Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] software radio reception delay

[Eric Blossom]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 02:54:47PM +0200, Jiri Pittner wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am a new user of USRP and I am a bit surprized about the "latency" of USRP
> reception: I have tried usrp_nbfm_rcv.py and a hardware scanner at the same
> frequency and I have observed, that the software radio is about 0.3-0.5
> seconds delayed after the hardware radio. DO you know the reason for this
> behavior, is it inherent to the software approach, or it can be avoided by
> smarter coding? In some raio applications, such latencies are obviously not 
> acceptable.
> 
> Best regards,
> Jiri

See comentary in last week's postings about two clock problem with
USRP and audio.

Eric