Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Support for 8-bit USB samples in GRC

[Marcus D. Leech]

Firas Abbas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When working with 8 bit samples, you must disable FPGA halfband filter see 
> (http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/UsrpFAQ/DDC). 
>
> To do so, the USRP (via GRC) should load the "std_4rx_0tx.rbf" image.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Firas
>
>
>
>   
I have confirmed that using the "std_4rx_0tx.rbf" firmware works OK.   I
tested this by patching in that firmware
  into the grc_gnuradio/usrp  code, but a more-general solution is
definitely called for.

Perhaps there's should be a "firmware" parameter in the USRP source/sink
blocks.

-- 
Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator, Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org