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From: | Richard Bell |
Subject: | Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Requesting help with HPD block |
Date: | Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:20:38 -0700 |
On 17.03.2015 14:46, Richard Bell wrote:
Each byte going into the HPD is an unpacked byte. There is only 1 bit
represented per byte. Receiving the full payload of 1024 bits requires
1024 bytes of input. What does this imply for the HPD parameters?
By setting it up with
header_length = 1 (symbol)
items per symbol = 32 (the header length)
Try this:
Make the header_length 4 and items per symbol 8. Then, the message from the parser will match the number of items.
"Items per symbol" is something that would be mainly useful for non-atomic modulations, such as OFDM. It might do the trick here, too.
M
It produces the correct number of samples at the header output. Is it
possible for this to be working if the parameters were not set
correctly? I'm so confused.
Yes I've spit the messages out with a message debug port. The packet
length it reads is 128.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Martin Braun <address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
On 17.03.2015 14:14, Richard Bell wrote:
Martin,
Thanks for your detailed response. I need some clarification on
a few
points. I also need to clarify something.
I am using the HPD on demodulated detected data. There are no
floats at
this point. Everything is binary. The data type of all blocks is
byte.
My bad,
my mind colour-mapped the type wrongly to floats.
I am adding artificial zeros in myself, after I form the packets, to
simulate a burst transmission. I send a packet, dead time (0's),
I send
another packet, so on. That is the source of the zeros coming
out of the
payload port.
OK, with that in mind, if my packet is setup accordingly:
packet_structure: [32 bit header | 128 byte = 1024 bit payload]
what are you calling an item here?
'Item' is GNU Radio nomenclature here. In your case, one item is one
byte from the input buffer.
Question is, how many bits are in one byte in your input buffer? Is
your 1024 bit payload really 128 bytes long on the input buffer?
Also, have you used the message debug block to see what your parser
returns?
M
I am looking for the unit tests your mentioned. I was not aware
of them.
v/r,
Rich
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Martin Braun
<address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>___________________________________________________
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On 17.03.2015 11:48, Richard Bell wrote:
[...]
My issue might stem from a misunderstanding of the HPD
parameters. This
block seems to have been written for OFDM, but I'm
using it for
single
carrier QPSK. If someone wouldn't mind looking over my
parameters with
singe carrier in mind to confirm I've set it up
correct, I would be
grateful. My header is 32 bits long and the payload is
160 bytes
or 1280
bits long. The documentation for this block is not very
clear on
how the
parameters relate to the system.
Richard,
the block has some added features to handle OFDM, but it wasn't
written specifically for it. If you haven't read the unit
tests for
this code, you should definitely go there for some input.
(The reason OFDM was considered as a special case is
because this
makes a CP remover block unnecessary, but that's another
story).
The output of the header port is perfect. It is the
exactly what I
expect. I'm showing 3 headers worth of samples in the
sink plot,
and we
see exactly 3 headers with tags on the first sample of each
header. In
the payload length portion of the header, the value 160
exists
for the
payload length. My second question is, when generating the
header using
packet_header_default, is the payload represented in
bytes or bits?
Whatever your payload parser generates should be the number of
*items* read through the HPD. What are bits, bytes? The HPD
doesn't
know any of this. It can only relate to the item size
you've given it.
Now if you look at the payload out sink plot, you will
see payloads
separated by zeros. Each payload portion (the non-zero
portion)
is the
exact length as my payload should be, 160 bytes or 1280
bits.
But you
can see zeros are allowed through after the 1280th bit
and a second
payload shows up without a tag. This leads me to
believe the HPD
block
is interpreting the payload length to be 4 times larger
then I
intend it
to be. What parameters am I mixing up to create this?
Yeah, I can see how that's happening. Your payload is being
(probably correctly) interpreted as 160 bytes, then the HPD
is given
the number 160 as a payload length. However, the HPD needs
to know
the number of *items* per payload. 4 == sizeof(float),
which you are
using.
The reason the OFDM code has no issues here is because it
uses its
own packet header parser, which returns the number of OFDM
symbols.
That really was the intention of the packet header parser
architecture.
Now, how come the packet header parser is reporting 160? Is
that
actually correct? It seems that if your payload is 40
floats, 160
bytes seems a lot. You'd be storing 4 bytes per float, when
typically, you have 1 or 2 bits.
However, as a quick hack, edit the packet_header_default to
add a
scaling factor (or just divide by 4 before sending the
packet). That
should fix it temporarily. A more long-term solution would
be to add
a scaling factor to the packet_header_default for these
cases --
maybe you want to write and upstream this?
I've played with the ofdm_tx/rx.grc example and
confirmed that
it will
keep the zeros from showing up at the payload out port.
This
confirms my
misuse of the block. The hard part is porting the OFDM
example
parameters to a single carrier use. Am I correct in setting
symbol to 1
since there are no OFDM symbols?
Here's what should work:
header length: Whatever you have now
items per symbol:
gi: 0
output format: items
Now make sure the header_parser tells the HPD the number of
floats
it needs to consume per payload.
The value reported by the payload is the same unit as the
header length.
M
PS: The reason you see zeros between packets is because the
ringbuffers get initialized with zeros to start with.
Eventually,
you might see residue from other packets.
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