Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SNR of ADC

2017-02-28 Thread Fernando Peral
I think that since in the scenario you are describing there is all virtual there is no ADC but the round aproximation from the cos(t) function to a fixed number of bits used to represent the number with a float the computer is using, so the noise you can see in the FFT is the is indeed a quantizat

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SNR of ADC

2017-02-28 Thread Marcus Müller
There's no ADC involved! This is DSP! I can't really pinpoint it, but you have some misconception about what GNU Radio is. It's software. An ADC is a piece of hardware. That's simply the floating point quantization error, numerical stability of the FFT, the absolute value and the averaging operati

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SNR of ADC

2017-02-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 02/28/2017 08:53 AM, Sagnik Basu wrote: Hi. I just have a thought - when we use a signal source block to generate a sine wave and use the FFT block to visualize the power spectrum, then the noise floor we see at the FFT window - is it the quantization error of the ADC within the PC running

[Discuss-gnuradio] SNR of ADC

2017-02-28 Thread Sagnik Basu
Hi. I just have a thought - when we use a signal source block to generate a sine wave and use the FFT block to visualize the power spectrum, then the noise floor we see at the FFT window - is it the quantization error of the ADC within the PC running GNURadio? Regards, Sagnik Basu B. Tech | 2013