On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Vincenzo Pellegrini <wwvi...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Nick, thanks for the answer.
>
> Everything clear.
> Just a further question.
> Would a 0V-mean, 3.3V peak-to-peak sinusoid be correct as a reference
> signal for the B100?
>

Use a 5-10dBm reference with no DC component. This corresponds to 1-2V p-p.

--n


>
> regards
>
> vince
>
>
>
> Il giorno 23 marzo 2012 18:30, Nick Foster <n...@ettus.com> ha scritto:
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Vincenzo Pellegrini 
> <wwvi...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Nick,
>>> I have noticed that "j101" onboard the B100 outputs a 64 MHz reference.
>>>
>>> Could it be possilble to feed that signal somehow into a second USRP
>>> B100 to be used as a reference?
>>>
>>
>> You would have to go through some gymnastics (read: soldering) to get
>> that reference into the second B100, and some code rework to recalculate
>> clock rates based on a 64MHz (or divisor of 64MHz) instead of 10MHz.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Could it be possible as an alternative to lock two B100 to an external
>>> 10 MHz reference while still working at 8Msps sample rate ?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, this is what the ref in connectors are for. The external reference
>> is independent of the sample rate. The B100s will continue to operate
>> normally, except locked to each other.
>>
>> --n
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> my best regards
>>>
>>> vincenzo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Il giorno 23 marzo 2012 16:54, Nick Foster <n...@ettus.com> ha scritto:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Vincenzo Pellegrini 
>>> <wwvi...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>>
>>>>> just a very quick question:
>>>>>
>>>>> is it possible to enslave the clock of a B100 to the clock of another
>>>>> B100 via the "REF IN" input or in some other way?
>>>>>  More precisely, is there a way to extract the clock signal from a
>>>>> B100 and feed it into another B100 to enslave the latter to the former?
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be great to be able to keep them in frequency and phase synch
>>>>> that way.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Vincenzo,
>>>>
>>>> The ref in input on B100 is intended to accept a 10MHz signal. Multiple
>>>> B100s can be synchronized by using a common reference, but there is no
>>>> facility to lock two B100s to each other without a common external
>>>> reference.
>>>>
>>>> --n
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> thank you
>>>>>
>>>>> vince
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Vincenzo Pellegrini
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/user/wwvince1
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Vincenzo Pellegrini
>>> http://www.youtube.com/user/wwvince1
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Vincenzo Pellegrini
> http://www.youtube.com/user/wwvince1
>
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