Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RFX2400 Transmit power

2009-01-21 Thread Matt Ettus
Yong J. Chang wrote: Thanks all! As I know so far, RFX2400 doesn't have amplifier we can control. So set_gain() doesn't affect any transmit power. Right? Now I'm trying to control PGA gain on FPGA side, but I confused. AD9862 has pga which can be controled in range [0 ~ -20dB]. self.u.set_pga

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RFX2400 Transmit power

2009-01-21 Thread Yong J. Chang
Thanks all! As I know so far, RFX2400 doesn't have amplifier we can control. So set_gain() doesn't affect any transmit power. Right? Now I'm trying to control PGA gain on FPGA side, but I confused. AD9862 has pga which can be controled in range [0 ~ -20dB]. self.u.set_pga(0,-20) pga_gain = self

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RFX2400 Transmit power

2009-01-21 Thread Martin Braun
Yep, Brian's right. Doing what you propose would be equivalent to reducing the DAC to ~7bit and thus reducing signal-to-quantisation-noise-ratio by 54dB (!). You don't want that. Try subdev.set_gain(). You can see the available gain range with subdev.gain_range() (subdev is the object to access t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RFX2400 Transmit power

2009-01-20 Thread Brian Dunn
Hi Yong, I think with maximum signal levels of +/- 45 on the digital side your signal would be severely distorted due to quantization noise. Perhaps the easiest thing to do would be to put a mini-circuits attenuator inline with the SMA output of the RFX2400 board? Not sure if this will wo

[Discuss-gnuradio] RFX2400 Transmit power

2009-01-20 Thread Yong J. Chang
Hi, all! Now I'm using USRP1 and RFX2400 d'board. In our project, we have to be able to reduce transmit power down to -40dBm. Please correct me if my approach is wrong. If we set tx_pga=0dB, the transmit power only depends on the level of signal. So, +/-32767 can give us maximum transmit power 1