Hi Marc, On 20.06.2014 09:38, Marc Miller wrote: > ADC in N210 is sampling at 100Msps, so you are saying that I can get > processing gain (better SNR) if I set the USRP sink sample rate higher > than IMsps i.e usrp_sink.sample_rate(3.125e6) instead of > usrp_sink.sample_rate(1e6) . Right ? Also I read [1] that if I > oversample by 2 then I gain 3dB in SNR, if oversample by 4 I gain 6dB > in SNR and so on, is that TRUE ? If this is true I can get a lot of > SNR improvement because ADCs are operating at 100Msps. As long as your noise stays uncorrelated, and your signal samples do the opposite, you will have this processing gain; so yes, this is basically what is done.
So, the limiting factors here a) the fact that you have but GigE between your host and your USRP, meaning that you can't do more than 1e9b/s / (16 b/sample) / (2 sample/complex) = 31.25Msample/s over that link at all, and since the the USRP can only do integer fractions of the 100MHz master rate, this will effectively be 25MS/s [1]; but even more b) the fact that millions of samples are just *really much data* to process, and if you can't keep up with the sample rate, then at some point, UHD will have to drop samples, which will greatly distort your signal. > Thanks for the detail. Also, I got FSK modulator working using the VCO :) Keep this going! The nice thing about GNU Radio is that you can test your modulator in software only by replacing your USRP sink by your receiver flow graph, usually adding a throttle[2!] to limit the CPU usage. Have you tried looking at the spectrum of the signal you generated, e.g. with the QT GUI waterfall sink [3]? There is BER probes, so you can test and compare different implementations of your receiver. I think this is a good point to drop you off to your own experimentation, and study of the effects coming up. Have fun! Greetings, Marcus [1] You can configure the device to just send 8 bit samples, but that will limit the SNR because it introduces quantization noise, and is usually the opposite of what you want to do in a bad-SNR situation [2] you never use throttle in a flowgraph with hardware, because the hardware will be there to limit your sample flow. I only mention this because we see this mistake so often. [3] Remember to set the Generate Option in the Options Block to QT, if you use QT sinks. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
