Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MSB

[Eric Blossom]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:55:46AM -0700, Matt Ettus wrote:
> 
> >No particular fault.  However, the outputs from the USRP are almost
> >always some kind of complex values.  They may be encoded as 16-bit I &
> >Q, or 8-bit I & Q or 4-bit or 2-bit or 1-bit.  The question is how do
> >we want to deal with them downstream from the USRP?  The existing
> >usrp.source_s could be considered broken (although there are users of
> >it.)  The data is really interleaved 16-bit I & Q, though it's
> >presented as if each sample was only 16-bits wide.  In fact a "sample"
> >is really composed of 2 16-bit values.
> >  
> 
> 
> Maybe we should make gr_complex_short be  a typedef for complex<short> 
> and output those.
> 
> Matt

That would make sense.
We'd need to come up with some kind of unambiguous naming convention
for the variants.

Eric