QT GUI Bercurve Sink

The Bercurve Sink block creates a plot of Bit Error Rate versus Signal to Noise ratio (ES/No). The block calculates the BER itself internally by comparing the original data (pre-distortion) from input i with the post-distortion, post-decoding data on input i+1. So (input_items[i] XOR input_items[i+1]) is the BER to plot for that particular Es/No point. Each curve is made with 8 data points, thus requiring 16 input ports.

The Bercurve Sink can operate in two modes:

• Separate input ports
• Bus input ports

Separate input ports

Using gnuradio-companion (GRC), the default configuration of a new Bercurve Sink is with 16 separate input ports per curve. The ports are paired: (0, 1), (2, 3), ... (14,15). Each input pair produces one point on the corresponding curve.

Bus input ports

Instead of having so many separate input ports (16 times the number of curves), the sink can operate in the "Bus" mode, where all the data for one curve is grouped into one "bus". To activate this mode, right click on the Bercurve Sink block, select "More", then select "Toggle Sink Bus". This mode matches the output of a "BER Curve Gen." block. See the example flowgraph below.

Parameters

esno

Vector of SNR (ES/No) values to plot for. Typical value is numpy.arange (0, 8, .5)

Min. BER Errs.

BER Limit

Num Curves

Number of curves to draw on the same graph

Curve Names

Y min

Y max

Update Period

GUI Hint

See GUI Hint for info about how to organize multiple QT GUIs

Line X Label

Line X Width

Line X Color

Line X Style

Line X Marker

Line X Alpha

Example Flowgraph

This flowgraph is derived from https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/blob/master/gr-fec/examples/ber_curve_gen.grc

Source Files

C++ files

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Header files

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Public header files

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Block definition

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