Thanks, I wasn't 100% clear if there were some conditions for interchangability after Jonathon's reply, but it sounds like not.
Cheers Ian. -----Original Message----- From: discuss-gnuradio-bounces+ian.holland=rlmgroup.com...@gnu.org [mailto:discuss-gnuradio-bounces+ian.holland=rlmgroup.com...@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Jason Uher Sent: Wednesday, 14 April 2010 12:19 PM To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why no phase ambiguity in digital-bert... > I notice in the digital-bert example (benchmark_rx.py and > receive_path.py), the Costas loop actually occurs prior to the MM > sampler, without being wrapped inside the mpsk_receiver: (lines 104-105 > of > http://gnuradio.org/cgit/gnuradio.git/tree/gnuradio-examples/python/digi > tal-bert/receive_path.py) > > self.connect(self, self._agc, self._rrc, self._costas, self._mm, > self._c2r, self._slicer, self._descrambler, > self._ber) > > Are these operations generally interchangeable? > > Thanks > > Ian. My explanation pertained to the benchmark_rx; but Johnathan already said it doesnt matter in his first reply ;) >Not sure what post you are referring to. While a Costas loop can >indeed operate on a single sample per symbol, it can also operate on >more than that. Different strategies in a receiver chain places the >frequency/phase synchronization at different places. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio