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?
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>> wrote:
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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