M-block/in-band signaling status/questions

GNU Radio
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Hey guys,

Our Group currently has a 2x2 MIMO-OFDM system implemented on the
USRP/GNU
radio platform and we are planning on implementing a 4x4 MIMO-OFDM
system
which we need working in the next couple of months. We are trying to
decide
between a custom FPGA solution and the in-band signaling/m-block
solution.

We saw these recent posts:

http://www.nabble.com/m-block-<-->-GR-block-integration-t4536641.html

http://www.nabble.com/in-band-signaling-project-overview-tf4610363.html#a131
66091

These indicated that the in-band signaling /m-block implementation is
almost
complete but we are unclear about what is done and what need to be
completed. Some specific questions we have are?

Status:

  1. Is the code in the testing phase or development phase, is there a
    timeline for completion?

  2. Is there a “hello world” example for m-block/in-band
    signaling?(Simple
    waveform packet tx/rx with all the functionality)

  3. Where can we find the code documentation?

Compatibility:

Is the m-bock wrapper for flow graphs (as outlined in the BBN doc)
implemented? Specifically, what is the interface between the legacy code
and
the in-band signaling code? Would we need to redo all our signal
processing
blocks?

Any other comments/suggestions are appreciated.

Sanmi

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On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:27:36AM -0500, sanmi wrote:

  1. Is the code in the testing phase or development phase, is there a
    timeline for completion?

Still in the development phase.

  1. Is there a “hello world” example for m-block/in-band signaling?(Simple
    waveform packet tx/rx with all the functionality)

No, we’re not there yet.

  1. Where can we find the code documentation?

You’re still early. The development code isn’t merged into the
trunk. What docs there are are the doxygen comments in the .h files.

Compatibility:

Is the m-bock wrapper for flow graphs (as outlined in the BBN doc)
implemented?

Not yet.

Specifically, what is the interface between the legacy code and
the in-band signaling code? Would we need to redo all our signal processing
blocks?

You shouldn’t have to reimplement your signal processing blocks.

Any other comments/suggestions are appreciated.

This stuff isn’t ready for use yet, and the API’s are not yet stable.

Sanmi

Eric