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GSoC Standalone GRC: week-1

Hello, So moving ahead, week 1 really marks the beginning of my coding period, and I am happy to share the progress we have made so far since the last post, so here are a few of my notes on the project. recording dependencies : After separating GRC from gnuradio with the commit history of the folder still intact, I got to recording all the instances of imports from gnuradio in GRC.

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GSoC 2023 Qt Widgets Improvement Week-0 [Communuity Bonding]

Hello everyone! I am Rohit Bisht, a computer engineering student from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. I am thrilled to be a part of the Google Summer of Code program and work on the GNU Radio project. Over the next few months, I will be focusing on improving the gr-qtgui component by adding new widgets and enhancing the existing ones.

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GSoC Standalone GRC: week-0

Hello, I am Rahul Balaji, a new contributor to GNU Radio. I have been selected to undertake this project as a Google Summer of Code. so what’s the project about ? Over time, we have come to realise that GRC has some use-cases outside GNU Radio, and that it has somewhat become it’s own standalone application.

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PMTs are dead...Long live PMTs

A few years back I was working on a pair of gnuradio blocks. The first one would produce a “report” that we stored in a pmt dictionary. The second block would read in the “report” and do some processing based on the contents. I’m a big fan of data validation, so I wanted to ensure that the received pmt had the exact structure that we were expecting.

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VOLK v3.0.0 major release

Originally published on libvolk.org Hi everyone! This is the VOLK v3.0.0 major release! This release marks the conclusion of a long lasting effort to complete GREP 23 that proposes to change the VOLK license to LGPLv3+. We would like to thank all VOLK contributors that they allowed this re-licensing effort to complete.

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Further Evolving GNU Radio 4.0

tl;dr - There is a proposal on the table to further modernize the 4.0 codebase which can potentially bring some big performance benefits but may also carry some significant changes to the underlying implementation With new constructs, abstractions, and a streamlined workflow, GNU Radio 4.0 as it currently stands has made significant progress toward it original stated goal:

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GNU Radio 3.10.2.0

Release 3.10.2.0 [3.10.2.0] - 2022-04-09 Changed Project Scope Clayton Smith continues the effort to replace Boost usage with modern C++ equivalents. In a related effort, he has continued the logging modernization started by Marcus Müller. In his spare time, he has tackled some tricky, intermittent CI failures, some of which turned out to be real bugs.

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GNU Radio 3.9.6.0

Release 3.9.6.0 [3.9.6.0] - 2022-04-09 Changed Project Scope PEP8 formatting applied and enforced on all Python files. GRC New JSON Config and YAML Config blocks that load configuration variables from files at runtime. Those variables may then be used in block parameters. Store the GNU Radio version in flowgraph metadata when saving.

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