Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidth for USRP

2006-06-27 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:25:51PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 11:18 -0400, Marcus Leech wrote: > > I'll try for 6MHz wide segments cut from 8MHz plots to smooth out > the curve next time, rain permitting. ImageMagick make automating > the cropping and montage creating from

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidth for USRP

2006-06-27 Thread Marcus Leech
Charles Swiger wrote: Yes, and barely room for that. There's still lots of C-band dishes out there free for the taking, so I've heard. I'll try for 6MHz wide segments cut from 8MHz plots to smooth out the curve next time, rain permitting. ImageMagick make automating the cropping and montage cre

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidth for USRP

2006-06-27 Thread Charles Swiger
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 11:18 -0400, Marcus Leech wrote: > > > There's an astronomically-important spectral line at > 12.178Ghz--Methanol. Which will come out of your > LNB at 1428Mhz. The M45 region of the sky produces Methanol masering > outbursts on a regular basis. > But you probably

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidth for USRP

2006-06-27 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:55:43AM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 17:12 -0700, Matt Ettus wrote: > > >doesn't it look like the USB 2.0 is a heavily constraining bottleneck? > > > > > > > > Yes, USB2.0 is the bottleneck. > > > > >And, if I'm not wrong about this, will it be po

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidth for USRP

2006-06-27 Thread Marcus Leech
Charles Swiger wrote: For what it's worth, here's an simple 1st attempt to make a montage of 8MHz plots to show a wide band (240MHz of Galaxy 10R at 123W, Ku vertical): http://webpages.charter.net/cswiger/123w_3.jpg (1MB) The LNB lo is 10750M, so where it says "968" the actual f is 11718MHz,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidth for USRP

2006-06-27 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 17:12 -0700, Matt Ettus wrote: > >doesn't it look like the USB 2.0 is a heavily constraining bottleneck? > > > > > Yes, USB2.0 is the bottleneck. > > >And, if I'm not wrong about this, will it be possible in the future to > >have a USRP <--> PC interface which doesn't limit

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidth for USRP

2006-06-26 Thread Marcus Leech
David Carr wrote: All this RA talk makes me curious about what a typical RA IF setup looks like. Do RA samplers usually employ quadrature sampling (I and Q) or do they sample a "real" signal at twice the desired bandwidth? Also, if the big boys use 1GHz sample rates, what do the little boys u

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidth for USRP

2006-06-26 Thread David Carr
All this RA talk makes me curious about what a typical RA IF setup looks like. Do RA samplers usually employ quadrature sampling (I and Q) or do they sample a "real" signal at twice the desired bandwidth? Also, if the big boys use 1GHz sample rates, what do the little boys use? 10s or 100s of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidth for USRP

2006-06-26 Thread Nikhil
>doesn't it look like the USB 2.0 is a heavily constraining bottleneck?> > Yes, USB2.0 is the bottleneck.  >And, if I'm not wrong about this, will it be possible in the future to>have a USRP <--> PC interface which doesn't limit us so much.>> Other than 802.11, there aren't many applications that

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidth for USRP

2006-06-26 Thread Marcus Leech
Matt Ettus wrote: Other than 802.11, there aren't many applications that require more than 8 MHz of bandwidth. Radio astronomy is one, but you can use fewer bits per sample with RA. It is not uncommon to use 1 or 2 bits per sample, which would allow you to cover 128 and 64 MHz respectivel

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidth for USRP

2006-06-26 Thread Jason Hecker
doesn't it look like the USB 2.0 is a heavily constraining bottleneck? Yes, USB2.0 is the bottleneck. And, if I'm not wrong about this, will it be possible in the future to have a USRP <--> PC interface which doesn't limit us so much. Would something like a dedicated PCI LVDS card be a viable

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidth for USRP

2006-06-26 Thread Matt Ettus
doesn't it look like the USB 2.0 is a heavily constraining bottleneck? Yes, USB2.0 is the bottleneck. And, if I'm not wrong about this, will it be possible in the future to have a USRP <--> PC interface which doesn't limit us so much. Other than 802.11, there aren't many applications th

[Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidth for USRP

2006-06-26 Thread Vincenzo Pellegrini
Hi everybody, this is probably a silly question, but there's one thing i cannot fully understand. Considering that the 2 ADCs per channel on the USRP allow complex samping at 64Msps, and therefore a 64MHz Spectral Bandwidth, and that my inexpensive PC just needs 45% of CPU calculation power in ord