Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RX error code in UHD

2018-11-20 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/21/2018 01:01 AM, Jiaxin Liang wrote: Hi Marcus, Thanks for your prompt reply. Regarding the newer version of UHD, are there any recommended versions of the UHD that can drive the X310 stably? Best, Jonathan 3.10.3.0 Should work better. Marcus D. Leech

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RX error code in UHD

2018-11-20 Thread Jiaxin Liang
Hi Marcus, Thanks for your prompt reply. Regarding the newer version of UHD, are there any recommended versions of the UHD that can drive the X310 stably? Best, Jonathan Marcus D. Leech 于2018年11月20日周二 下午7:02写道: > On 11/20/2018 07:51 PM, Jiaxin Liang wrote: > > Dear all, > > I'm working on the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RX error code in UHD

2018-11-20 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/20/2018 07:51 PM, Jiaxin Liang wrote: Dear all, I'm working on the MIMO using the USRP X310 and try to build a transceiver in GNURadio for pinot-to-point communication. However, sometimes when I run the program, the UHD will give me the following WARNING: /USRP Source Block caught rx

[Discuss-gnuradio] RX error code in UHD

2018-11-20 Thread Jiaxin Liang
Dear all, I'm working on the MIMO using the USRP X310 and try to build a transceiver in GNURadio for pinot-to-point communication. However, sometimes when I run the program, the UHD will give me the following WARNING: *USRP Source Block caught rx error code: 2* After we saw this line, the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Packet Decoder Breaking when adding noise

2018-11-20 Thread Matthew J. Brandsema
Ah thanks! Makes perfect sense! For my transmit/receive issue, I found out there is always a random phase offset upon tuning of the LOs. So I set up a matlab script that will correlate the two IQ streams and find this offset. While it is still running, I implement this offset in GNU and I do

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Packet Decoder Breaking when adding noise

2018-11-20 Thread Achilleas Anastasopoulos
Hi Mathew, the random source outputs bytes with numbers 0 or 1 (NOT 2). This single bit information is "packed" into a byte that is the input to the QAM modulator. The QAM modulator internally breaks up these bytes and uses every 4 bits to signal the 16QAM constellation. best, Achilleas On

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Packet Decoder Breaking when adding noise

2018-11-20 Thread Matthew J. Brandsema
Hello, When I switched AC coupling off, it just went blank. So instead, I saved the waveforms to a file and plotted the result in Matlab. See attached for plots. The blue curve are the data before modulating, and the red x's are the data after demodulating. They are lined up! Thanks so

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Packet Decoder Breaking when adding noise

2018-11-20 Thread Achilleas Anastasopoulos
Can you switch off the AC-coupling, and check the scope plot again. Also, maybe useful to have markers instead of just lines. The two streams should be perfectly synchronized (for low noise) and as noise gets higher some of the demodulated bits are in error. This is perfectly OK. Achilleas

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Packet Decoder Breaking when adding noise

2018-11-20 Thread Achilleas Anastasopoulos
There is something really disturbing with your plots: The values have to be either 0 or 1 (recall they are the transmitted/demodulated bits). Yet, you have values in the range 0.6-0.8... Are you sure the plots correspond to the flowgraph you posted? Achilleas

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Packet Decoder Breaking when adding noise

2018-11-20 Thread Achilleas Anastasopoulos
It is important that you have a time scope where you compare the initial bit stream with the output of the demodulator. These are NOT synchronized. Unless you do that you cannot get any meaningful measurement of the BER! You can substitute the Qt blocks with WX blocks. This is easy. Achilleas

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Packet Decoder Breaking when adding noise

2018-11-20 Thread Matthew J. Brandsema
I just got it to go to -18 dB at a delay of 24. I apologize, my previous email was premature. Let me play around a bit more before emailing. From: Matthew J. Brandsema Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 7:36 AM To: anas...@umich.edu; Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Packet Decoder Breaking when adding noise

2018-11-20 Thread Matthew J. Brandsema
Hello, I don't have QT gui so I had to convert to WX blocks (how do I install QT?). I cannot get the BER to change appreciably, no matter what delay I set. The best I can get it to is only about -1 dB. I will keep playing with it. From: Achilleas