[Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio on embedded systems

2008-04-17 Thread Philip Balister
GNU Radio runs on an ARM Cortex-A8 cpu: http://www.flickr.com/photos/koenkooi/2420765852/ This processor has the ARM Neon instructions which include SIMD single precision floating point. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4808904795.html There is also a high speed USB port, but we haven't been

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Philip Balister
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Greg Troxel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There has been some recent discussion about using Free software that has matlab-like features, like octave and freemat. http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ http://freemat.sourceforge.net/ I did some poking around the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Philip Balister
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But there is no arguing with success, and MATLAB is highly successful. For GNU Radio to succeed it should gracefully navigate the RF community real world, and MATLAB is a key part of that. The pragmatic approach involves

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Cannot compile on Archlinux due to missing includes

2008-04-07 Thread Philip Balister
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Eric Blossom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for pointing these out. You're using a later version of GCC than most of us use for development. This shouldn't be a problem, but sometimes new versions of gcc show places where we're being sloppy. This might

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Quadrature demodulation of FM

2008-03-29 Thread Philip Balister
I think you want to look at Richard Lyon's book on DSP, Fig 13-61(b). The book should be on the recommended reading list for GNU Radio. I think this is an implementation of the algorithm you are trying to implement. I've used this method successfully with the OSSIE SCA code from VT.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 proof computer.

2008-03-18 Thread Philip Balister
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Per Zetterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am about to buy a new computer. Preferably a laptop. However, in the future I may be using USRP2. Is there any Dell laptop that can be recommended (my university has a deal with Dell) ? Mine worked fine

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio on embedded systems

2008-02-26 Thread Philip Balister
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Eric Blossom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 05:54:08AM -0500, Philip Balister wrote: The core doesn't have much floating point in it. What do you mean by core? The gnuradio-core directory src/lib directory contains directories that contain

[Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio on embedded systems

2008-02-24 Thread Philip Balister
Has anyone looked at GNU Radio on an embedded system seriously? I've built it for an ARM processor and heard that the dial tone example will work. I'm particularly interested in using the python-less method of connecting blocks. I understand that many of the GNU radio blocks are written using

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Planning for the future

2008-02-13 Thread Philip Balister
On Feb 13, 2008 11:15 AM, Eric Blossom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I expect to start on the thread-per-block scheduler either next week or the week after. This should enable us to make good use of SMP machines. Hopefully, this question makes some sense, my background is in the SCA which is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Python 3.0 backward incompatible

2008-02-01 Thread Philip Balister
I read the article (the subject is pretty inflammatory) and it does sound like the Python guys do have a reasonable timetable (Python 3 release in 2009) and that python 2.6 will happen and contain features to help people move toward python 3.0. Philip On Feb 1, 2008 2:40 PM, Newell Jensen [EMAIL

[Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio and ohloh

2008-01-23 Thread Philip Balister
Any interest in adding GNU Radio to ohloh? http://www.ohloh.org/ Philip ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Need info for paper.

2008-01-19 Thread Philip Balister
On Jan 18, 2008 11:17 PM, Bob McGwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two of the Lyrtech boards and with the develpment tools for DSP chip and FPGA. Using Matlab simulink, and code generation, etc. for rapid prototyping this is just about ohh, one hundred grand.. In my spare time I am

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Porting GNURadio to arm-linux platform

2007-08-15 Thread Philip Balister
Koen Kooi has run the dial tone example on the openmoko phone. (ARM based). Take a look at openembedded, we have added support for building gnu radio there. http://wwwo.openembedded.org Philip On 8/15/07, Younghun Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to port GNURadio packages to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OpenMoko

2007-07-28 Thread Philip Balister
On 7/10/07, John Bratteli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may be behind the times with this, but have any of you looked at the OpenMoko project? It's an open source cell phone software stack. They're not consumer ready yet, but the Neo1973 was recently put up for sale as developer hardware.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Stand Alone USRP applications?

