[Discuss-gnuradio] OpenMP accelerator used with GNU radio

2012-05-02 Thread Jeff Brower
All- I'm looking for advanced developers who are interested in taking our OpenMP accelerator and creating a demo GNU radio application. The accelerator is a 2.5 Teraflop (32-core) PCIe card with a 1 GBe port and is programmed via OpenMP. The objectives are twofold: -fast response / low

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio is crap and GSoc

2012-02-15 Thread Jeff Brower
Martin- On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:11:19AM -0500, Clark Pope wrote: Without a monetization strategy I don't see how the gnu radio project gets much past its current state. The problem is the functionality of a prototyper or student is implemented in about 20% of the effort for a full

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio is crap and GSoc

2012-02-15 Thread Jeff Brower
Ed- On 2/15/12 11:31 AM, Jeff Brower wrote: GNU Radio is owned by National Instruments . ! You are confusing GnuRadio with Ettus Research. GnuRadio is an open source SDR framework. Ettus is the manufacturer of the USRP series of hardware and the UHD

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] To implement WiMAX with GnuRadio or not?

2011-05-27 Thread Jeff Brower
Marcus- Alexander is asking excellent questions and I'm surprised at the tepid response -- he's got like 4 replies so far? He's the prototype GNU radio user who needs to maintain his group's IP, he should be receiving how to's, not INALs. -Jeff Actually, IANAL is a perfectly-valid response.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] To implement WiMAX with GnuRadio or not?

2011-05-27 Thread Jeff Brower
Colby- How do the companies write closed-source drivers for the Linux Kernel without running into GPL2 issues? I can only recall that there is a user-land and a kernel-land driver, where the kernel-land is the only part that is open source. Is this correct? Perhaps that method could work

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] To implement WiMAX with GnuRadio or not?

2011-05-25 Thread Jeff Brower
Michael- Hi Alexander - I think Martin Tom covered that GNU Radio is quite capable of being programmed for the basic receiver processing. You might need to play around a bit with your DSP blocks, but otherwise I think GNU Radio's data processing is up to the task. On May 23, 2011, at

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-10 Thread Jeff Brower
Martin- : : To a non GPL-philic, non-nerd, why choose GNU Radio? There is no reason: - Matlab is generally free of charge for universities - Matlab is used by the industry - Matlab is better documented and has a wider user base - Simulink has more blocks already incorporated -

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-10 Thread Jeff Brower
Martin- On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 09:07:38AM -0500, Jeff Brower wrote: Martin- To a non GPL-philic, non-nerd, why choose GNU Radio? There is no reason: - Matlab is generally free of charge for universities - Matlab is used by the industry - Matlab is better documented and has a wider

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-09 Thread Jeff Brower
Alexander- Well said. I would add an additional comment about Linux as a model for GNU Radio. Linux exists at least in part because of widespread developer anger with Microsoft in the 1990s. Guys like Ballmer simply couldn't think straight and failed to respect developers' time and effort.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-09 Thread Jeff Brower
Gregory- On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Andrew Lentvorski bs...@allcaps.org wrote: No embedded engineer who values his job will touch a GPL piece of code with a 10 foot pole.  Period. and these are folks who will be out-competed in the marketplace by competitors who are more agile and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Agile Solutions is Pleased to announce USRPSTAR. Yet another addition to GNURADIO

2011-04-20 Thread Jeff Brower
On 04/19/2011 01:10 PM, i...@agile-sdr-solutions.com wrote: Dear Matt, We honestly went through every material in search on Google but we couldn't locate a single article published successful testing for STBC/SFBC. For whatever reason, we would like to know, if you can confirm on this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TI vs Freescale DSP for open-source development

2011-01-28 Thread Jeff Brower
Alexander- okay here are my 2 cents 2- TI actually offers all the tools you need to develop for their DSP for free, I can vouch for the C64x+ DSP since that's what I have experience using. You can download and look at the supported DSP for the free download from

