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/*! \page page_uhd UHD Interface

\section Introduction
This is the GNU Radio UHD package. It is the interface to the UHD
library to connect to and send and receive data between the Ettus
Research, LLC product line. To use the UHD blocks, the Python
namespaces is in gnuradio.uhd, which would be normally imported
as:

\code
    from gnuradio import uhd
\endcode

The relevant blocks are listed in the \ref uhd_blk group.

A quick listing of the details can be found in Python after importing
by using:

\code
    help(uhd)
\endcode


\section uhd_external_docs External Documentation

Ettus Research maintains the comprehensive documentation to the underlying UHD driver, which can be found at:

http://files.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/

The UHD Doxygen page is located at:

http://files.ettus.com/uhd_docs/doxygen/html/index.html


\section uhd_command_syntax Command Syntax

The UHD sink and source can be controlled by a message port. These message ports
take commands, which are PMTs formatted as such:

    (command, value, [channel])

A command PMT is either a pair or a tuple. If it's a tuple, it must have either 2 or 3 elements.
Any other type of PMT will throw an error.

The `command` part is a string, which defines the command. `value` is a PMT whose format depends
on the command issued. Finally, `channel` is an integer PMT value that specifies which channel
this command shall be specified on. If this value is omitted, then it either applies this command
to all channels or channel zero, depending on which command is used.

Example:
\code{.cpp}
pmt::pmt_t command = pmt::cons( // We make a pair, but pmt::make_tuple() is also valid!
    pmt::mp("freq"), // Use the 'freq' command, which sets the frequency
    pmt::mp(1.1e9) // Set the frequency to 1.1 GHz
);
\endcode

This PMT would set the frequency to 1.1 GHz on all channels. We make use of the pmt::mp() function
which automatically sets the PMT types. Assume we only want to set the frequency on channel 1
(i.e. the second channel). In this case, we must construct a tuple:
\code{.cpp}
pmt::pmt_t command = pmt::make_tuple(
    pmt::mp("freq"), // Use the 'freq' command, which sets the frequency
    pmt::mp(1.1e9) // Set the frequency to 1.1 GHz
    pmt::mp(1) // Select channel 1
);
\endcode


\subsection uhd_command_syntax_cmds Common commands

The following commands are understood by both UHD Source and Sink:

Command name | Value Type | Description
-------------|------------|-------------------------------------------------------------
`freq`       | double     | Sets the Tx or Rx frequency. Defaults to all channels.
`lo_offset`  | double     | Sets an LO offset. Defaults to all channels.
`gain`       | double     | Sets the Tx or Rx gain (in dB). Defaults to all channels.


\section Configuring a UHD object

A typical option parser setup for a UHD device looks like

\code
    parser = OptionParser(option_class=eng_option)
    parser.add_option("-a", "--args", type="string", default="",
                      help="UHD device address args , [default=%default]")
    parser.add_option("", "--spec", type="string", default=None,
                      help="Subdevice of UHD device where appropriate")
    parser.add_option("-A", "--antenna", type="string", default=None,
                      help="select Rx Antenna where appropriate")
    parser.add_option("-s", "--samp-rate", type="eng_float", default=1e6,
                      help="set sample rate (bandwidth) [default=%default]")
    parser.add_option("-f", "--freq", type="eng_float", default=None,
                      help="set frequency to FREQ", metavar="FREQ")
    parser.add_option("-g", "--gain", type="eng_float", default=None,
                      help="set gain in dB (default is midpoint)")
\endcode

To use these options to create a UHD source object:

\code
    self.u = uhd.usrp_source(device_addr=options.args,
                             io_type=uhd.io_type.COMPLEX_FLOAT32,
                             num_channels=1)

    self.u.set_samp_rate(options.samp_rate)

    # if no gain was specified, use the mid-point in dB
    if options.gain is None:
        g = self.u.get_gain_range()
        options.gain = float(g.start()+g.stop())/2
    self.u.set_gain(options.gain, 0)

    # Set the center frequency
    self.u.set_center_freq(options.freq, 0)

    # Set the subdevice spec
    if(options.spec):
        self.u.set_subdev_spec(options.spec, 0)

     # Set the antenna
     if(options.antenna):
        self.u.set_antenna(options.antenna, 0)
\endcode

Frequently, your application may need a sample rate that is not
supported by the UHD device. If you have extra CPU power to spare, you
can easily set the sample rate you want, then ask the device what the
actual sample rate set was. Then, you can easily create an arbitrary
resampler to take care of the difference.

\code
    self.u.set_samp_rate(options.samp_rate)

    desired_rate = options.samp_rate
    actual_rate = self.u.get_samp_rate()
    resample = desired_rate / actual_rate

    # Use the filter.pfb version and pass only the resample factor.
    # This block builds a half-band filter for you

    self.resampler = filter.pfb.arb_resampler_ccf(resample)
\endcode

*/
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