2007-07-28 Thread Philip Balister
On 7/27/07, John Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there examples outside of the GNURadio set of stuff which use the USRP as a highspeed data acquisition device, and would allow one to build an application around it. I have created a device interfacing the USRP to the OSSIE SCA software and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Deeper story on FCC versus open source SDR

2007-07-26 Thread Philip Balister
Some more takes on the FCC position. My favorite is the second. The line The Software Defined Radio (SDR) Forum politely responded that the FCC did not know what it was doing and asked it to get a clue. amuses me.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PS3 and gnuradio

2007-07-12 Thread Philip Balister
OK, using OpenEmbedded, I built a file sysem image with GNU Radio (from svn) for my EFIKA board. usrper can set the led fine :) Now, I am not a GNU Radio user. I do have these files in /usr/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ usrp usrp_cal_dc_offset usrp_ra_receiver.pyusrper usrp_flex.py

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OpenMoko

2007-07-10 Thread Philip Balister
The radio portion of the phone is not an open source SDR solution. The open source part of the phone is for the user interface/PDA type functions. Basically, this is a GSM phone that allows you to create your own mobile applications. I saw a talk by Sean at FOSDEM last February. He has some

[Discuss-gnuradio] FCC creates obstacles for Open Source software radio

2007-07-06 Thread Philip Balister
Found on /. I wonder how much Cisco paid for the words http://news.com.com/Feds+snub+open+source+for+smart+radios/2100-1041_3-6195102.html?tag=nefd.lede Philip ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Codec inclusion policy

2007-05-10 Thread Philip Balister
This link might interest you guys: http://code.google.com/soc/gnome/appinfo.html?csaid=2EE7AB46D7D1579E I'm not sure where it stands wrt to the whole google SoC project, but I figured it is worth mentioning here. Philip On 5/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 May

[Discuss-gnuradio] usrp-0.13.tar.gz ?

2007-02-20 Thread Philip Balister
We use the usrp software, currently at 0.12, with the OSSIE project to talk to the USRP. I know that GNU radio is now distributed as one large tarball. Will there be another release of the usrp library for people who do not use the main GNU Radio code? Basically, there are some new dbid's we

[Discuss-gnuradio] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source track during Symposium

2007-02-19 Thread Philip Balister
Please forward this to other appropriate lists. Thanks, Philip 2007 Virginia Tech Symposium on Wireless Personal Communications http://wireless.vt.edu/symposium.htm June 6-8, 2007 Special Track for Open Source Software Defined Radio. For the 16th annual Wireless Symposium, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TAPR Open Hardware License -- Public Comment Period

2007-02-12 Thread Philip Balister
I haven't done much reading on Open Hardware licenses, but I am aware of one other effort to develop an open hardware license. http://balloonboard.org/balloonwiki/OpenHardwareLicense Philip On 2/12/07, John Ackermann N8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all -- For the last several months, I've

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with linux 2.6.19.1

2007-01-25 Thread Philip Balister
I've run a USRP connected to my EFIKA (powerpc) board. The kernel is based off 2.7.19-rc6. I realize this kernel may be different than a more mainstream kernel, but I wouldn't expect any dramatic differences in interfaces. Maybe there is a kernel config change? Philip On 1/24/07, Eric Blossom

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PlayStation 3

2007-01-18 Thread Philip Balister
On 1/17/07, Eric Blossom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general, is OE the answer, or are there other cross development environments that we should be looking at? It looks like OE was designed to solve the build an entire system image, including kernel, boot loader, etc. That may be overkill for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PlayStation 3

2007-01-18 Thread Philip Balister
On 1/16/07, Bob McGwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand the need and/or desire to do this natively but we really want to be doing cross platform for this target. 256 MB is not enough for these large compiles. OK, I can build gnuradio for the EFIKA board (powerpc) using OE now. Well, the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PlayStation 3

2007-01-17 Thread Philip Balister
On 1/16/07, Bob McGwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand the need and/or desire to do this natively but we really want to be doing cross platform for this target. 256 MB is not enough for these large compiles. I've spent a little time trying to build GNU Radio for my EFIKA board using

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SWIG compilation speedup!

2007-01-15 Thread Philip Balister
I just got the USRP running with an EFIKA board and OSSIE SCA. I'm using the usrp-0.12 tarball. I had to use a USB2.0 controller in the PCI slot to work around the usrp USB full speed problems I am having. I took a quick look at using openembedded to build gnu radio. Thet already support most of

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP connected to EFIKA

2007-01-09 Thread Philip Balister
It seems like my hobby is attaching USRP's to non-PC based hardware. Todays board is an EFIKA: http://www.genesippc.com/efika.php Here are the results of the usrp test programs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/sca/waveforms/ossie_demo$ test_usrp_standard_rx -D 256 xfered 1.34e+08 bytes in 268 seconds.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP and USB full speed (1.1) transmit

