Hi Marcus,

You pointed out important notes. The first one is that there is two
possible solution for implementing such wideband system:

1- Bringing the whole bandwidth to the baseband.
2- Using timed command for tuning to the desired center frequency.

The second point is that the instantaneous bandwidth of the system, or
better to say, the bandwidth of the modulated signal is a few portion of
the whole bandwidth, so the first scheme isn't appropriate in the sense of
wideband digitalization.

However, there is another point needed to be noticed and that's the LO
(local oscillator) capability of the daughterboard. I mean, does have the
X-series enough ppm (lower than 3 ppm)? The LO also shall have suitable
switching time too.

Best,
Mostafa



On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Marcus Müller <marcus.muel...@ettus.com>
wrote:

>  The architecture itself can basically deal at arbitrary sample
> boundaries; however, as soon as you tune a physical thing like an LO, you
> need some time, especially since the LOs generated on USRP daughterboards
> discipline the LOs to the high-quality reference clock using PLLs.
> Depending on the frequency, the frequency delta, the daughterboard,
> environmental situations as well as individual component variances, the
> time from tune to stable oscillator changes; these times are in the order
> of multiple milliseconds, in most cases.
>
> You could avoid analog tuning by only doing frequency shifting in the DSP
> on the N210's FPGA; however, the N210-compatible daughterboards have a
> bandwidth of 40MHz, so this is not possible for Bluetooth (which is spread
> over 80MHz).
>
> With the X3x0, you can use 120MHz daughterboards, which would enable you
> to do purely digital tuning.
>
> I am, however, not familiar enough with the Bluetooth PHY to assess
> whether there are latency constraints that prohibit control by a PC -- if
> the hop sequence is known sufficiently before transmission starts, one
> could try to generate timed commands that tune the DSP on specific samples.
> However, that might get a bit ugly, because the on-device command queue has
> a limited length, so you might need to send timed commands at high rates.
>
> Alternatively, the 80 MHz bandwidth comfortably fits into the sampling
> rate you can get in and out of the X3x0 via 10GigEthernet -- but then, your
> PC will be burdened with the task of continously generating more than
> 80MS/s -- for 2 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth.
>
> Best regards,
> Marcus
>
>
>
> On 01/13/2015 02:44 PM, Mostafa Alizadeh wrote:
>
> Yeah I have had a look at Bluetooth PHY. The hop rate of Bluetooth in
> paging substate increases as 3200 hop/sec too. So you mean the N210 USRP
> can't support 1600 (or 3200) hop/sec?
> What do you mean by "latency"? Is that the latency of the USB or Ethernet?
> Jeff, please clarify your stance. Why the latency problem doesn't matter
> X-series USRP?
>
> Best,
> Mostafa
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Jeff Long <willco...@gmail.com> 
> <willco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  On 01/12/2015 01:07 PM, Mostafa Alizadeh wrote:
>
>
>  Hi Jeff,
>
> What is your reason for saying: "Latency and tuning" of the N210 device
> isn't appropriate???
>
>
>  I should have said that, with either USB or Ethernet, and with a
> non-real-time O/S, the latency to too great. Hop rate is generally 1600
> hops/sec. Take a look at the Bluetooth physical layer spec for more info.
>
>
>
>  Best,
> Mostafa
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Jeff Long 
> <willco...@gmail.com<mailto:willco...@gmail.com> <willco...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 01/10/2015 02:46 PM, vaibhav kulkarni wrote:
>
>         Hi All,
>
>         I am searching for an implementation of a complete Bluetooth
>         stack on
>         GRC 3.7 ( Including the Bluetooth Transmitter and Receiver)
>         preferably
>         working with USRP N210. So far I got this "gr-Bluetooth,
>         Bluetooth for
>
>
>     You could build one in the FPGA of an X-series box. Latency and
>     tuning requirements exceed what you can do with a N210.
>
>         GNU Radio" (http://gr-bluetooth.__sourceforge.net/
>         <http://gr-bluetooth.sourceforge.net/> 
> <http://gr-bluetooth.sourceforge.net/>), However it is not a
>         complete stack and I guess it doesent include the Bluetooth
>         Transmitter.
>         I built it and checked but couldn't find one. Can you suggest any
>         existing implementation of complete Bluetooth stack ?
>         Any Help is appreciated.
>
>         Regards,
>         Vaibhav
>
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