Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re Spectrum sensing Simulation Only

[Marcus Müller]

Hi Tadilo,

have you made sure that specest was correctly installed? (make && make
install)

Greetings,
Marcus

On 30.07.2014 20:48, Bogale, Tadilo Endeshaw wrote:
> Hello Martin
>
> Thank you for the help. I try to run "specest_noisy_sinusoid_mtm.py" (Python 
> script is also okey for me). However it does not run "it says no module 
> specest". 
>
> By the way I am using windows 8 OS.
>
> My goal is is to write a simple python or gnuradio code to perform the 
> following task
>
> I have the following variables
>
> NFFT=1024
> Nav=512
> ampl=1
> seed=1
> Sampling_rate= 10k
>
> 1. Generate any real time signal (This could be done by using 
> "gr.noise_source_f (gr.GR_GAUSSIAN, ampl, seed1)).
>
> 2. Insert throttle to control the sampling rate (i.e., gr.throttle(1, 
> Sampling_rate))
>
> 3. Compute the FFT (even without windowing) (i.e., NFFT samples at a time)
>
>     Let me assume that after I compute FFT and I got an "x" vector of size 
> NFFT
>
> 4. Compute the square magnitude of x (This could be done by using 
> gr.complex_to_mag_squared(NFFT))
>
> i.e., in matlab y=abs(x).^2
>
> 4. sum the first and second Nav samples
>
> i.e., av1=sum(y(1:512))/Nav and
>        av2=sum(y(513:1024))/Nav
>
> 5. Then display "av1" and "av2" in a text box continuously.
>
> Note that in matlab (without GUI it is very easy task)
>
> And I feel that there should be some simple approach to do it in GNUradio
>
> Thank you again for your help
>
> ---
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> ________________________________________
> From: address@hidden address@hidden On Behalf Of Martin Braun address@hidden
> Sent: July 30, 2014 10:01 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Spectrum sensing Simulation Only
>
> On 07/30/2014 03:37 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote:
>> The easiest way to average is to use the single_pole_iir_filter to
>> smooth out the data stream. But note that you're coming out of the FFT
>> block as a vector. You can set the vector length of the single pole IIR,
>> but I'd have to review exactly what that means mathematically. It
>> probably smooths the entire vector as one as opposed to smoothing over
>> index i in each vector. You might have to play around with that.
> gr-specest might help you with that (pybombs install gr-specest, or
> https://github.com/kit-cel/gr-specest).
>
> M
>
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