Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 8 bit samples have an odd spectrum

2008-07-11 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Matt Ettus wrote: Look at the samples in the scope sink. Do you see a pattern of A A B B C C D D, meaning instead of unique samples, is every one repeated? If so, it means that the halfband decimator is probably not being bypassed properly. Here are the first 100 8 bit samples from the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 8 bit samples have an odd spectrum

2008-07-11 Thread Dan Halperin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 11, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Matt Ettus wrote: Remember that while the ADCs are 12 bits, we carry 16+ bits of precision throughout the signal processing. How do you get 16 bits of precision from a 12 bit ADC? What does

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 8 bit samples have an odd spectrum

2008-07-11 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Matt Ettus wrote: Remember that while the ADCs are 12 bits, we carry 16+ bits of precision throughout the signal processing. Matt, How do you get 16 bits of precision from a 12 bit ADC? What does 16+ mean? I'm looking at the shorts coming from the USRP and I'm seeing values in the range

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 8 bit samples have an odd spectrum

2008-07-11 Thread Matt Ettus
Chris Stankevitz wrote: Johnathan Corgan wrote: You *may* be seeing an artifact of the truncation of the ADC samples. Johnathan, others: I believe this is not the case. When I download 16 bit samples from the USRP and remove the 4LSBs myself, the spectrum looks normal. When I ask the US

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 8 bit samples have an odd spectrum

2008-07-11 Thread Matt Ettus
Chris Stankevitz wrote: Johnathan Corgan wrote: You *may* be seeing an artifact of the truncation of the ADC samples. Johnathan, others: I believe this is not the case. When I download 16 bit samples from the USRP and remove the 4LSBs myself, the spectrum looks normal. When I ask the US

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 8 bit samples have an odd spectrum

2008-07-11 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Johnathan Corgan wrote: You *may* be seeing an artifact of the truncation of the ADC samples. Johnathan, others: I believe this is not the case. When I download 16 bit samples from the USRP and remove the 4LSBs myself, the spectrum looks normal. When I ask the USRP for 8 bit samples, the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 8 bit samples have an odd spectrum

2008-07-11 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Johnathan Corgan wrote: You *may* be seeing an artifact of the truncation of the ADC samples. Johnathan: Thank you, that's exactly what it looks like. Adding USRP pga gain didn't help though. I'll get back to the group... Chris ___ Discuss-gnu

[Discuss-gnuradio] sample and hold

2008-07-11 Thread Pepito31 Pepito31
Hello, I would like to construct a sample and hold function with : src_data=(0,)*4095,1 delay2=gr.vector_source_b(src_data,True) sample_and_hold = gr.sample_and_hold_ff() I would like that that sample and hold had a duration of 4096 cycles (4095 "0" followed by a "1"). But constructing my v

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with Fm receiver code when implemented with cygwin.

2008-07-11 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:22 PM, call5_99 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thank you. I didn't realize that the boards are not capable of receiving > the waves. Other than that were you able to figure out what rest of the > error messages meant. Because the error messages seem to suggest, that ther