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TI vs Freescale DSP for open-source development

2011-01-28 Thread Jeff Brower
Don- Hi Jeff: interesting reply. I remember when TI and MOT did exactly the opposite. TI had the 9900 processor series that was much better than anything on the market, and essentially blew it off. MOT had the 6800/68000 series, that became moderately successful. The most crippled processor

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] re: Low cost hardware option

2011-01-12 Thread Jeff Brower
Jamie- Hi Brian, That sounds like a pretty good system.  I should say right off the bat that if I am involved to make this I would want to add a clause in the open source hardware license to not allow the hardware to be used for military applications. I think it is important to state this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] On Starving Students

2011-01-11 Thread Jeff Brower
To the students: Suggest that you give Matt your Professor/Advisor contact info, and also get your Prof to send a note to Matt on your behalf. Bringing your Prof into the dialog is a good idea for several reasons. For example, there might be an opportunity to set up an instructional lab or

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Details on Ettus E100?

2010-12-14 Thread Jeff Brower
Elvis- On Dec 14, 2010, at 11:14 PM, Matt Ettus wrote: Since the OMAP has a GPU incorporated does that mean that we could use it for processing? Is there a CUDA equivalent for this type of GPU? Doug has it pretty correct here. This is one of those areas I would call theoretically

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio land speed record?

2010-07-30 Thread Jeff Brower
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:19:35 -0700 From: dhalp...@cs.washington.edu To: m...@ettus.com CC: cepop...@hotmail.com; discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio land speed record? On 07/30/2010 09:33 AM, Clark Pope wrote:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Can GNU Radio run on TI DSP environment?

2010-07-09 Thread Jeff Brower
Hanks- I am new to GNU Radio. Currently I am considering to implement basic software radio and signal processing on TI DSP environment, such as TI TMS320C674x and C647x DSPs and the evaluation boards. I know GNU radio are usually running on PC environments for Linux or Window OS, but can

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2010-07-09 Thread Jeff Brower
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] find_usrps No USRP2 found.

2010-04-29 Thread Jeff Brower
Steve- Further to my problem trying to discover the USRP2. From a cold start (the USRP2 was left without power since my last posts) I configure the GigE port using ethtool and enable TX pause frames (this seems to be necessary magic on my PC). I then run this at the command line: while

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RANT ALERT: WTF Is wrong with you people?

2010-04-25 Thread Jeff Brower
Marcus- Your sentiments are understandable. I know the feeling. But please allow me to give an a different perspective. I've posted for years (since 1999) 1000s of times on DSP, audio, speech, MATLAB and FPGA groups -- on voluntary basis, because I want to. I can't count the number of times

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] IQ imbalance...

2010-04-16 Thread Jeff Brower
Per- I also have a xcvr2450 that won't lock sometimes. This is at 2.4GHz. Also an issue about IQ imbalance: I am measuring IQ imbalance. The values are generally quite good. However, one thing I don't understand is that the mirror frequency doesn't turn up on exactely -f but a few Hertz

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: About EEPROM and FX2(68013a) USB interfacein USRP

2010-04-13 Thread Jeff Brower
Catalin- On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:00 PM, discuss-gnuradio-requ...@gnu.org wrote: Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:02:43 +0800 From: Liang Xin Áºê¿ liangxin...@gmail.com Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] About EEPROM and FX2(68013a) USB interface        in      USRP To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-04-09 Thread Jeff Brower
Matt- My understanding is that it takes 3 BUFGs and one DCM for tri-mode (maybe one more of each for RGMII support but I don't see that) and, between this and other USRP2 needs, you ran into the limit of 8. Is that accurate? Or would 10/100/1000 support would take more than 3... I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-04-08 Thread Jeff Brower
Matt- About Vikram's 10/100 mode question, we were wondering if it's a design flaw; i.e. something wrong from the start in the original opencores.org source, or if it's fixable but hasn't been a high priority item given USRP2's high data rate requirements. But then I found this post:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MAC layer development and USRP2

