Re: [USRP-users] USRP sample rate and bandwidth

2021-01-13 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Koyel: Yes, BUT please be warned that most USRP daughterboards have fixed filter bandwidth, and they may simply ignore the bandwidth parameter (without notifications). Regards, Kyeong Su Shin 보낸 사람: Koyel Das (Vehere) via USRP-users 대신 USRP-users 보낸 날짜:

Re: [USRP-users] spectrum availability measurement with usrp

2020-10-20 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
; a écrit : On 10/20/2020 01:05 AM, Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users wrote: Hello Trang: It depends on your applications. USRPs CAN be used to scan and map the wireless spectrum, but you will have to determine whether the spectrum is empty or not, and it is not a trivial question. For an example, signal

Re: [USRP-users] spectrum availability measurement with usrp

2020-10-19 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Trang: It depends on your applications. USRPs CAN be used to scan and map the wireless spectrum, but you will have to determine whether the spectrum is empty or not, and it is not a trivial question. For an example, signals from satellites and spacecrafts are often below the thermal noise

Re: [USRP-users] Modulation technique for sliding correlator channel sounder

2020-05-27 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Akinyele: You do not need to use any specific modulation techniques to implement a channel sounder. This is because the receiver already knows the transmitted I-Q sequence, and correlation is taken directly on the incoming I-Q sequences to measure the channel. Of course, you should still

Re: [USRP-users] 10.23Msps Sample Rate

2020-04-28 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Damon, That does not mean that you have to use a physical 10.23 MHz clock. A good digital resampler should allow the device to transmit essentially the same signal. Implementing a good resampler could be challenging (a rational-resampler may take too much taps to implement), but there are

Re: [USRP-users] 10.23Msps Sample Rate

2020-04-27 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Guowang: First, if you are woking on GNSS (it's just my guess, but that's where 10.23 MHz usually comes from), you usually DON'T need to use 10.23 MS/s (see GNSS-SDR and gps-sdr-sim source codes). So, you may want to think about that before proceeding further. If you absolutely want to u

Re: [USRP-users] GNU Radio UHD Blocks Resolution

2020-02-20 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
To whom it may concern: A few points to add: -12-bit ADCs do not necessarily mean that you will get 12-bit resolutions from your received data. Resamplers may increase the effective bit depth. Say you have the smallest step of 1 and have [1 2] as samples; You downsample that to [1.5] and now t

Re: [USRP-users] Noise vs Sample rate

2019-12-11 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Thibaud, Think this in the frequency domain. A typical decimator 1. applies a low-pass filter to the incoming samples, and then 2. downsamples the data by extracting every n th sample. The low-pass filter does not only filter out non-desired signals, but also filters out noise. So, you m

Re: [USRP-users] Overrun on USB vs Ethernet

2019-08-30 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Remco: There's probably a better way to do the job, but here's something that I can suggest: What you need to do to find out the maximum sustainable rate of your program is feeding in dummy data to it. I don't know how do this without replacing the USRP input stream to a stream of sample

Re: [USRP-users] Overrun on USB vs Ethernet

2019-08-28 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Remco: If benchmark_rate runs fine at the target rx rate, the processing speed of the CPU is probably the main bottleneck. If you want to test it further, you can check the "maximum throughput" of your software (maximum rx rate that your software can keep up). If your program is in GNU R

Re: [USRP-users] SBX-120 transmit power

2018-11-14 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello, I wouldn't expect the full 20 dBm output power from the board, even when the board is at the 31.5 dB TX gain setting. Actual power level will depend on several other factors, including the center frequency that the board is tuned at. The power would be lower than 20 dBm in most scenario

Re: [USRP-users] Max instantaneous bandwidth on USRP2

2018-08-24 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Diniz, 40 MHz (analog filter bandwidth of the daughterboard). A USRP 2 can continuously stream at 50 MS/s (complex baseband samples) using the 8-bit wire mode. That means that the maximum bandwidth that the device can cover is limited by the analog filter bandwidth of the daughterboard,

Re: [USRP-users] ALSA audio problem

2018-07-26 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Munir, You are not supposed to use 'throttle' blocks if the rate of the flowgraph is already limited by attached hardware (ex: USRP src /sink, audio source / sink). As Derek mentioned, this is probably due to the two-clock problem of the system. Try inserting a few seconds of delays to

Re: [USRP-users] [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP DDC and GNURadio Bandwidth Problem

