I’m new to GNU Radio and would like encode and decode manchester…I
looked
through the documentation for manchester or L encoding but did not see
any
thing. I was wondering if someone could point me in the right
direction?
TIA
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:39 AM, w w [email protected] wrote:
I’m new to GNU Radio and would like encode and decode manchester…I looked
through the documentation for manchester or L encoding but did not see any
thing. I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction?
There isn’t a ready-made GNU Radio block for either encoding or
decoding Manchester-coded signals; you’ll need to write your own.
This is done using C++ and is exemplified by the
gr-howto-write-a-block subdirectory in the tree.
Since you are new to GNU Radio, I highly recommend that you first
familiarize yourself with existing flowgraph concepts by studying the
examples provided, and achieve an understanding of overall GNU Radio
operation with existing blocks. Then, study the C++ code for existing
blocks to see examples of how various DSP techniques are implemented
within. While Manchester coding itself is a fairly simple algorithm,
the GNU Radio runtime environment will add a degree of complexity to
your implementation.
A common pitfall for beginning GNU Radio users is to dive right into
custom blocks, or worse, into GUI programming with custom blocks, and
struggle to learn five different things at once instead of one at a
time. Save yourself some grief 
Things to keep in mind:
-
If you’re operating at passband using FSK, there will be a
time-varying frequency offset between your transmitter and receiver.
This will show up as a wandering DC level after FM demodulation and
you’ll need to track this out before slicing to bits. -
Even at baseband, there will be timing differences between what your
transmitter and receiver consider one bit period. Since
Manchester-coded signals are self-clocking, in an analog world this
would not be an issue. In an SDR implementation, you’ll need to
oversample and implement a digital PLL to keep the transitions
centered within the bit period.
Have fun…
-Johnathan