Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP w/ 4-bit IQ samples

2008-04-09 Thread Tyrel Newton
Paul, Would you mind sharing your implementation along with any accompanying documentation? We are making some modifications to the FPGA firmware ourselves (mods for a much more application specific usage) and while I'm not sure how far we'll get with needing the 4-bit samples, we'd

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP w/ 4-bit IQ samples

2008-04-09 Thread Paul Creekmore
We'll be looking into the possibility of contributing the new FPGA configuration to GNU Radio once our code has been tested and refined. --Paul Tyrel Newton wrote: Paul, Would you mind sharing your implementation along with any accompanying documentation? We are making some modifications

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP w/ 4-bit IQ samples

2008-04-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:36:48PM -0400, Paul Creekmore wrote: We'll be looking into the possibility of contributing the new FPGA configuration to GNU Radio once our code has been tested and refined. --Paul Thanks! Eric ___ Discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP w/ 4-bit IQ samples

2008-04-09 Thread Nagaraj C Shivaramaiah
Hi Paul and Tyrel, I'm also in a similar situation to get the maximum bandwidth possible, but just started... For me 2 bit quantization is sufficient I've started modifying the FPGA firmware but I think it will take some time before I implement and test it thoroughly.. Any approximate time

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP w/ 4-bit IQ samples

2008-04-09 Thread Paul Creekmore
Well, I'm hoping to have 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16-bit quantization options tested and working by the end of the month, if not within the next two weeks. We're debugging an implementation right now. But for full integration into GNU Radio, there are several other considerations that my group has

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP w/ 4-bit IQ samples

2008-04-08 Thread Paul Creekmore
Tyrel, The current FPGA configuration does not support 4-bit samples, but it is possible to modify the configuration (Verilog code) to convert the samples to 4-bit. My research group is currently working on adding 1, 2, and 4-bit quantization options to the USRP, as well as accompanying

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP w/ 4-bit IQ samples

2008-04-08 Thread Firas Abbas
Hi, If the I,Q bit width output of the DDC is reduced from 16 bit to 12 bit, then I Q will occupy 24 bit (3 Bytes). Thus we will be able to maximize the instantaneous bandwidth to 32MB/3 = 10.6MHz without scarifying much because the original signal was digitized with 12 bit ADC. Regards,

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP w/ 4-bit IQ samples

2008-04-07 Thread Tyrel Newton
We have an application where the overall accuracy of the A/D converter is not terribly important but where we need as high a sampling rate as we can get. To this end, we found and intend to use the 8-bit option that allows for 8-bit I and Q signals instead of the normal 16-bit. However, is