2010-04-07 Thread Jeff Brower
George- Did you see my previous post about the accelerator PCIe card? To some extent the Microsoft approach is what we're doing. But we want to stay compatible with USRP2 hardware so we connect GbE to the accelerator card; non MAC-related dataflow is PCIe from there. Buffering required to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MAC layer development and USRP2

2010-04-07 Thread Jeff Brower
George- What I got from your paper is that the matched filter approach for fast packet detection would not work in an OFDM setting. What about fast ACK generation? Would it require an IFFT implementation on the USRP? Would it help much? It's a good question, and something I haven't

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MAC layer development and USRP2

2010-04-07 Thread Jeff Brower
Marcus- On 04/06/2010 09:44 PM, John Gilmore wrote: Which part of the Linux issue... sustained throughput or latency? I wouldn't be surprised to find that latency hasn't improved substantially because it's not a priority for server software. Even VoIP applications are not concerned

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MAC layer development and USRP2

2010-04-07 Thread Jeff Brower
John- Which part of the Linux issue... sustained throughput or latency? I wouldn't be surprised to find that latency hasn't improved substantially because it's not a priority for server software. Even VoIP applications are not concerned about a 1 msec improvement... whereas that makes

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-04-07 Thread Jeff Brower
Matt- About Vikram's 10/100 mode question, we were wondering if it's a design flaw; i.e. something wrong from the start in the original opencores.org source, or if it's fixable but hasn't been a high priority item given USRP2's high data rate requirements. But then I found this post:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MAC layer development and USRP2

2010-04-06 Thread Jeff Brower
George- Thanks for the reply George. I'm still looking for a little more information on this topic. - What is PMT http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/1/TypePMT - Why was m-block removed http://osdir.com/ml/discuss-gnuradio-gnu/2010-01/msg00066.html - Has anyone measured latency with the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MAC layer development and USRP2

2010-04-06 Thread Jeff Brower
Veljko- I tried with a stop-and-wait ARQ and two USRP2s with XCVR2450s, but the delay was too long and inconsistent. I can't remember the exact figures, but definitely up to milliseconds. Do you mean two USRP2s back-to-back? Or both connected to motherboard ports? -Jeff 2010/4/6 George

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MAC layer development and USRP2

2010-04-06 Thread Jeff Brower
George- Jeff, I definitely agree that buffering also adds significant latency. How much of the MAC can you get around? I just think that, there are a number of people who want the flexibility of the SDR, but want to do MAC research, and current common SDR architecture is just not good

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MAC layer development and USRP2

2010-04-06 Thread Jeff Brower
Philip- On 04/06/2010 04:19 PM, George Nychis wrote: Jeff, I definitely agree that buffering also adds significant latency. How much of the MAC can you get around? I just think that, there are a number of people who want the flexibility of the SDR, but want to do MAC research, and current

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MAC layer development and USRP2

2010-04-06 Thread Jeff Brower
Charles- I would tend to blame Linux and buffering more than GbE itself (MAC + PHY).   Here is an interesting doc where the researchers were asking similar questions:  http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/rich/atlas/docs/atlas_net_note_draft5.pdf I'm not sure yet how much buffering is done in the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Brower
Firas- From: Jeff Brower jbro...@signalogic.com Firas- A couple of brief comments: 1) Sounds like this was a high-speed data acq card, optimized for streaming, not an accelerator card. How big was the FIFO? The FIFO was 64MByte. That's huge... and you mentioned a 64k block transfer

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Considerations for new hardware in gnuradio

2010-03-30 Thread Jeff Brower
Per- If we had an fpga image that allowed us to store samples on the USRP2 that would be very benefitial, at least for me. Then one could test algorithms with 100MHz sample-rate. Yes, it would not be possible to use the channel continously. Receiving 1ms of samples would take 4ms to upload.

