Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reference Clock power level for Ettus N210

2014-04-24 Thread Antonio Petrolino
Thank you all for the precious suggestions. Antonio On 04/23/2014 05:45 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:37:44 +0200 Attila Kinali wrote: For all else. Using a good quartz oscillator is more than good enough and you dont need to care about anything but having approximately the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reference Clock power level for Ettus N210

2014-04-23 Thread Attila Kinali
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:37:44 +0200 Attila Kinali wrote: > For all else. Using a good quartz oscillator is more than good enough > and you dont need to care about anything but having approximately the > right signal levels. Let me give you a bit more information here. According to the N210 schem

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reference Clock power level for Ettus N210

2014-04-23 Thread Attila Kinali
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:07:52 +0200 Antonio Petrolino wrote: > Using an external 10 MHz reference clock, a square wave will offer the > best phase noise performance, but a sinusoid is acceptable. The difference between the phase noise of a square wave and a sinus input is negligible in a radio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reference Clock power level for Ettus N210

2014-04-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 04/23/2014 09:31 AM, Marcus Müller wrote: Hi, looking at the N200 schematics from files.ettus.com, I'd say: stick to the 0dBm, your clock signal has to pass a transformer and some safety/matching circuitry and still ought to be more accurate than the on-board VCTCXO; the clock multiplexer (

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reference Clock power level for Ettus N210

2014-04-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 04/23/2014 09:07 AM, Antonio Petrolino wrote: Hi, I'm using a USRP N210 and I need a 10 MHz reference clock. From ettus.com I got: " Ref Clock - 10 MHz Using an external 10 MHz reference clock, a square wave will offer the best phase noise performance, but a sinusoid is acceptable. The

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reference Clock power level for Ettus N210

2014-04-23 Thread Matt Ettus
We posted those numbers because they are the numbers we know will work reliably. -15dBm is unlikely to work well, but you won't damage anything by trying. Matt On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Antonio Petrolino wrote: > Thank you Marcus, > I will wait for some answers from usrp-us...@lists.ett

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reference Clock power level for Ettus N210

2014-04-23 Thread Antonio Petrolino
Thank you Marcus, I will wait for some answers from usrp-us...@lists.ettus.com before proceeding. Best regards, Antonio On 04/23/2014 03:31 PM, Marcus Müller wrote: Hi, looking at the N200 schematics from files.ettus.com, I'd say: stick to the 0dBm, your clock signal has to pass a transforme

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reference Clock power level for Ettus N210

2014-04-23 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi, looking at the N200 schematics from files.ettus.com, I'd say: stick to the 0dBm, your clock signal has to pass a transformer and some safety/matching circuitry and still ought to be more accurate than the on-board VCTCXO; the clock multiplexer (http://www.micrel.com/index.php/en/products/cl

[Discuss-gnuradio] Reference Clock power level for Ettus N210

2014-04-23 Thread Antonio Petrolino
Hi, I'm using a USRP N210 and I need a 10 MHz reference clock. From ettus.com I got: " Ref Clock - 10 MHz Using an external 10 MHz reference clock, a square wave will offer the best phase noise performance, but a sinusoid is acceptable. The reference clock requires the following power level