This commit adds a hierarchical block that performs Doppler
compensation and resampling.
Rather than using directly the available Doppler correction blocks,
based on the user parameters of the incoming sampling rate and the
desired target sampling rate, it applies proper decimation on the signal
so the frequency shift to be applied to a smaller sampling rate,
reducing significantly the CPU resources required. At the previous
architecture (gr-satnogs 1.x.x) we used seperate blocks for the doppler
correction and the LO digital shift, operating at the device sampling rate.
These two blocks, performing almost the same operation, contributed to a
30% CPU usage of the overall application. Now the LO is compensated by
the Doppler correction block, taking into account at the same time the
Doppler drift.
After the digital LO shift, the Doppler corrected signal is passed through
an Polyphase Arbitrary Resampler, to match exactly the sampling rate
requested by the user.
The decoders produce a PMT message containing several information about
the decoded frame. While this is very convenient for handling data
inside the flowgraph, it is not for third party applications. The JSON
converter block is responsible to serialize all the information
contained in a PMT originating from a decoded frame.
For simple demonstration some metadata were added on the AX.25 decoder.
These metadata are still a WIP and they subjected to changes.
Some distros do not contain the GrVersion.cmake module so the git
version can be applied into the gr-satnogs version reporting script.
This commits adds this module into the project, so the build system can
use it during project configuration.
The CMake build system will first try to locate libfec in the system. if
it is not available, it will start building the libfec that is part of
the gr-satnogs source code. During the installation libfec is installed
in the system, thus future builds will make use of it and will not
rebuild from source.
Manolis Surligas
Sebastian
Manos Surligas