[Discuss-gnuradio] interfacing a DSP array card to USRP2

2010-03-30 Thread Jeff Brower
Matt- We're working on a project at Signalogic to interface one of our DSP array PCIe cards to the USRP2. This would provide a way for one or more TI DSPs to insert into the data flow and run C/C++ code for low-latency and/or other high performance applications. The idea is that we would

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Under Flow

2010-03-17 Thread Jeff Brower
slow... what is the reason? -Jeff On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Jeff Brower jbro...@signalogic.com wrote: Philip- On 03/16/2010 06:51 AM, halidziya yerebakan wrote: Hi all; ? ? ? ? Thanks to Mr. Balister I run USRP on BeagleBoard ( http

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Under Flow

2010-03-16 Thread Jeff Brower
Philip- On 03/16/2010 06:51 AM, halidziya yerebakan wrote: Hi all; Thanks to Mr. Balister I run USRP on BeagleBoard ( http://www.opensdr.com/node/17) . But it doesn't give any sound when I try to listen FM radio. I think there is some mismatch in sampling rates or data format. I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] digitizing a digital data stream with USRP2

2010-02-17 Thread Jeff Brower
John- I have a USRP2 and I'm interested in doing an experiment where I'd like to simply use the USRP2 as an A/D and D/A device, essentially disabling the RF tuning portions. The signal I'm trying to digitize is a stream of digital TTL pulses. I assume that the best way to interface to this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Building USRP2 FPGA on ISE 11.4

2010-02-15 Thread Jeff Brower
Tracey- I was able to place and route the design on ISE 11.4 using a 'high' effort and ensuring that the speed grade selected is -5 (that really made a difference of about 20MHz in the speed of the final design). However, when it comes time to generate the bitstream, it complains about the -g

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] article: No-knob radio: the future ofWarfighter communications?

2010-02-12 Thread Jeff Brower
Ettus Guys- http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/01/27/33577-no-knob-radio-the-future-of-warfighter-communications/ No-knob radio: the future of Warfighter communications? After as week, this brings up a question: is there supposed to be an official PR or other announcement about the acquisition

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] article: No-knob radio: the future ofWarfightercommunications?

2010-02-12 Thread Jeff Brower
On 02/12/2010 04:43 PM, Jeff Brower wrote: Ettus Guys- http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/01/27/33577-no-knob-radio-the-future-of-warfighter-communications/ No-knob radio: the future of Warfighter communications? After as week, this brings up a question: is there supposed to be an official PR

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Jeff Brower
NI has a reputation for fiercely protecting their patents. They sued The MathWorks over Simulink in a lengthy and hard-fought case and won in a jury trial in 2003. This is why, to this day, you can't change source block parameters via dialog box or other visual or control panel means while

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Jeff Brower
Don- I'm not going to get all awestruck about the guy. No one is worthy of that. He may be your friend, but this is just business. Nothing personal. After seeing 100s of engineers and projects and companies go by in my 30 years of engineering, I can say you probably ought to be awestruck

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Jeff Brower
Don- But what happens when your project won't fit into the square form factor? What if you have this great idea but can only fit into the form factor of say a cell phone... then what? I'm not the only one with the same idea... Look at the beagleboard guys doing their USRP work. The

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Unable to tune Tx or Rx with XCVR2450 on USRP2

2010-02-03 Thread Jeff Brower
Ian- Perhaps? We only have two USRP2s and 2 XCVR2450s. However, if it was the SD card, I would think both XCVR2450s should have the problem. Actually, even the better of the two occasionally fails, so I can't be sure. If you rule out the SD card, then is there a way you and Manav can compare

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ISE11.1 error using Linux CLI..Update HELP

2010-01-19 Thread Jeff Brower
Matt- We are currently working on a fix for the problems with compiling under the ISE 11. We believe it to be a problem with ISE 11, since the design works fine under ISE 10, but have not gotten very far. Any help anyone can provide on this would be much appreciated. I didn't see ISE 10

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Understanding flow control

2010-01-15 Thread Jeff Brower
Tom- Thanks Matt, Eric and Jonathan (hope I didn't forget anyone. :-) ). We greatly appreciate the information and need to think about stuff on our end. I've been deliberately vague about our application (not that I could really explain it even if I felt authorized discuss it). The thing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Use of bin_statistics

2010-01-14 Thread Jeff Brower
Adib- Important Note: Beside tunning time depends on the hardware (RF syenthesizer speed), one should remameber that the time needed to collect 1024 samples with decimation rate=8 (minimum USRP decimation) is 128 usec while : Time needed to collect 1024 samples with decimation

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio on iphone?

