Two buffers, inner and outer, are used in the transceiver
implementation. The outer buffer interfaces with the device receive
interface to guarantee timestamp aligned and contiguously allocated
sample buffers. The inner buffer absorbs vector size differences between
GSM bursts (156 or 157 samples) and the resampler interface (typically
fixed multiples of 65).
Reimplement the inner buffer with a ring buffer that allows fixed size
segments on the outer (resampler) portion and variable lengths (GSM
side) on the inner side. Compared to the previous stack-like version,
this implementation removes unnecessary copying of buffer contents.
Signed-off-by: Tom Tsou <tom.tsou@ettus.com>
This patch add support for dual channel diversity on the receive
path. This allows two antennas two shared antennas to be used for
each ARFCN handling channel in the receiver. This configuration
may improvde performance in multi-path fading environments,
however, noise andpotential interference levels are increased due
to the higher bandwidth used.
The receive path is oversampled by a factor of four for a rate
of 1.083333 Msps. If the receive paths are tuned within a
maximum channel spacing (currently set at 600 kHz), then both
ARFCN frequencies are processed by each channel of the receiver.
Otherwise, the frequency shifted diversity path is disabled and
standard non-diversity operation takes place.
Diversity processing is handled by selecting the path with the
higheset energy level and discarding the burst on the second
path. Selection occurs on a burst-by-burst basis.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
This patch primarily addresses devices with multiple RF front end
support. Currently device support is limited to UmTRX.
Vectorize transceiver variables to allow multiple asynchronous
threads on the upper layer with single downlink and uplink threads
driving the UHD I/O interface synchronously.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
This primarily addresses the error case at initialization.
In the event that the transceiver fails to start, we should
be able cleanly shutdown and release while providing a useful
reason for exiting.
After the radio is started and threads launched, there
are no thread state variables or shutdown messaging between
threads, and the transceiver cannot be consistently
shutdown. This issue remains to be solved.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Previous send and receive buffers at the radio interface were
arbitrarily set to a sufficient size. For normal (non-resampling)
devices, use a block (chunk) size of 625 samples. For 64 or 100
MHz resampling devices, use 4 times the reduced resampling
numerator or denominator and provide bounds checking where
appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Move B100 to the resampling interface with default
clocking. This temporarily resolves undetermined
FPGA clocking issues. This also provides extensible
support for multiple clocking rates and resampling
ratios.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
This patch applies oversampling, when selected with 4 sps,
to the downlink only, while running the receiver with
minimal sampling at 1 sps. These split sample rates allow
us to run a highly accurate downlink signal with minimal
distortion, while keeping receive path channel filtering
on the FPGA.
Without this patch, we oversample the receive path and
require a steep receive filter to get similar adjacent
channel suppression as the FPGA halfband / CIC filter
combination, which comes with a high computational cost.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
This patch only applies to resampling use at 4 samples-per-symbol.
By extention that means only USRP2 / N2xx devices are affected.
At 4 samples-per-symbol we restrict output bandwidth to roughly
roughly 700 MHz, which combined with the 2 pulse Laurent
approximation yields < 0.5 degrees of RMS phase error at the
resampler output.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Replace the polyphase filter and resampler with a separate
implementation using SSE enabled convolution. The USRP2 (including
derived devices N200, N210) are the only supported devices that
require sample rate conversion, so set the default resampling
parameters for the 100 MHz FPGA clock. This changes the previous
resampling ratios.
270.833 kHz -> 400 kHz (65 / 96)
270.833 kHz -> 390.625 kHz (52 / 75)
The new resampling factor uses a USRP resampling factor of 256
instead of 250. On the device, this allows two halfband filters to
be used rather than one. The end result is reduced distortial and
aliasing effecits from CIC filter rolloff.
B100 and USRP1 will no be supported at 400 ksps with these changes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Remove the built time resampling selection and link both options.
Move the normal push/pullBuffer() calls back to the base class and
overload them in the inherited resampling class.
USRP2/N2xx devices are the only devices that require resampling so
return that resampling is necessary on the device open(), which is
the point at which the device type will be known.
The GSM transceiver only operates at a whole number multiple of
the GSM rate and doesn't care about the actual device rate and
if resampling is used. Therefore GSM specific portion of the
transceiver should only need to submit the samples-per-symbol
value to the device interface.
Then, the device should be able to determine the appropriate
sample rate (400 ksps or 270.833 ksps) and if resampling is
appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Tom Tsou