A Humble Request.... - "Open-Hardware"]

2011-01-10 Thread Moeller
On 10.01.2011 15:35, Martin Braun wrote: > If I may add a note here: I agree with Brian and Patrick, and would even > go further to say that developing fun stuff needs no hardware at all. > So, I hope this didn't sound too snobbish -- but I think that using GNU > Radio, essentially any budget is e

[Discuss-gnuradio] how to calculate the peak values of a signal spectrum by a grc project

2011-01-10 Thread M. H.
usrp_fft.py is one the examples (or utilities) which is prepared in gnuradio source code. this example python utility is in this path: /gr-utils/src/python/usrp_fft.py this python example calculates the fft transform of the signal which is captured from the USRP (as source); and then, plots the sp

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] wbx - usrp_benchmark_usb.py failed at testing 4MB/sec

2011-01-10 Thread Howard Wong
I get the same problem with this one, using ubuntu 10.10, and a DBSRX, WBX the single DBSRX works but it fails with the WBX. So far, I have tried another two computers with ubuntu 9.10 fresh installation. but exactly the same problem. Is anyone having the same issue on WBX? K

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request.... - "Open-Hardware"

2011-01-10 Thread Moeller
On 10.01.2011 02:22, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > The SSRP, as far as I can tell, is dead. Last status update was nearly 4 > years ago. The development stopped apparently. But at least he has a working design for the RX part. > o The ADC board (single-channel, thus cannot handle direct-conversion w

[Discuss-gnuradio] On Starving Students

2011-01-10 Thread Matt Ettus
Dear List, This is the GNU Radio mailing list, and its purpose is to discuss the use and development of GNU Radio. I try to refrain from talking about our business out of respect for the purpose of this list and the community. However, due to the tenor of the recent conversation, I feel t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-10 Thread Moeller
On 11.01.2011 04:24, Marten Christophe wrote: > matured that time. USRP has been sold in $450 , how one can claim > proprietorship on a product which was develop as open sourced > hardware project. many of people have contributed to it on Mr. Ettus The copyright is at Ettus. EDA-files are not d

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 connection problem

2011-01-10 Thread mehmet kabasakal
Hi Adrew, I used wireshark instead of tcpdump and see something on the screen but don't understand what they mean. As i read wireshark shows if we send and receive packet to/from any device.But i see that i can send and receive packets via eth0 by using ifconfig, meh...@mehmet-pc:~$ sudo ifconfig