Interfacing Hardware with a C++ OOT Module

This page aims to give a rough overview about what needs to be considered developing a GNURadio OOT module, that accesses hardware as for instance a SDR.

Using gr::block Facilities

Luckily, the class gr::block provides functions, that can be used to initialize and deinitialize hardware. These member functions are virtual bool start () and virtual bool stop (). start () is generally used to initialize the hardware and is not coupled with the block construction, when the hole flowgraph is instantiated, i.e. the scheduler can take up working without having to wait for the hardware. The constructor of the block in the module is called before start () is invoked. stop () facilitates hardware deinitialization, such as turning off a transceiver, destroying a stream etc. GNURadio calls stop whenever something goes wrong, for instance when a exception is thrown in the work () function.