Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] frequency tuning word quantization

2006-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 11:35, Eric Blossom wrote: > Here are a couple of specific suggestions: I'll second the suggestions, and add a third for those who want to do FPGA development: 'Digital Signal Processing with Field Programmable Gate Arrays' 2nd Ed, Uwe Meye-Baese. Published by Springe

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] frequency tuning word quantization

2006-03-08 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:45:04AM +0100, Matteo Campanella wrote: > great... this should mean we should be able to test alot of examples > removing the xlating filter from the chain... I hope to run some tests > asap; in the meanwhile Eric, what is a good starter example to understand > how to dec

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] frequency tuning word quantization

2006-03-08 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:42:56PM +0100, Matteo Campanella wrote: > I also meant a gnuradio example, eg. some block that does this already or > almost ;-) > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:45:04AM +0100, Matteo Campanella wrote: > >> great... this should mean we should be able to test alot of exampl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] frequency tuning word quantization

2006-03-07 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:32:05PM -0500, David I. Emery wrote: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:53:44PM -0800, Eric Blossom wrote: > > > > In the FPGA, the phase word (not the accumulator) is approximately > > 15-bits wide. This gives worst case phase-truncation spurs of -90 dBc. > > This looks smal

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] frequency tuning word quantization

2006-03-07 Thread David I. Emery
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 12:03:33PM -0800, Eric Blossom wrote: > Good question. I've wanted to revisit it myself too. > As I recall it was to reduce the spurs in the DDC output. > If you get a chance, please see if you can find relevant papers. > I suggest searching for "DDS spurs", or something li

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] frequency tuning word quantization

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Dvh
Eric Blossom wrote: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 08:12:37AM +0100, Matteo Campanella wrote: > >>I digged into the usrp c code, and I have found the following code, that >>basically says we could use 32 bits for tuning on the fpga, but we truncate >>it to 14 - unless there's a good reason for that,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] frequency tuning word quantization

2006-03-06 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 07:18:40PM -0500, David I. Emery wrote: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 12:03:33PM -0800, Eric Blossom wrote: > > Good question. I've wanted to revisit it myself too. > > As I recall it was to reduce the spurs in the DDC output. > > If you get a chance, please see if you can find

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] frequency tuning word quantization

2006-03-06 Thread David I. Emery
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:53:44PM -0800, Eric Blossom wrote: > > In the FPGA, the phase word (not the accumulator) is approximately > 15-bits wide. This gives worst case phase-truncation spurs of -90 dBc. > This looks small enough that we can safely ignore it. Therefore, > I suggest we stop tru

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] frequency tuning word quantization

2006-03-05 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 08:12:37AM +0100, Matteo Campanella wrote: > I digged into the usrp c code, and I have found the following code, that > basically says we could use 32 bits for tuning on the fpga, but we truncate > it to 14 - unless there's a good reason for that, we could be much more >