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GNU Radio provide a set of signal processing tools for the computer Hundreds of signal processing blocks Graphical utilities Can tie in with hardware such as the usrp and various ADC / dcp pci cards. Using python to create flow graphs and connect signal blocks? how to write a new signal processing block in C++?

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Gnu Radio Usrp Quick Tutorial

GNU Radio provide a set of signal processing tools for the computer Hundreds of signal processing blocks Graphical utilities Can tie in with hardware such as the usrp and various ADC / dcp pci cards. Using python to create flow graphs and connect signal blocks? how to write a new signal processing block in C++?

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GNU RADIO & USRP - A QUICK TUTORIAL

Tran Minh Trung ICE1332 Summer semester 2008 / Information and Communication University

Overview
How to install
Fedora Ubuntu

Understanding & Using GNU Radio


Which signal blocks are provided by GNU Radio? How to use python to create flow graphs and connect signal blocks? How to write a new signal processing block in C++?

An example: FM Radio receiver

Installation Guide for Fedora


1. Install all basic required package for building GNU radio
$ yum groupinstall "Engineering and Scientific" "Development Tools" $ yum install fftw-devel cppunit-devel wxPython-devel libusb-devel guile boost-devel alsa-lib-devel numpy

2. Download and build GNU Radio


$ svn co http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk gnuradio $ ./bootstrap # Do NOT perform this step if you are building from a tarball. $ ./configure $ make $ make check $ sudo make install

3. Install small device C compiler for USRP


$ yum install sdcc $ export PATH=/usr/libexec/sdcc:$PATH

4. Export python environment parameter


$ export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages

5. Test an USRP application


./usrp_wfm_rcv.py -f 96.3

Installation Guide for Ubuntu


Ubuntu already added GNU Radio packages to their repositories
System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager Search gnuradio Select all related gnuradio libs and then apply to install

To install from console by using command line:


Check: http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/UbuntuInstall

Understanding & using GNU Radio


GNU Radio provide a set of signal processing tools for the computer
Hundreds of signal processing blocks Graphical utilities Can tie in with hardware such as the USRP and various ADC/DAC pci cards

Using GNU Radio


Which signal blocks are provided by GNU Radio? How to use python to create flow graphs and connect signal blocks? How to write a new signal processing block in C++?

Signal Processing Blocks Provided by GNU Radio

GNU Radio documentations generated by Doxygen


On your PC after installing GNU Radio: /usr/local/share/doc/gnuradio-core-x.xcvs/html/index.html Online document: http://gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/index.html

Python: Create flow graphs and connect signal blocks


Learn basic Python syntax
Learn Python in 10 minutes: http://www.poromenos.org/tutorials/python Basic tutorial: http://nltk.org/doc/en/programming.html

Learn how to use python to create flow graph and connect signal blocks
Graph, Blocks & Connecting
http://www.nd.edu/~jnl/sdr/docs/tutorials/6.html

Learn by examples
http://www.nd.edu/~jnl/sdr/docs/tutorials/5.html http://www.joshknows.com/?key=gnuradio#example

Graph, Blocks & Connecting


V1
C++

V1 V3
C++

V3 V2 Source
C++ C++

V2
C++

C++

Sink

C++
Performance-critical modules

Python
Glue to connect modules Non performance-critical modules

Tutorial: http://www.nd.edu/~jnl/sdr/docs/tutorials/6.html
Chen Zhifeng, Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Florida

Hello world example


Generates two sine waves and outputs them to the sound card
Importing necessary module

generates two sine waves Writes sampling _freq input to the sound card connect the blocks together

More complicated examples (demo)


FM Receiver:
http://www.nd.edu/~jnl/sdr/docs/tutorials/5.html

How to Write a Signal Processing Block


Implement a class derived from gr_block in C++ Use SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator) to generate the interface between Python and C++ Provide a python module in gnuradio package, allowing us to access the new block in a simply way References
http://www.nd.edu/~jnl/sdr/docs/tutorials/10.html http://www.nd.edu/~jnl/sdr/docs/tutorials/11.html

References
GNU Radio
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/

SDR Documents:
http://www.nd.edu/~jnl/sdr/docs/

GNU Radio 3.0svn Documentation


http://gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/index.html

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