2009-12-11 Thread Jeff Brower
Cosmin- Hey,Could it be possible to install gnuradio on smarphones or iphone (v1 to v3) -maybe a minimal version- in order to get working the usrp (or a minimal harware) with it?Maybe a custom usrp hardware?Changing the dock for example. Interesting question. The Palm Pre and Mot Droid have

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio on iphone?

2009-12-11 Thread Jeff Brower
Cosmin- If all you need is a portable software radio package you can reconfigure and monitor (ie, via a screen), Notre Dame is making big strides in that area https://radioware.nd.edu/prototypes/prototype-portable-software-radio Yes I like very mutch this prototype! It looks like on the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] problem of compiling FPGA bin files.

2009-12-07 Thread Jeff Brower
Juha- Who has had success with 11.x? I'm eager to start working with the usrp2 code, but I cannot get the tools to work. I was on the phone today for 30 minutes with the local Xilinx sales rep and they just won't allow me to get 10.1.03. You can't buy it, you can't get it for free, and you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 Halfband filter coefficients help

2009-11-11 Thread Jeff Brower
Ilkyoung Kwoun- Thank you for your advice. Actually I am aware of basic characteristics of half band filter. It is very well explained in Rick Ryon's Understanding Digital Signal Processing (2nd Ed.) (

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] scope display bug? distortion of sine wave athigh frequency

2009-08-12 Thread Jeff Brower
Milo- I found sine waves will be terribly distorted when they are generated at relatively high frequency(above 5khz) from signal source in GRC. I set the sampl_rate of scope sink to 2Ghz(high enough, I think), and there are always spikes on generated sine wave. This problem is especially

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Standalone USRP1 Operation

2009-04-24 Thread Jeff Brower
Firas- Has anyone tried to run USRP1 without PC? I have an application where a friend supported me with a standalone USRP FPGA image. I used the PC only to load this image to the USRP using gnuradio blocks/tools. After that I can plug-off (disconnect) the USB cable from the PC and USRP

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] uspr2 working intermittently/segmentation fault

2009-04-01 Thread Jeff Brower
Marcus- It appears that you do not have the current firmware (and possibly FPGA image) installed on the SD Card. Please grab the latest from: http://gnuradio.org/releases/usrp2-bin/trunk/ Eric set-curmudgeon-mode(True) Segmentation Fault on the host should *never* be the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Rev4 FX2 firmware question. InitializingFIFOs ?

2009-03-21 Thread Jeff Brower
Ryan- I have been working on modifications to the USRP board so that I can pass a gating signal through the basic RX daughterboard to gate signal collection for a pulsed radar application. This is somewhat working, but I am having problems with data alignment when stopping and starting the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Rev4 FX2 firmware question.InitializingFIFOs ?

2009-03-21 Thread Jeff Brower
Ryan- Could you hack the FX2 firmware and reprogram it to clear its internal buffers and/or reset pointers and counters on Reset? Or if that's already being done, then do it again at some point depending on a signal from the FPGA and/or host driver? I found some threads discussing FX2

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Implementing the USRP1 in another platform

2009-02-05 Thread Jeff Brower
Pablo- The exact question is: Were, in the python code of the GnuRadio core, can I insert the Driver that i mention? I am reading the python code but i can not find were the code read/send data to the USB (to substitute it with the PCI control code). The other question is were in the Verilog

