On 11/28/2014 03:41 PM, khalid.el-darymli wrote:
Back to my original question, what should I do to correct for this?
Thanks in advance.
Best,
Khalid
Khalid:
Thanks very much for the very-extensive data. My main concern, as one
of the Ettus support team, was that there was something wrong with
the hardware, but the magnitude of both the apparent phase and
magnitude drift is entirely consistent with analog-hardware temperature
effects, unrelated to clock stability, etc.
Coax cables, for example, will change their loss characteristics and
*effective length* with temperature, so with precise hardware like
USRPs, it's
easy to see these effects.
FMCW radar isn't my area of expertise, so hopefully others can comment
on RX-processing strategies to deal with this, as it *must* also be a
problem
with non-SDR FMCW radar implementations.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 12:08 PM, <mle...@ripnet.com
<mailto:mle...@ripnet.com>> wrote:
What is the magnitude of the frequency drift?
What is the magnitude of the gain drift?
What are you measuring backscatter *from*?
On 2014-11-28 10:14, khalid.el-darymli via USRP-users wrote:
Hi,
Given a set of synced /(i.e., using external GPS REF/PPS)/,
time-commanded and calibrated /(i.e., through compensating for
the phase/mag offset between digital Tx chirp prior to
transmission and ADC'ed Rx signals) /N200 devices with LFTX/LFRX
daughterboards, that work with coherent LFMCW chirps, I am still
seeing a tiny drift (both in the magnitude and frequency) of the
calibrated back-scatter Rx chirp received at time t1 when
compared to an Rx chirp received at an earlier time t0.
The more the N200 device runs (e.g., 5 hours), the greater the
drift is. Obviously, this drift is pertinent to both the DAC and
ADCs and the GPS referenced clocks of the N200 devices.
My questions are:
1- Why I still see such drift although my devices are synced with
an external GPS? and how do I correct for it?
2- Can the *PLL Carrier Tracking *block in GRC be used to track
and correct for such a drift? If so, how do I set the max/min
freq inputs for this block?
3- Can *AGC2* or *AGC3 *block be useful in this regard? If so,
are there any examples to explain how the input parameters of
these blocks can be set up?
Thanks.
Best regards,
Khalid
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