#!/usr/bin/env python # # Demodulator Performance Testing # Really simple testing of how the demodulators cope with added white noise. # # Copy in the relevant demod binaries to this directory. # Run with: python snr_test.py -f test_file.bin -d RS92 # # The input test file should be the FM demodulated signal, with the sox post-processing. # For example: # RS92: rtl_fm -p 0 -M fm -F9 -s 12k -f 400500000 | sox -t raw -r 12k -e s -b 16 -c 1 - -r 48000 -b 8 -t wav - highpass 20 lowpass 2500 2>/dev/null > test_file.bin # RS41: rtl_fm -p 0 -M fm -F9 -s 15k -f 405500000 | sox -t raw -r 15k -e s -b 16 -c 1 - -r 48000 -b 8 -t wav - lowpass 2600 2>/dev/null > test_file.bin # # I'm unsure how comparable the RS92 and RS41 results are. Take the results with a healthy lump of salt. # At the very least, this should be useful to compare performance of different demod revisions. # import sys import os import numpy as np import argparse import subprocess # Demodulator calls. Replace as appropriate. RS92_DEMOD = "./rs92ecc --crc --ecc --vel" RS41_DEMOD = "./rs41ecc --crc --ecc --ptu" # Noise level range (gaussian distribution, standard deviation referred to full scale), in dB. # Both demods seem to fall over by -15 dB of added noise. NOISE_LEVELS = np.arange(-30.0, -15, 1.0) TEMP_FILENAME = 'temp.bin' def read_file(filename): ''' Read in file and convert to floating point ''' data = np.fromfile(filename,dtype='u1') header = data[:44] # This is a bit of a hack. The RS demods want a wave header, so we store this for later writeout. data = (data[44:].astype('float') - 128.0) / 128.0 return (data,header) def write_file(filename, data, header): ''' Convert an array of floats to uint8 and write to a file ''' data = (data*128.0)+128.0 data = data.astype('u1') f = open(filename,'wb') f.write(header.tobytes()) f.write(data.tobytes()) f.close() def add_noise(data, noise_level): ''' Add white noise to a file ''' noise_level_linear = 10**(noise_level/20.0) noise = np.random.normal(scale=noise_level_linear, size=data.shape) return data + noise def run_demod(filename, demod='RS92'): if demod == 'RS92': demod_bin = RS92_DEMOD else: demod_bin = RS41_DEMOD demod_command = "cat %s | %s" % (filename, demod_bin) # Run demod. with open(os.devnull, 'w') as devnull: output = subprocess.check_output(demod_command, shell=True, stderr=devnull) if demod == 'RS92': # RS92 demod just gives us one line per frame. return len(output.split('\n')) else: # RS41 demod gives us a lot more... frames = 0 for _line in output.split('\n'): if _line != '': if _line[0] == '[': frames += 1 return frames if __name__ == '__main__': # Command line arguments. parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument("-f", "--filename", type=str, help="Input file. Assumed to be unsigned 8-bit, 48 kHz file.") parser.add_argument("-d", "--demod", type=str, help="Demodulator to test, either RS92 or RS41.") args = parser.parse_args() print("Reading: %s" % args.filename) # Read in input file. (data,header) = read_file(args.filename) print("Samples: %d" % len(data)) for noise_lvl in NOISE_LEVELS: temp_data = add_noise(data, noise_lvl) write_file(TEMP_FILENAME, temp_data, header) frame_count = run_demod(TEMP_FILENAME, args.demod) print("%f dB: Frames Recovered: %d" % (noise_lvl,frame_count))