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Sigh

2008-11-18 Thread Jeff Brower
Bob- It appears that TI has withdrawn the free offering of a linux version of its compilers that I pointed out earlier (in October) at this link. https://www-a.ti.com/downloads/sds_support/targetcontent/LinuxDspTools/download.html This is very disappointing. Without free tools it

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using USRP/GNURADIO Commercially

2008-07-21 Thread Jeff Brower
Joel- Your question doesn't make sense to me. If your clients pay you to develop source code that derives from, or partially incorporates, GPL licensed code then they own the developed source, not you. They are responsible for license issues with the newly developed code. If someone were to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using USRP/GNURADIO Commercially

2008-07-21 Thread Jeff Brower
Greg- Your question doesn't make sense to me. If your clients pay you to develop source code that derives from, or partially incorporates, GPL licensed code then they own the developed source, not you. They are responsible for license issues with the newly developed code. This is getting

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio and GPL licensing issues (again)

2008-06-26 Thread Jeff Brower
Michael- Really, really good questions, well formulated. I'm very interested to see the answers -- or advice -- you receive on the forum. -Jeff Michael Dickens wrote: This is similar to the original discussion from 2004; see, e.g.:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] /. poll related to GNU Radio

2008-06-09 Thread Jeff Brower
Philip Balister wrote: Congratulations guys, you've hit the big time: http://news.slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl More here: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/09/1612250 with 168 comments so far. A serious, dedicated engineering forum on the same list as WikiLeaks and Tor? Rob

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM results.

2008-06-06 Thread Jeff Brower
Bob- In your sixteen QAM and other figures I see two effects. Notice just the slightest hint that arcs through the top four constellation points in the 16 QAM is not straight. This curvature is caused by nonlinearity. Your result almost surely can NOT be clock jitter. If you had a lot

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM results.

2008-06-06 Thread Jeff Brower
to jitter. I understand what you are saying now. -Jeff Jeff Brower wrote: Bob- In your sixteen QAM and other figures I see two effects. Notice just the slightest hint that arcs through the top four constellation points in the 16 QAM is not straight. This curvature is caused

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Losing data during long collects

2008-06-04 Thread Jeff Brower
Chris- Is there a way for you to temporarily take file-write out of the equation? I.e. can your code look at the bitstream and know if it remains continuous / intact? The every minute or two thing makes me suspicious that some HDD related thing is going on. 16 MBbyte/sec is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Losing data during long collects

2008-06-04 Thread Jeff Brower
Chris- I've seen cases before where the drive does handle the throughput as advertised, but on an average basis. Under sustained, continuous write circumstances, when the drive reaches a new sector, multiple of sectors, or some other internal space boundary, extra time is taken

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Losing data during long collects

2008-06-03 Thread Jeff Brower
Chris- I'm using the USRP/DBSRX to record data for GPS. GPS tracking demands a continuous stream of data -- dropped bits make tracking impossible. 4Msps of complex data supplies 16 MB/s -- within USB2 bandwidth and my 4 disk RAID0 bandwidth. I record the data using my own c++ version of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UK shops track customers via GNU Radiomonitoring their mobile phones!

2008-05-20 Thread Jeff Brower
John- Danny O'Brien of EFF pointed out this profile of Toby Oliver of Path Intelligence, which uses GNU Radio to build phone-monitoring networks for shops: http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9734052-16.html Toby Oliver, CEO of Path Intelligence, is based in Portsmouth, England,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Proposal Draft: Next Generation Digital VoiceCodecs and Vocoders for Amateur Radio

2008-05-14 Thread Jeff Brower
Bruce- We've been working on a new lowlatency codec for speech and music, CELT, and are about to public a paper on it. (celt-codec.org). While CELT wouldn't be useful for narrowbanded voice some of the components of CELT would be very useful in an AMBE killer. (Particularly CWRS, the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MRFM (Magnetic Resonance Force Microsocopy) andGNU Radio

