On 07/10/2014 05:33 AM, Vanush Vaswani wrote: > I think 'Magnitude' is better than counts, which is just confusing.
There's a difference: 'Counts' implies the digital nature of the signal, and 'Magnitude' cannot be negative. 'Amplitude' would work, but again, that doesn't imply amplitude-discrete steps. M > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Sylvain Munaut <246...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:09 AM, jsam45 <josephsamue...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The vertical axis in Scope Plot is labelled as Counts. What does it mean? >>> How >>> is it related to the physical parameters of the signal like amplitude/power? >> >> It's dependent on your hardware. >> >> Basically 'count' is just the raw value and what that value means is >> whatever the source block returned. It can be normalized between -1.0 >> and 1.0 or represent the raw adc value, and then what voltage the >> represents depends on the ADC reference used in your hw. What power it >> represent at the input depends on the total gain in the rx chain from >> input to ADC ... >> >> All of that is out-of-scope for GR, you have to calibrate it out if >> you want absolute/known units. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Sylvain >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
