Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why 4 ADC's?

2007-07-19 Thread Jeff Brower
Eric- > > > The LFRX has two separate antenna inputs, supplied to Vin-A and > > > Vin-B. These are not I-Q data. USRP board FPGA logic would apply > > > one mixer or two (30 MHz or less). > > > > [...] > > > > > The RFX2400 mixes with a 2.4 GHz osc and creates one set of I-Q 65 > > > MHz range s

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why 4 ADC's?

2007-07-19 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:30:57AM -0700, Johnathan Corgan wrote: > Jeff Brower wrote: > > > The LFRX has two separate antenna inputs, supplied to Vin-A and > > Vin-B. These are not I-Q data. USRP board FPGA logic would apply > > one mixer or two (30 MHz or less). > > [...] > > > The RFX2400 m

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why 4 ADC's?

2007-07-19 Thread Jeff Brower
Johnathan- > > The LFRX has two separate antenna inputs, supplied to Vin-A and > > Vin-B. These are not I-Q data. USRP board FPGA logic would apply > > one mixer or two (30 MHz or less). > > [...] > > > The RFX2400 mixes with a 2.4 GHz osc and creates one set of I-Q 65 > > MHz range signals, +

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why 4 ADC's?

2007-07-19 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Jeff Brower wrote: > The LFRX has two separate antenna inputs, supplied to Vin-A and > Vin-B. These are not I-Q data. USRP board FPGA logic would apply > one mixer or two (30 MHz or less). [...] > The RFX2400 mixes with a 2.4 GHz osc and creates one set of I-Q 65 > MHz range signals, +/-I on V

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why 4 ADC's?

2007-07-18 Thread Jeff Brower
Roshan- > > I think the OP is confused at what "signal processing" is happening on the > > RF > > daughterboard. Although some recent posts have said "none", there actually > > is some > > -- filters to separate the I and Q signals which were summed at the point > > of original > > transmissio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why 4 ADC's?

2007-07-18 Thread Jeff Brower
Ian- > Ok, that makes sense. Looking back at this site > (http://www.nd.edu/~jnl/sdr/docs/tutorials/4.html#tth_sEc2.1) I see > that the DDC is combining the I and Q inputs to do complex > multiplication. I originally thought it was multiplying the I and Q > components separately, so that no inpu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why 4 ADC's?

2007-07-18 Thread Roshan Baliga
Jeff Brower wrote: I think the OP is confused at what "signal processing" is happening on the RF daughterboard. Although some recent posts have said "none", there actually is some -- filters to separate the I and Q signals which were summed at the point of original transmission to make a singl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why 4 ADC's?

2007-07-18 Thread Ian Larsen
Ok, that makes sense. Looking back at this site (http://www.nd.edu/~jnl/sdr/docs/tutorials/4.html#tth_sEc2.1) I see that the DDC is combining the I and Q inputs to do complex multiplication. I originally thought it was multiplying the I and Q components separately, so that no input to Q would me

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why 4 ADC's?

2007-07-18 Thread Jeff Brower
Johnathan- > > I assume this also true for the BasicRX daughterboard? (Doesn't do > > downconversion, but does do analog multiplication to get I and Q?) > > Almost. The boards don't do anything with the signal, but have separate > I and Q inputs that go to the ADCs as is. > > On the FPGA, howev

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why 4 ADC's?

2007-07-18 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Ian Larsen wrote: > I assume this also true for the BasicRX daughterboard? (Doesn't do > downconversion, but does do analog multiplication to get I and Q?) Almost. The boards don't do anything with the signal, but have separate I and Q inputs that go to the ADCs as is. On the FPGA, however, the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why 4 ADC's?

2007-07-18 Thread Roshan Baliga
The BasicRX daughterboard doesn't do anything signal processing, with the exception of passing the signal through some transformers. It has two separate I and Q inputs, which are passed down to the USRP, where all the signal processing is actually done. -Roshan Ian Larsen wrote: Thank you, t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why 4 ADC's?

2007-07-18 Thread Ian Larsen
Thank you, that's very helpful. I assume this also true for the BasicRX daughterboard? (Doesn't do downconversion, but does do analog multiplication to get I and Q?) -Ian On 7/18/07, Johnathan Corgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ian Larsen wrote: > I have a conceptual question about the USRP.

[Discuss-gnuradio] Why 4 ADC's?

2007-07-17 Thread Ian Larsen
Hello, I have a conceptual question about the USRP. Why are there 4 A/D converters? Is it only for flexibility reasons, or can you acheive double the sampling rate by clocking two of them 180 degrees of from each other and interleaving the resulting data? Also, it looks to me like the default