produces a significant reduction in memory usage, especially for tuners
like the airspy and hackrf that produce 10/20 MSPS sample rates. This
is observed to be around 66% reduction in peak memory usage and provides
a more stable memory utilization across time reducing stress on the
garbage collector.
Use of these reusable memory buffers will be pushed further down into
the processing chain modules to ensure we keep new object creation
to the lowest levels possible.
TestTuner and TestTunerController implementations. This implementation
only has support for channels that are completely centered within a
channelizer output. Two output slice stitching to form a composite
channel will be implemented next.
Initial profiling indicates that the FFT function within the polyphase
channelizer is now the dominant processing workload - 28% cpu loading
when channelizing a 10 MHz sample rate input into 800 channels running
at 25.0 kHz each. This is ideal for offloading to an OpenCL kernel and
running on a GPU.
messages and events can be accurately timestamped, and more importantly,
allocated traffic channels can request to be pre-loaded with buffered
samples to ensure that traffic channels don't miss any samples that
are currently missed due processing latency inherent in current buffer
sizing. This should reduce the clipping of starting messages or voice
on the traffic channels.
Restructures processing path for tuner frequency and sample rate change
events. The tuner now embeds these events in the sequence of buffers
that are generated immediately after the event occurs since those are
the buffers that will be impacted by the change. Previously, the change
event would be broadcast throughout the system and would impact any
buffered/cached buffers. This also reduces the number of source event
change listeners that have to be managed. Note: this change is not yet
implemented in all tuners ... only in the TestTuner implementation.
Updates the polyphase channelizer to now buffer channel results and then
dispatch the buffer to the channel output processors to improve efficiency
of using float arrays versus single value complex float processing.
center frequency each time we allocate a new DDC/channel. Adds
support for broadcasting channel count change source events so that the
tuner can accurately convey sourced channel counts via tuner events.
Completes changeover of polyphase channel manager to support arbitrary
bandwidth channels. The new approach provides greater compatibility
across any tuner sample rates. Likewise, all decoders will have to be
updated to adapt to any channel sample rate, although channel bandwidths
will be at least 12.5 kHz and likely no more than 25.0 kHz, with a 2x
oversampling that produces channel sample rates in range 25.0 - 50.0
kHz.
