Rob,

we pushed a fix for the TX spectrum issue to UHD-3.13 and master.

-- M

On 08/15/2018 05:24 PM, Michael West wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> We have reproduced the TX corruption issue and we are troubleshooting. 
> In the meantime, you can try using the head of UHD-3.13 with the
> force_reinit=1 as Martin suggested.  If that doesn't do the trick, we
> did find a combination that seems to work:  UHD and FPGA image from the
> head of UHD-3.13 and MPM from the head of UHD-3.12.  Let us know if
> either of these helps you work around the issue.  We will let you know
> as soon as we have a fix.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Martin Braun via USRP-users
> <usrp-users@lists.ettus.com <mailto:usrp-users@lists.ettus.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 08/09/2018 02:31 PM, Rob Kossler via USRP-users wrote:
>     > When I first started using MPM 3.13, I was pleased to see the fast
>     > initialization times compared to previous versions.  Now, after
>     spending
>     > the better part of a couple of days troubleshooting issues, I am much
>     > less thrilled with this version. 
>     >
>     > The two attachments show the resulting spectrum from an external
>     Tx->Rx
>     > RF loopback experiment.  The only difference between the two
>     figures is
>     > the change of MPM from 3.12 to 3.13. The baseband signal consists
>     of 100
>     > equal amplitude tones equally spaced over 80% of the sampling freq
>     > (31.25e6, in my case).  Note that the 3.12 results are as
>     expected.  The
>     > 3.13 results show energy over the full bandwidth and significant
>     > variations in tone magnitude.  I confirmed with a spectrum
>     analyzer that
>     > the trouble was on the Tx side rather than Rx.
>     >
>     > I also experienced issues with streaming timeouts occurring on the 2nd
>     > time I issued a streaming command.  However, with all of the
>     variations
>     > I have been going through while troubleshooting this issue, I
>     cannot say
>     > for certain that this secondary issue is related to the MPM version. 
>     > Presently, I am not seeing these streaming timeouts and I'm not
>     sure of
>     > the exact conditions that caused them.
> 
>     Rob,
> 
>     as Michael West already mentioned, we're checking out these issues and
>     trying to reproduce. In the meantime, you could try running with
>     force_reinit=1 as a device arg to force clean-slate initialization (the
>     way we improved the init time was by skipping certain steps). It'll make
>     your init times slow again, of course.
> 
>     -- M
> 
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