Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP network based spectrum analyzer

[Phelps Williams]

Thanks Marcus!

I took your idea and ran with it but encountered a funny issue.  I'm slightly confused about the output of the logpwrfft (which is giving me the output of gr_fft_vcc).  I've been assuming that logpwrfft returns a vector of amplitudes in dB for each fft bin.  Lets say my fft size is 1024, I'm assuming vector index 0 is the lowest frequency and vector index 1023 is the maximum frequency.  In plotting these values it appears to be something different.

I can only guess vector index 0 is the center frequency, index 511 is the max frequency and index 512 is the min frequency.  Digging around gr_fft_vcc and I didn't see an obvious answer.  Any insight into what the fft is doing here?  Thanks!

-Phelps

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Marcus D. Leech <address@hidden> wrote:

On 28/09/2011 4:50 PM, Phelps Williams wrote:

I have a usrp and computer in a remote location without much network bandwidth available to the system and I'm using it as a spectrum analyzer.  I'd like to run the fft on the remote system and then send the results to a connected client for display.  This would allow me to get greater fidelity than xwindows forwarding or the ascii dft example while also using less bandwidth.  I would imagine the client side would potentially reuse some of the existing wx or qt interfaces for display and control.

This seems like a pretty useful / simple use of this hardware.  Does anybody know of any implementations floating around that does this?  I'd prefer not to reinvent the wheel.

-Phelps

Because I'm such an insanely nice guy, I quickly implemented something like what you'd need.  Attached.

It uses a UHD source, computes a (default 2048-point) 10*log10-scaled FFT, then outputs the resulting float-vector to a file-sink at a 5Hz rate.

Everything is pretty-much parameterized on the command line, including:

    frequency         (100M)
    gain                   (20)
    srate                 (1.0e6)
    fifoname          ("fft_output_fifo")
    devicecfg         ("addr=192.168.10.2")
    xmlport            (6060)

I've included the ability to change parameters on-the-fly using the XMLRPC server, which would allow you to, for example, change
 run-time parameters from some external interface, such as a WEB gui or similar.

If this were my problem, I'd start this thing in a script which creates the fifo file, starts some program that reads the FIFO (left as an
 exercise for the proverbial reader) in the background, then calls the Gnu Radio program.




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