Receiving on both sub devices at the same time (LFRX)

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Hi all helpful GR people :slight_smile:

I am trying to combine the two sub device on a LFRX card, but I can not
find any documentation on the USRP dual source. GRC has it’s own block
“grc_usrp.dual_source_c”, but using this (configured with GRC) I get the
error:

TypeError: init() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘side_b’

How can this be overcome?

I am not able to find a dual source from the plain GR library, but it
may exist? However, I have tried to use two separate USRP sources and
specify separate sub devices on the two:

self.usrp_source_0a = usrp.source_c(0, 64) # Decimation factor: 64
#self.usrp_source_0a.db(0, 0) # Side A, sub device A
usrp.selected_subdev (self.usrp_source_0a, (0,0)) # Side A, sub device A
self.usrp_source_0a.set_rx_freq(0, 0) # Set frequency 0 Hz

self.usrp_source_0b = usrp.source_c(0, 64) # Decimation factor: 64
#self.usrp_source_0b.db(0, 1) # Side A, sub device B
usrp.selected_subdev (self.usrp_source_0b, (0,1)) # Side A, sub device B
self.usrp_source_0a.set_rx_freq(0, 0) # Set frequency 0 Hz

This however also fails. It seams the reason is that the USRP is already
taken by the first instance:

usrp_open_interface:usb_claim_interface: failed interface 2
usb_claim_interface: couldn’t claim interface
usrp_basic_rx: can’t open rx interface

What then is the correct way to receive on both sub devices on the same
time?

  • Einar
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Opps, forgot to cc the list

Einar T. wrote:

Hi all helpful GR people :slight_smile:

I am trying to combine the two sub device on a LFRX card, but I can not
find any documentation on the USRP dual source. GRC has it’s own block
“grc_usrp.dual_source_c”, but using this (configured with GRC) I get the
error:

TypeError: init() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘side_b’

Can you post the python code that GRC generated for the flow graph?
side_b is a keyword argument in init, I am afraid that you may have
multiple versions of gnuradio installed… What version of gnuradio are
you running?

How can this be overcome?

I am not able to find a dual source from the plain GR library, but it
may exist? However, I have tried to use two separate USRP sources and
specify separate sub devices on the two:

The USRP blocks in grc are special wrappers around the current usrp api
(to make life easier). You can use them in any custom flow graph. To
understand usage, I would take a look at the generated python code with
a usrp dual source.

also see:
http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/trunk/grc/src/grc_gnuradio/usrp

This however also fails. It seams the reason is that the USRP is already
taken by the first instance:

usrp_open_interface:usb_claim_interface: failed interface 2
usb_claim_interface: couldn’t claim interface
usrp_basic_rx: can’t open rx interface

You have to do something like, create one usrp source, create 2
subdevices, and deinterleave the usrp stream into 2 streams. See the
link posted above to get an idea.

-Josh

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On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Einar T.
[email protected]wrote:

What then is the correct way to receive on both sub devices on the same
time?

  • Einar

I Use 2 LFRX boards to get 4 channels (for only 2 channels you don’t
have to
do anything special as the default image handles that automatically) of
real
data each sampled at 2Msps. Here is the python code to do that. I think
you
are looking for the second line.

self.rx_src = usrp.source_c(fpga_filename=“std_4rx_0tx.rbf”)
rx_subdev = self.rx_src.db[0]+self.rx_src.db[1]
self.rx_src.set_mux(gru.hexint(0xf3f2f1f0)) #Sets all Q to zero
deinterleaver_usrp = gr.deinterleave(gr.sizeof_gr_complex)
self.connect(self.rx_src,skip_head_0,deinterleaver_usrp)

Real [(deinterleaver_usrp,0)] → SideAA
Real [(deinterleaver_usrp,1)] → SideAB
Real [(deinterleaver_usrp,2)] → SideBA
Real [(deinterleaver_usrp,3)] → SideBB

Hope that helps.

Karthik

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Josh B. wrote:

Can you post the python code that GRC generated for the flow graph?

The python code is attached to this e-mail. Is it possible to see the
problem from the python file?

side_b is a keyword argument in init, I am afraid that you may have
multiple versions of gnuradio installed… What version of gnuradio are
you running?

I did try to look around (and use “locate”) without finding several
parallel versions of GNU Radio installed. I went on deleting all GNU
Radio related in “/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/” and
“/usr/local/share/” before reinstalling from the latest SVN revision
(10443).

I am not able to test with the USRP again until to morrow, so I can not
confirm whether or not this made any difference, but I did not see
anything that to me indicated several versions (I may be wrong).

also see:
http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/trunk/grc/src/grc_gnuradio/usrp

You have to do something like, create one usrp source, create 2
subdevices, and deinterleave the usrp stream into 2 streams. See the
link posted above to get an idea.

I have read some of the files in the above URL, and will give doing it
manually a try to morrow if the problem with the dual-sink persists.
However I suspect that the dual source will be preferable if possible,
as it will be more readable and easy to implement.

  • Einar