Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Grc RFNOC block error

[Nikos Balkanas]

tyvm:)​

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Jonathon Pendlum <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Nikos,

1) The Fosphor RFNoC block does not compute a FFT. It does the averaging and persistence.

2) For RFNoC flowgraphs, you want to use a RFNoC Radio block so you do not transition out of the FPGA processing domain as would happen the USRP source / sink block. We want to stay in the FPGA processing domain for as long as possible before transitioning to host processing.

The QT display is used to display Fosphor's output on your PC / laptop's monitor. Everything related to actually displaying graphics is done on the host, but the computation to generate those graphics is done on the FPGA.

Jonathon

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Balkanas <address@hidden> wrote:

Correction: Spectrum shows fine. Just had to enlarge the panel:)

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 1:26 AM, Nikos Balkanas <address@hidden> wrote:

Thanks Jonathan,

That helps a lot. I still don't get a spectrum, but I get a nice fosphor panel and no timeout errors. A couple of questions:

1) You seem to be using 2 ffts: RFNoC FFT and RFNoC Fosphor. You can only do 1 FFT. What's the difference between those 2?

2) You start with an RFNoC Radio instead of a USRP source. Does that mean that the flow is intended to run from the FPGA? What is the meaning of the QT display in such a scenario?

BR,

Nikos

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Jonathon Pendlum <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Nikos,

Have you tried running the example fosphor flowgraph in gr-ettus/examples/rfnoc?

Jonathon

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Nikos Balkanas <address@hidden> wrote:

Upon closer inspection I do get a few runtime errors:

timeout on chan 0

Looks like smt is amiss in my flow. Any ideas about that?

TIA

Nikos

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 12:07 AM, Nikos Balkanas <address@hidden> wrote:

Tyvm Jason,

That did it. I don't actually need to set the X300's addr and type to anything. It defaults to the first one it finds, and I got only 1 ;-)

I got the top block running without any errors. Not much of a fosphor display, like I'm used to, but I'm happy i didn't get any errors:)

BR,

Nikos

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Jason Matusiak <address@hidden> wrote:

(accidentally sent original response to the wrong mailing list. sorry)

Nikos, All RFNoC scripts require a Device3 block.  If you look under UHD>RFNoC in GRC you will see Device3.  Just add that to your design (no connections needed) and if you are using an X310, set your device argument to "addr=xx.yy.zz.aa" and device address to "type=x300".

Make sense?

_______________________________________________
Discuss-gnuradio mailing list
address@hidden
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio