Using an oscilloscope as Software Defined Radio source for GNU Radio 3.8
Assumes the availability of RPC for communication over VXI11 with an oscilloscope, provided
by apt-get install libtirpc-dev on Debian/GNU Linux.
Tested on Rohde & Schwarz RTO2034 and RTE1054, will most probably work on any RT series
oscilloscopes. Originally developed for the Agilent 54855DSO [1] but not tested after
adding support for R&S instruments. Select which brand is used with the #define flags
in the lib/ directory source code (#define rohdeschwarz is exclusive with #define agilent).
For those wanting to test gr-oscilloscope with no hardware access, a TCP server generating
dummy data (sine waves) is available in examples. Compile manually (gcc -o tcp_server tcp_server.c -lm) and execute (./examples/tcp_server) to connect the server to port 9999 of
the localhost. TCP/IP dummy data communication is activated by selecting as IP address
of the gr-oscilloscope "oscilloscope" block 127.0.0.1.
Dummy TCP signal source to check the block is operational:
Noise measurement for Time Delay measurement by correlating the channels:
[1] Weike Feng, Jean-Michel Friedt, Grigory Cherniak, and Motoyuki Sato, Passive bistatic radar using digital video broadcasting–terrestrial receivers as general-purpose software-defined radio receivers, Review of Scientific Instruments 89, 104701 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5048132 available at http://jmfriedt.free.fr/dvbt_hardware.pdf