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 includes ARM Cortex A8 and A15 powered device such as Beagle
Board, Gumstix driven E100 USRP, and Arndale board. Set the reduced
SPS value automatically for the user.
For x86, if we don't support SSE3, then the architecture is
probably ancient and not with using. Drop the sampling down anyways
to at least make an attempt. Non floating point SIMD devices (e.g.
Raspberry Pi) also fall in this category
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>
Enabling the external reference on UHD devices through the configure
time switch is awkward. Use a database variable "TRX.Reference" with
'0' or '1' value for internal and external references respectively.
Use internal reference is no entry is defined.
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>
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>
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>
There is no temporal dependency on when the RACH sequence is generated,
so there is no need for transceiver to create it in response to a
command from GSM core. If we power on the transceiver, we will need
the RACH sequence, so just allocate it during initialization.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
The configuration table is instantiated as a global variable with
no means to check constructor status. This means various types
of database failure conditions (e.g. file existence, permissions,
etc.) are not reported. This patch performs a small number of
checks to make sure that the configuration is sane.
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>
The transceiver only uses a single integer oversampling value,
which is more simply referred to as samples-per-symbol.
mRadioOversampling --> mSPS
mTransceiverOversampling (removed)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Previously, two timing correction values were used for UHD devices
depending on the sample rate of 270.833e3 or 400e3 for native GSM or
resampled device rate respectively. The correction values compensate
for residual timing effects due to analog component delays, filters
lag times, and general fudge factors. These values are device
specific and over-generalized by the two value configuration.
This patch adds the following struct to store these correction
values by device type and sample rate - through samples-per-symbol.
struct uhd_dev_offset {
enum uhd_dev_type type;
int sps;
double offset;
};
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Without this patch, if SAMPSPERSYM is set bigger than 1, then
erratic behaviour will occur.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
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UHD accepts optional 'args' that can be used for device descriptions
such as IP address, device type, etc. Allow these to be passed in on
the transceiver command line as the third argument (number of supported
carriers is the second argument). This option benefits those who may
have multiple UHD devices attached to a single system.
This option is not yet supported by GSM core and requires starting the
transceiver independently on the command line. This option has no
effect when USRP1 is used.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
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Device errors regarding properties such as sample
rate or frequency tuning are almost always fatal and
lead to the common error "assuming TRX is dead".
Make sure that these errors are clearly presented to
the user.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <ttsou@vt.edu>
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For network based devices (USRP2, N200, etc.), increase the
latency from 2 to 3 frames, which effectively buffers more
samples on the host in front of the Ethernet interface.
USB devices (USRP1 and B100) utilize an adaptive mechanism
so they are less effected by this value.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <ttsou@vt.edu>
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The low-level RadioDevice interface is agnostic to libusrp
or uhd based devices. 'make' allocates and returns a
pointer to a generic RadioDevice implemented for whatever
class of device determined at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <ttsou@vt.edu>
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Thomas Tsou