2006-12-08 Thread Philip Balister
Remember that the GPIF is currently set up to DMA 256 16-bit values. Perhaps that part needs changing. The magic value is probably buried in the WaveData table in usrp_gpif.c I looked over the GPIF stuff with the Cypress tool I do not see any reference to transfer size in there. I am thinking

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP and USB full speed (1.1) transmit

2006-12-07 Thread Philip Balister
I've been working on adding USB1.1 (full speed) support to the USRP software/firmware so I can use it with a TI OSK board. I've been going back and forth with Matt on some issues and we are getting out of his area of expertise. Here is summary of progress to date. After modifying the 8051 code I

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP and USB full speed (1.1) transmit

2006-11-29 Thread Philip Balister
I've been working on getting the usrp working with a USB full speed interface connected to an OMAP starter kit (OSK) board from TI. I'm not using GNU Radio, but the OSSIE open source SCA. The OSK only has a USB 11 controller that sends 64 byte packets, not the 512 byte packets sent by USB2.0 high

[Discuss-gnuradio] Additional decimation in USRP

2006-10-17 Thread Philip Balister
I have a narrowband FM receiver running (not based on GNU radio) using the usrp library and the USRP hardware. I would be helpful if the USRP firmware could reduce the sample to 25 ksps from the current 250 ksps at the maximum decimation factor. I want to try run ning my FM receiver on a TI OSK

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP and USB 1.1

2006-10-17 Thread Philip Balister
The guy in the cubicle next to me says that it is possible to talk to a USRP from inside a vmware player using my USB1.1 patch for the USRP library. It is to early to tell if you can do anything useful from vmware, but he did successfully run the tx and rx programs. Hopefully, we can use this to

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP install instructions

2006-09-14 Thread Philip Balister
The FC5 USRP install instructions reference this page on the wiki: http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/UdevConfig Unfortunately, this page uses some (apparently) debian specific commands to set up the group file. Should I figure out how to do this using more generic group commands, or create a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP install instructions

2006-09-14 Thread Philip Balister
at 01:03:16PM -0400, Philip Balister wrote: The FC5 USRP install instructions reference this page on the wiki: http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/UdevConfig Unfortunately, this page uses some (apparently) debian specific commands to set up the group file. Should I figure out how to do this using more

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP install instructions

2006-09-14 Thread Philip Balister
Hmm, I have some stuff that makes /dev/bus/usb ... change to 666 perms. It doesn't fix the group.I guess that is progress. Any FC5 udev gurus have any thoughts?PhilipOn 9/14/06, Philip Balister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually it looks like you can use /usr/bin/groupadd and /usr/sbin/usermod -G

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP install instructions

2006-09-14 Thread Philip Balister
, Philip Balister wrote: Actually it looks like you can use /usr/bin/groupadd and /usr/sbin/usermod -G usrp username to set up the group file. udev is seriously pissing me off at the moment because it still doesn't work on the machine I am trying this on, I have some other schemes that sort of work

[Discuss-gnuradio] Block diagram of USRP

2006-07-25 Thread Philip Balister
I need a block diagram of the USRP for a report. I'd like to get one done in dia or inkscape (which ever is more appropriate). I suspect several people here could use such a beast. If I need to do my own, I'll post the file so others (with hopefully more talent than me) can improve it.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] libusrp and usb hubs

2006-06-29 Thread Philip Balister
Sounds like the hub is only doing USB full speed support, not high speed. Philip Jim Lindstrom wrote: Hey gang, I've been using the USRP without GNURadio from time to time, just using libusrp to talk to it. Yesterday, I had some cabling problems and couldn't get my signal close enough to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded systems with gnuradio

2006-05-31 Thread Philip Balister
Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: Why is gnuradio-core-* stuff not included in OE? Are there any dependencies which are blocking it? Mostly because I am the OSSIE SCA guy, not a real gnuradio guy :) I don't know enough about building the rest of gnu radio enough to know where problems,

[Discuss-gnuradio] USB2.0 card question

2006-01-05 Thread Philip Balister
We have a guy trying get his computer to talk to a USRP. Unfortunately his computer only has USB 1.1 ports. Does anyone have any experience using a cheap USB2.0 card in such a PC? We are thinking of running out and grabbing a card and trying it. Thanks, Philip smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP DDC usage

2005-05-25 Thread Philip Balister
I'm working on making a SCA component for the usrp based on the usrp standard interface. I've got a few questions on how to use the DDC's and the input mux. If I set the mux word to 0x33221100 (and the number of channels to four) I believe I will have 4 channels of complex data from each A2D. If

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