2018-05-17 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Ali, That "bandwidth" parameter of the UHD Source/Sink block is used to adjust the 'analog bandwidth' of the 'daughterboard'. Most of the daughterboards have a fixed analog bandwidth, so that parameter will be simply ignored in most cases ('uhd_usrp_probe' will give the detailed info abou

Re: [USRP-users] USRP Underruns "UUUUU"

2018-05-06 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Yeo Jin: * If your maximum sampling rate on Windows is 4MS/s and if you are using the MIMO capability of the device, you may want to double-check the USB2/USB3 issue that Alfredo Gardel mentioned (because (8/channels)MS/s is the approximately the maximum rate that you can achieve wit

Re: [USRP-users] USRP Underruns "UUUUU"

2018-05-04 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Yeo Jin, First, find the maximum effective sampling rate that you can achieve with your computer. Connect a constant source to a USRP sink (for USRP sink underruns), or connect a USRP source to a null sink (for USRP source overruns) and run the flow graph. Try different sampling rates to

Re: [USRP-users] (no subject)

2018-04-28 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Kazem: Just follow the instructions in the error message: "/usr/local/lib/uhd/utils/uhd_images_downloader.py" "/usr/local/bin/uhd_image_loader" \ --args="type=usrp2,addr=192.168.10.3" You may have to add "sudo" in front of the commands. Also, you may have to install python-reques

Re: [USRP-users] start read data from source file not from the beginning

2018-04-24 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Ishai, Although it is a bit hacky way, you can probably use a "skip head" block to drop a first few samples of the data (drop first 1024 bytes of information using it). I guess this topic better fits "discuss-gnuradio" mailing list - please consider using that. Regards, Kyeong Su S

Re: [USRP-users] IQ transmission using grc

2018-03-24 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Ben: USRP N210 samples at 100MS/s (with an additional 4x interpolation in case of Tx - making it 400MS/s). The maximum effective sampling rate, however, is bottlenecked by the connection between the USRP and the PC. The 1Gbps Ethernet connection can keep up with a 25MS/s 16bit I-Q data s

Re: [USRP-users] Configurating B210 transmitter into two different central frequencies.

2018-03-15 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
nyway, this is a hardware limitation and the only way to fix the problem is to add more hardware (or re-design the system, so as you wouldn't have to transmit on two distinct frequencies). Regards, Kyeong Su Shin ____ 보낸 사람: Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users 대신

Re: [USRP-users] Configurating B210 transmitter into two different central frequencies.

2018-03-15 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello José, I am pretty sure that AD9361 has only one PLL for the both TX chains. So, there is a hardware-level limitation for this. If the difference between the highest (RF) frequency and the lowest (RF) frequency occupied by the two waveforms (combined) is smaller than the effective sampl

Re: [USRP-users] UBX vs SBX

2018-03-14 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Hojoon Yang, Both SBX and UBX will work fine (*Assuming X3x0 series only, no N2x0 or older boards). You can align the phase of the UBX and SBX boards by using the timed commands ( https://kb.ettus.com/Synchronization_and_MIMO_Capability_with_USRP_Devices ) , but you will have to correct

[USRP-users] Fwd: i want to ask something

2018-02-09 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Kim: Since you mention a MIMO cable, I assume that you are using USRP 2 / N200 / N210. Do the following: 1. Assign unique IP addresses to one of the USRPs (if you haven't yet). See: https://files.ettus.com/manual/page_usrp2.html#usrp2_network_changeip 2. Set "Device Address" or "Device Arg

Re: [USRP-users] MIMO Cable for USRPN200 and USRP2

2018-02-07 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Wahhab, In my experience, that should work. However, Ettus Research dropped the USRP 2 support a long ago, so you can only expect community support and no official feedbacks (=basically at your own risk). Regards, Kyeong Su Shin On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 10:49 AM, Wahhab Albazrqaoe via USRP-u

Re: [USRP-users] USRP to Wireshark

2018-02-07 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello, A good example of this is gr-ieee-802-11 ( https://github.com/bastibl/gr-ieee802-11 ) . That is for IEEE802.11 a/g/p, which you probably aren't looking at (as you are usually better off with COTS WiFi transceivers for sniffing purposes). Yet, it is something that you can look at if you are

Re: [USRP-users] Enable aliasing using USRP

2017-12-28 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Wahhab, If I recall correctly, you can *not* change the bandwidth of SBX (always 40MHz), and the sampling rate of the USRP2 (always 100MS/s). What you are actually setting by setting --rate 2e6 is the decimation ratio. The signals will be always sampled at 100MS/s, and then decimated by the

