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 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
happily share any test/usage results if we get there.
Tyrel
On Apr 8, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Paul Creekmore wrote:
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 data
packing to maximize the number of samples that we can squeeze across
the USB interface and thus also the receivable signal bandwidth.
We've not yet tested the modifications.
--Paul
Tyrel Newton wrote:
<div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">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 there a similar option that allows for 4-bit I and Q
samples? Or similarly, would it be relatively easy to implement a
4-bits per sample scheme, possibly w/ slight modifications to the
USRP firmware? Any feedback and/or advice is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Tyrel
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