2008-05-03 Thread Jeff Brower
Jon- The UW Quantum System Engineering Laboratory has written code for Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM). The code is available from http://staff.washington.edu/~jon/gr-mrfm/ Some of the code might be useful to other GNU Radio users. On the FPGA side, there is a 2-stage

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MRFM (Magnetic Resonance Force Microsocopy)andGNU Radio

2008-05-03 Thread Jeff Brower
Jon- I'm curious .. what do use the 'biquad filters' for? I assume you mean that you've implemented a 4th order IIR filter? If so that would mean somewhat non-linear phase depending on the IIR design type. What type are you using? Elliptic? Other? The pair of cascaded

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GnuRadio on PCI-104 (i.e., Fedora onUSBFlash Drive)

2008-05-02 Thread Jeff Brower
William- -Original Message- From: Jeff Brower [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:55 PM To: Bahn, William L Civ USAFA/DFCS Cc: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] GnuRadio on PCI-104 (i.e., Fedora on USBFlash Drive) William

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] GnuRadio on PCI-104 (i.e., Fedora on USBFlash Drive)

2008-05-01 Thread Jeff Brower
William- Isn't there an issue of how much GNU radio can actually do on a Pentium M system? The Lippert board you mention looks like it's limited to 1 GHz or less with passive cooling. I assume this is a mil app, but you can use fan cooling? What will GNU radio actually be doing? -Jeff

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Photo of the Beagle Board and USRP

2008-04-25 Thread Jeff Brower
Brian- On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are talking about the ARM9 core on the OMAP device, right? If so then you can run Linux on the ARM core but overall processing capability will be limited compared to a Xeon or Core2-something PC

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Jeff Brower
Greg- I am trying to figure out the Matlab interface to USRP. Although I could enable the communications between Matlab and GNU Radio, I am wondering whether it is possible to make Matlab hook to USRP directly without GNU radio. Thank you very much! (This isn't entirely directed at you -

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Jeff Brower
Pedro- I understand completely your viewpoint. However, let me point out that one of your key objectives should be to increase popularity of GNU Radio software. One way to do this is to encourage and support GNU Radio software examples that interface with MATLAB in some way. Yes, you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Jeff Brower
Greg- On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I understand completely your viewpoint. However, let me point out that one of your key objectives should be to increase popularity of GNU Radio software. One way to do this is to encourage and support

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Jeff Brower
Matt- I think the problem is that there are basically 2 separate cultures here. There are those coming from the CS and free software world, and those coming from the radio, engineering, academic, industry, hardware, etc. worlds. Those in the free software world often don't understand how

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Jeff Brower
to GNU Radio. -Jeff -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Maxwell Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:42 PM To: Jeff Brower Cc: Matt Ettus; discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP On Wed

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question: Setting Rx-A and RX-B Daughterboardon simultaneously

2008-03-31 Thread Jeff Brower
Jason- Unfortunately, it didn't. I would like to know how to get data from the two sides of a SINGLE Rx Daughterboard. Currently, I have a daughterboard at the RXA side of the USRP. I want to get data from both input ports of that single daughterboard. Is this possible? Could I ask you not

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 JTAG functionality [was Exposing more JTAG functionallity in FX2firmware]

2008-03-31 Thread Jeff Brower
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, has there been any effort to expose more JTAG functionality via the FX2 so that the USRP FX2 firmware could be used with modified other JTAG software, like xc3sprog. As far as I can tell, not without some

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 JTAG functionality [was Exposing moreJTAG functionallity in FX2firmware]

2008-03-31 Thread Jeff Brower
Matt- This reminds me of a question I have about USRP2. My understanding is the USRP2 has a Xilinx Spartan 3, which I don't think come in anything other than BGA packages. Hopefully Matt brought the JTAG lines out in case people want to deadbug a header and use standard tools. Even

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-24 Thread Jeff Brower
Eric- I got the DV Dongle friday and it seems to work. I downloaded an application to decode DStar on the computer but DStar is not very popular in the area yet. I have not decoded any DStar voice so far. I only did a AMBE loopback test. I got concerned because all the application