Re: [USRP-users] Gnu radio IQ streaming

2017-12-11 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Benny Alexander: What is meant is that you must multiply your samples by a constant number, 1.0/(2**15-1), to scale it from 0 - 32767 to 0 - 1 (range accepted by the USRP). Regards, Kyeong Su Shin On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Benny Alexandar via USRP-users < usrp-users@lists.ettus.com>

Re: [USRP-users] using uhd_fft with usrp N210

2017-11-28 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Dear Sung Bok,Lee: Forgot to mention - so, in short, all it can do is 'digitally' shifting signals if you use BasicRX/BasicTX daughterboards. The analog frontends do not filter any signals (although the daughterboards themselves act as poor low pass filters with bandwidth of 250MHz), nor mix them

Re: [USRP-users] using uhd_fft with usrp N210

2017-11-28 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Dear Sung Bok,Lee: You are using BasicRX/BasicTX daughterboards. These daughterboards do not have any mixers, so they cannot 'tune' to any frequencies and you have to supply your own RF frontends to get reasonable performances. All these daughterboards do for you is just buffering the ADC/DAC and

Re: [USRP-users] Improving Sensitivity of the Radio.

2017-11-14 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
gt; > > > Regards, > Kyeong Su Shin > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users < > usrp-users@lists.ettus.com> wrote: > >> On 11/14/2017 10:00 PM, Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users wrote: >> >> Hello Everyone: >> >> We ar

Re: [USRP-users] Improving Sensitivity of the Radio.

2017-11-14 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
tioned was the noise figure that is observed by us, after such adjustments). We will definitely try adding filters. Regards, Kyeong Su Shin On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users < usrp-users@lists.ettus.com> wrote: > On 11/14/2017 10:00 PM, Kyeong Su Shin v

[USRP-users] Improving Sensitivity of the Radio.

2017-11-14 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Everyone: We are using USRPs for spectrum sensing (on pretty much any frequencies). Before asking my faculty to order a TwinRX daughterboard, however, I would like to see if there are any ways to improve the sensitivity of the hardware that we currently own (UBX/SBX/CBX/WBX). Our USRP + UBX

Re: [USRP-users] TX power levels. Long term exposure.

2017-11-07 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
It will act as a RF shield. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_shielding ) Not a recommended way to protect yourself from strong EM waves, but it does make a good joke. Regards, Kyeong Su Shin On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Kevin Hung via USRP-users < usrp-users@lists.ettus.co

Re: [USRP-users] FLEX900 + USRP1 Rev2

2017-10-23 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Angilberto Muniz: An alternative to this is to modify the USRP 1 motherboard (instead of the dauthgerboard). There used to be a GNURadio wiki page about this ("USRPSerialBelow500"), but it is apparently gone. You can still find some old e-mail archives and Chinese articles (with images) rega

[USRP-users] Is it safe to plug in UBX-160 on USRP N200/N210 (for intentional aliasing)?

2017-09-05 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello all, Would it be safe to plug in a UBX-160 daughterboard to a USRP N200 or N210, if I "want" aliasing? I want to intentionally cause aliasing to the collected data for some experiments, and I think this is a valid option, but I am worried if there are any UBX-160 features that may cause pro

Re: [USRP-users] Distance estimation and phase continuity of LO

2017-08-31 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello All, Just want to note that NI 2921s use XCVR2450, which is half-duplex (cannot rx and tx concurrently). B210s will work better, as they are full-duplex 2x2 MIMO. Regards, Kyeong Su Shin On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 8:44 PM, Michael Don via USRP-users < usrp-users@lists.ettus.com> wrote: > > U

Re: [USRP-users] How to connect single USRP N200 with two PCs?

2017-08-25 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
To whom it may concern: First, I am not an expert of USRP, so I could be wrong. A few thoughts: 1. A USRP N200 does have two DACs / ADCs, but they are typically used for the I-Q sampling, so whether you can get two RX channels from a USRP N200 depends on the installed daughterboards. (Well, you

Re: [USRP-users] Making Antenna Array using SDR

2017-07-14 Thread Kyeong Su Shin via USRP-users
Hello Ozair Iqbal, You can't (without using more SDR transceivers or making major modifications to the hardware). USRP-2901 (USRP B210) is only capable of 2x2 MIMO. You can switch between TX/RX and RX2 ports, but you cannot receive from all antenna ports concurrently (USRPs with switchable daughte