Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP N210 Benchmarks.

2011-12-08 Thread Paul M. Bendixen
Just to follow up, have you tried using the auto calibration of the IQ channel released recently? As far as we can discern, this might give you a good deal of reduction in the problematic spurious frequencies. Also by using manual tuning where the daughterboard tuning is at least 12.5 kHz away (fo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP N210 Benchmarks.

2011-11-28 Thread Paul M. Bendixen
Hi Nick Thank you for looking into this. 2011/11/26 Nick Foster > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Paul M. Bendixen > wrote: > > Hi again > > Thank you very much, we expect our thesis will be available from some > time > > next year, we will add it to the academic section. > > > > The work we

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP N210 Benchmarks.

2011-11-25 Thread Nick Foster
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Paul M. Bendixen wrote: > Hi again > Thank you very much, we expect our thesis will be available from some time > next year, we will add it to the academic section. > > The work we have done so far have pointed us to the daughterboard mixer. > All mixers have probl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP N210 Benchmarks.

2011-11-24 Thread Paul M. Bendixen
Hi again Thank you very much, we expect our thesis will be available from some time next year, we will add it to the academic section. The work we have done so far have pointed us to the daughterboard mixer. All mixers have problems causing harmonics, and our research so far has shown us that this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP N210 Benchmarks.

2011-11-22 Thread Justyn Bell
Hey guys, sorry for the extremely late response. Although identifying and solving USRP problems is great, our focus lies in the project at hand. That being said, the responses on here were great. We tried scaling the input signal magnitude and it actually worked very well. The perplexing thing,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP N210 Benchmarks.

2011-10-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
> > > 2011/10/27 Marcus D. Leech mailto:mle...@ripnet.com>> > >> >> Well, that sounds like the lazy solution, intermodulation >> products are bad, so just throwing the transmitter power away is >> not what I'd prefer. >> > But what it points to is an *analog* issue, entirely

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP N210 Benchmarks.

2011-10-28 Thread Paul M. Bendixen
2011/10/27 Marcus D. Leech > > Well, that sounds like the lazy solution, intermodulation products are > bad, so just throwing the transmitter power away is not what I'd prefer. > > > But what it points to is an *analog* issue, entirely independant of the > CORDIC (which, as I observe, isn't like

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP N210 Benchmarks.

2011-10-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I'll refer the list to this: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/attachments/download/249/02-ettus-practical-radios.pdf Which gives a decent overview of the issues that happen at the interface between the digital world of "perfection", and the horrible, capricious, analog world beyond the DAC. --

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP N210 Benchmarks.

2011-10-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Well, that sounds like the lazy solution, intermodulation products are bad, so just throwing the transmitter power away is not what I'd prefer. But what it points to is an *analog* issue, entirely independant of the CORDIC (which, as I observe, isn't likely involved in the test cases at hand

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP N210 Benchmarks.

2011-10-27 Thread Paul M. Bendixen
Hello 2011/10/27 Marcus D. Leech > The attached two_tone flow-graph shows that close-in intermod products are sensitive to overall signal magnitude settings. Keep the digitla signal magnitudes lower, and the intermod products are quite well suppressed. The flow-graph is setup for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP N210 Benchmarks.

2011-10-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 27/10/11 03:42 AM, Paul M. Bendixen wrote: > Hello to you too > > At our university we have seen this behaviour as well. > Our setup is a USRP N210 with a 2400 daughterboard into a Rhode & > Swartz spectrum analyzer. > We also get these sidelobes, and if you trawl the archives, you will > find o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP N210 Benchmarks.

2011-10-27 Thread Paul M. Bendixen
Hello to you too At our university we have seen this behaviour as well. Our setup is a USRP N210 with a 2400 daughterboard into a Rhode & Swartz spectrum analyzer. We also get these sidelobes, and if you trawl the archives, you will find others have as well. Currently we are working on a theory t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP N210 Benchmarks.

2011-10-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Hello all: We have been working on an APCO P25 project at my university, and are fortunate enough to have 4 USRP N210's all equipped with the WBX boards. As the project has progressed we have accomplished many of our goals. However, one thing that has haunted us throughout the entire project is

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP N210 Benchmarks.

2011-10-26 Thread justynnuff
Hello all: We have been working on an APCO P25 project at my university, and are fortunate enough to have 4 USRP N210's all equipped with the WBX boards. As the project has progressed we have accomplished many of our goals. However, one thing that has haunted us throughout the entire project is