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-24 Thread Jeff Brower
Eric- APCO Project 25 has quite a number of standards documents. If you look at a list for vocoders: ANSI/TIA/EIA 102.BABA Vocoder Description ANSI/TIA/EIA 102.BABB-A Vocoder Mean Opinion Score (MOS) Test ANSI/TIA/EIA 102.BABC Vocoder Reference Test ANSI/TIA/EIA 102.BABD Vocoder Selection

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-24 Thread Jeff Brower
Gregory- You guys do realize that the 'hardware' AMBE solutions are just software running on a TI DSP, don't you? Have you been following this thread and mention of TI DSPs, other low bitrate codecs that run on TI DSPs (MELPe), etc? We were speculating on which underlying TI chip that DVSI

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-24 Thread Jeff Brower
Eric- Can you clarify for me, why should the DV Dongle contents be open source? What GNU licensed code are they using that requires them to give back? The DV Dongle device uses open source firmware. Do you mean inside the Dongle? If so, which firmware? It appears the manufacturer is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-24 Thread Jeff Brower
Eric- Can you clarify for me, why should the DV Dongle contents be open source? What GNU licensed code are they using that requires them to give back? The DV Dongle device uses open source firmware. Do you mean inside the Dongle? If so, which firmware? From the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-21 Thread Jeff Brower
Rick Are these publications actual C code, along with input/output test vectors that can be used to verify bit-exact performance of a software implementation? This is not a reference implementation. The documents describe the algorithm(s) down to the bit level. It is not tied to a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Hello everyone. I am a new here. I have somequestions.

2008-03-21 Thread Jeff Brower
Alex- I was posting to GNURadio about an year ago but I got busy and then I stopped. I have again started reading about GNURadio and hope to devote my free time this entire year on GNURadio. So I have started reading Discrete Time Signal Processing by Oppenheim / Schafer / Buck.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-21 Thread Jeff Brower
David- On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 04:23:00PM -0500, Rick Parrish wrote: Jeff Brower wrote: All the standardized codecs that I know of, both ones with IP rights requirements and free ones, provide a reference design, typically fixed-point C code plus test vectors. I wonder why DVSI has

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-20 Thread Jeff Brower
Rick- Is this a DVSI licensed and publically available closed source module or something unofficial or not generally available to the world at large ? It has obviously long been possible to recode some reverse engineered DSP chip based IMBE implemenation into C++ source code for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-20 Thread Jeff Brower
Eric- - Start Original Message - Sent: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:29:57 -0400 From: David I. Emery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rick Parrish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 07:38:13PM -0500, Rick Parrish wrote: Jeff

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-20 Thread Jeff Brower
Eric- This picture of the prototype shows it is a TI chip. http://www.moetronix.com/dvdongle/ The problem is it may be a ROM or protected Flash version of the DSP chip. I paid for a AMBE codec so I do not want to destroy the internal programming, Yes it's probably a ROM'ed version, but

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-19 Thread Jeff Brower
Rick- I am also thinking of writing a APCO P25 Voice to AMBE2000 frame converter and see if the device can decode P25 as well. This may be a general IMBE and AMBE codec. I hope so. I looked at this a while back. What concerned me most was the AMBE2000/2020 documentation seemed to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-19 Thread Jeff Brower
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 07:02:08AM -0600, Jeff Brower wrote: Rick- I am also thinking of writing a APCO P25 Voice to AMBE2000 frame converter and see if the device can decode P25 as well. This may be a general IMBE and AMBE codec. I hope so. I looked

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Delay

2008-03-06 Thread Jeff Brower
Per- After implementing Eric's advice, please post the minimum delay value you obtain. I'm interested to hear. Thanks. Changin the fusb_* parameters didn't change my results. By reducing the buffer size (of the reads and writes) the delay is reduced down to around 1ms (I have some

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