[Discuss-gnuradio] Timestamping baseband samples

[Benny Alexandar]

Hi All,

In Broadcast receiver where the RF samples are received on AIR and channel 
decoder does the demodulation of digital radio symbols, and extracts the 
compressed audio data. This is then fed to an audio decoder to decode the 
audio. After decoding the uncompressed audio has to be played out.

I would like to implement the jitter buffer, by having time stamps. So my 
question is where to do the timestamping, the timestamp put after audio 
decoding will be jittery because of variable audio content and compression 
effects. So the best place is to put at the RF input when baseband samples are 
buffered using DMA, this then can be corrected for clock recovery and use it 
while sending out audio.


Any suggestions on this approach.


-ben

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[Discuss-gnuradio] Connecting n210 via gigabit ethernet to usb3.0 connector to raspberry pi 3

[Brandon Dunn]

Hi i've read in past discussion board posts i found that a n210 could possibly 
be connected to a raspberry pi 3 via a gigabit ethernet to usb3.0 connector. 
I've recently purchased such a connector and wanted to try it out. When i did, 
the green light on the ethernet port of the n210 lite up however i seem to be 
unable to use uhd_find_devices or uhd_usrp_probe even with the args=usrp2 or 
serial=12345678 or the native ip address ip=192.168.10.2. Does anyone have any 
experience with this that can help me out?Thanks,Brandon___
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Analog Bandwidth of UHD Block

[CEL]

To be a bit more explicit: like the product page says, you **cannot**
use the UBX-160 in an N210. You need an X3x0 if you want to use that!

If you're however interested in smaller bandwidths that the N210 can
sample alias-free, yes, the UBX-40, or the other *BX daughterboards
would be an appropriate choice!
On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 15:48 -0500, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> On 02/09/2018 03:44 PM, Tellrell White wrote:
> > Hello
> > I'm currently using the N210 with the UBX-160 daughterboard and the
> > link below says the analog bandwidth is 160 MHZ. So, I'm assuming
> > this BW isn't changeable so what do I put for the channel BW within
> > the UHD block within GNU Radio?
> > 
> > https://kb.ettus.com/About_USRP_Bandwidths_and_Sampling_Rates
> > 
> > Tellrell White 
> > 
> > 
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>  The analog bandwidth on that card is fixed, so the bandwidth setting
> will have no effect.  The UBX-40 would have been a better choice,
> given the
>   100Msps ADC rate on the N210.
> 
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-radar and FMCW radar imlementation for measuring range with high resolution

[Tilen Matkovič]

Hi,

thanks for quick reply!

I was aware of range resolution equation, apparently I didn't specify
project enough and wasn't really paying attention while reading some
articles :/.

Goal of my project would be to measure breathing/heartbeat rate of a human
using FMCW radar in GNU radio. I just realized that I do not need to
measure the distance of some object (human chest in my case), but only the
phase variation, which would be much more precise for breathing monitoring
than technique used in gr-radar, with some other limitations.

I believe that beam antennas would help me, so I will try to use them also,
once I understand theory and get it working in implementation.

Article and webpage that helped me to understand such monitoring:
Smart Homes that Monitor Breathing and Heart Rate -
http://witrack.csail.mit.edu/vitalradio/content/vitalradio-paper.pdf
http://hforsten.com/heartbeat-detection-with-radar.html

If such implementation for monitoring phase variation already exists in GNU
radio, please point me in right direction :)

Regards,
Tilen

2018-02-08 19:02 GMT+01:00 Sebastian Müller :

> Hi Tilen,
>
> Am 8. Februar 2018 um 16:31:37, Tilen Matkovič (matkovic.ti...@gmail.com)
> schrieb:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am working on a project where I am using radars to measure
> distance/range from one point to another (with relatively high range
> resolution - range of centimeters or even millimeters).
>
> Generally I’m not sure if you will achieve this with the B210 hardware you
> mention later. Keep in mind the range resolution equation for radar:
>
> dr >= c/(2*B)
>
> For a range resolution of 1 cm you’ll need a signal bandwidth of 15 GHz
> [1], while the URSP has a maximum frequency coverage of up to 6 GHz, which
> means your center frequency plus half the bandwidth must be less equal 6
> GHz. Common radars, for instance in automotive applications, work on a
> center frequency near 100 GHz, allowing much higher bandwidths!
>
> I found the gr-radar (https://github.com/kit-cel/gr-radar/) module for
> GNU radio, which already has some implemented radar techniques, the most
> promising for me would be the FMCW radar. But the github repository was not
> updated in years, so I am asking you guys if some of you may know some
> alternatives for GNU radio (googling radar gnuradio was not so successful)
> or maybe anyone has already worked with gr-radar.
>
>
> I’m not aware of any other projects, but I’ve used gr-radar myself. It
> definitely works in the real world, which you can see on Stefan’s Youtube
> channel [2].
>
> Now what exactly is my problem - I managed to get the gr-radar - FMCW
> working on one USRP B210 (with TX/RX and RX2 using omnidirectional
> antennas). I was playing around with modifying some of the variables but I
> am still not getting useful range data (mostly it is constant, even if
> moving both of the antennas for a few meters or putting some obstacles in
> between). Modifying the samp_rate or sweep_freq, and others (samp_cw,
> samp_up, samp_down) has also not given me useful results.
>
> The original setup for gr-radar consisted of two USRP N210, connected with
> a MIMO cable. It never ran on a B10, though there were some attempts, that
> seem to never have been further pursued [3].
>
> Also, since you’re using omnidirectional antennas with FMCW, you’ll detect
> a lot of static objects in *all* azimuth angles, while gr-radar was
> designed for one target only IIRC. So assuming it theoretically could work
> on a B210 (please let us know!!), I would propose to use beam antennas and
> try to use the dual CW waveform, which only detects moving objects.
> Let us know about any progress :)
>
>
> Perhaps I am doing something wrong and not understanding the theoretical
> principles about radars/signal processing or maybe the FMCW flowgraph is
> not implemented correctly? I also have to mention here that author (on
> github) only tested the FMCW flowgraph in the simulation (which works ok),
> but not on the hardware.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards,
> Tilen
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> [1] http://www.radartutorial.eu/01.basics/Range%20Resolution.en.html
> [2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv7cqqFkkiRFJIGkNEyMu3g
> [3] https://github.com/kit-cel/gr-radar/issues/19
>
> Regards,
>
> Sebastian Müller
> gse...@gmail.com
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Analog Bandwidth of UHD Block

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 02/09/2018 03:44 PM, Tellrell White wrote:

Hello
I'm currently using the N210 with the UBX-160 daughterboard and the 
link below says the analog bandwidth is 160 MHZ. So, I'm assuming this 
BW isn't changeable so what do I put for the channel BW within the UHD 
block within GNU Radio?


https://kb.ettus.com/About_USRP_Bandwidths_and_Sampling_Rates

Tellrell White


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The analog bandwidth on that card is fixed, so the bandwidth setting 
will have no effect.  The UBX-40 would have been a better choice, given the

  100Msps ADC rate on the N210.


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[Discuss-gnuradio] Analog Bandwidth of UHD Block

[Tellrell White]

Hello
I'm currently using the N210 with the UBX-160 daughterboard and the link
below says the analog bandwidth is 160 MHZ. So, I'm assuming this BW isn't
changeable so what do I put for the channel BW within the UHD block within
GNU Radio?

https://kb.ettus.com/About_USRP_Bandwidths_and_Sampling_Rates

Tellrell White
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