Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Gain

2008-09-05 Thread Brian Padalino
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Richard Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, if the gain is really in (0.5, 1), that makes my missing gain > situation worse. I would be hunting for more than 20,000 in that case. > Also, it is inconsistent with my measurements that show that the gain > increas

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Gain

2008-09-05 Thread Richard Jaeger
On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Matt Ettus wrote: Re CIC gain, there's a also a decimation specific shifter involved in the path. Please take a look at Yes. You guys have the R^4 formula right, but the shifter takes back most of the gain. The actual gain from the CIC decimator once

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Gain

2008-09-05 Thread Richard Jaeger
Q3: MDS measurement The signal disappears into the noise floor with the attenuator at 66 dB or 10 mV/2000 = 5 uV input signal. I believe the USRP ADCs are 12 bits with VFS = 2V, so the LSB is 2V/ 4096 or about 488 uV. How is the system resolving signals that are 20-40 dB below the LSB size?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Gain

2008-09-04 Thread Matt Ettus
Re CIC gain, there's a also a decimation specific shifter involved in the path. Please take a look at Yes. You guys have the R^4 formula right, but the shifter takes back most of the gain. The actual gain from the CIC decimator once you include the shifter is: R^4 / ( 2^ ceiling(

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Gain

2008-09-04 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:04:22AM -0500, Richard Jaeger wrote: > Brian, > > More questions. > > Q1: I had second thoughts about the CIC gain. > > If I am going to use a 4th order CIC to give an overall decimation of R, > then the decimation of each stage will be > the fourth root of R, and the g

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Gain

2008-09-04 Thread Richard Jaeger
Brian, More questions. Q1: I had second thoughts about the CIC gain. If I am going to use a 4th order CIC to give an overall decimation of R, then the decimation of each stage will be the fourth root of R, and the gain of the fourth-order filter will be g = (R^0.25)^4 = R- back to eq

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Gain

2008-09-02 Thread Richard Jaeger
On Sep 1, 2008, at 9:55 PM, Brian Padalino wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Richard Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been attempting to calibrate my USRP system. I am running four channels and feeding the various channels to fft sinks following de-interleaving and channel filt

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Gain

2008-09-01 Thread Brian Padalino
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Richard Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been attempting to calibrate my USRP system. I am running four > channels and feeding the various channels to > fft sinks following de-interleaving and channel filtering. I am using the > Basic RX boards, and the P

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Gain

2008-09-01 Thread Richard Jaeger
I have been attempting to calibrate my USRP system. I am running four channels and feeding the various channels to fft sinks following de-interleaving and channel filtering. I am using the Basic RX boards, and the PGA in front of the ADC is set at 20 dB. For large decimation, the sensitivity

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Gain

2008-07-23 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 07:45:57AM -0700, isaacgerg wrote: > > Is there any documentation on what the gain does for the USRP receive and > transmit functions. Sometimes it seems like these values are meaningless. Sometimes they are fixed. Have you queried the valid ranges for the daughterboards

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Gain

2008-07-23 Thread isaacgerg
Is there any documentation on what the gain does for the USRP receive and transmit functions. Sometimes it seems like these values are meaningless. Also, I am noticing that when I begin to Rx data, there is often a huge amplitude spike within the first 2k samples I Rx. Is this normal? -- Vie