Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] I&Q on same or separate channels?

[Uwe Bonnes]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Blossom <address@hidden> writes:

    Eric> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:35:51PM -0500, George Nychis wrote:
...
    Eric> I and Q are not on separate channels.  They are interleaved, I0,
    Eric> Q0, I1, Q1...

This leads again to my question some time ago about how the USB data stream
is organized. With the partial answer from that thread my understanding
boils down to the following:
- The FX2 has blocks/fifos of 512 bytes
- We can put a data stream of interleaved sample in the fifo, but the data
must form blocks of 512 bytes
- If the fifo is full for some reason, the FX2 will block on a 512 byte boundary
- If the FPGA detects a FIFO stall, the FPGA must restart with DATA0 of the
datablock 

- On the PC side, the kernel always always receives 512 byte blocks
- If the user process always reads 512 blocks we never get out of sync

However the last postulate gives me some headache. How do we make sure that
the user process always fetches 512 byte blocks. Can a crashing user process
manage to read less then 512 bytes? What if a rogue process reads less then
512 bytes. If the user process gets out of sync with the 512 bytes for some
reason, is there any way to resynchronize?

Uwe
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