National Instruments also has some nice RF tutorials on their web site. In particular, I found this one very helpful in understanding I/Q data:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4805 Warm regards, James S. Blachly, MD On Feb 22, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Brett L. Trotter wrote: > Is there one or two books that give a pretty comprehensive, yet low base > communications/DSP knowledge requirement that would be a guided > walkthrough of waves and fields, various forms of modulation, carriers, > filters, sidebands, etc? I'm really looking for something that's either > not a textbook, or not written like one- most textbooks are very dry and > hard to understand without someone guiding the experience and asking the > right questions. I realize the material is fairly dry, so I understand > that it's not going to be a crichton novel, but the less crazy math and > algorithm intensive it is, the better. > > Long story short, what's a good way to get a more solid grasp of how > driving a DAC can create electromagnetic waves, and what can one do with > those waves. I'd really really like to walk away understanding how > complex numbers turn into constellations are really formed as an > electromagnetic wave, etc, and the real guts of some basic things like > FM and DSSS. > > -Brett > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio