Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-12 Thread Michael West via USRP-users
Ian, Thanks for the insight! The changes for the RFNoC blocks are correct, but the DSP cores (rx_dsp_core_3000 and tx_dsp_core_3000) that use the CORDIC should not have been changed. It looks like the fix might be as simple as backing out the changes to rx_dsp_core_3000.cpp and tx_dsp_core_3000.

Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-12 Thread Ian Buckley via USRP-users
I think look to commit d588005fd87dd2594adb29dbbdcf948bbb0ab0c1 and files uhd/host/lib/usrp/cores/tx_dsp_core_3000.cpp and uhd/host/lib/usrp/cores/rx_dsp_core_3000.cpp CORDIC compensation gain was mistakenly eliminated in UHD for all 3rd generation USRP’s rather than just the ones that switche

Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-12 Thread Ron Economos via USRP-users
Gnu Radio flow graph attached. Ron On 09/12/2018 12:43 AM, Cedric Roux wrote: Dear Ron, On 09/11/18 08:49, Ron Economos via USRP-users wrote: I've done more testing. Here are some plots with the spectrum analyzer in zero span and a real sawtooth wave being transmitted. I would like to try t

Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-12 Thread Cedric Roux via USRP-users
Dear Ron, On 09/11/18 08:49, Ron Economos via USRP-users wrote: I've done more testing. Here are some plots with the spectrum analyzer in zero span and a real sawtooth wave being transmitted. I would like to try this in our lab. Is it possible for you to share your code to generate the sawtoot

Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-11 Thread Michael West via USRP-users
Hi Ron, Thank you for bringing this to our attention and for all the detailed reports on the issue. We will need to look into it. Is it possible for you to continue using UHD 3.11.1.0 while we look into the issue? Regards, Michael On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 11:49 PM, Ron Economos via USRP-users <

Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-10 Thread Ron Economos via USRP-users
I've done more testing. Here are some plots with the spectrum analyzer in zero span and a real sawtooth wave being transmitted. The first plot is with 3.11.1.0 and sawtooth amplitude = 1.0. /Perfectly linear./ This also shows that it's entirely possible to have baseband amplitudes approaching

Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users
On 09/10/2018 10:48 PM, Ron Economos via USRP-users wrote: It seems like it was correct before and wrong now. It's always been said that baseband levels must be restricted to -1.0 to 1.0. Now it's something different? I consider this issue to be the same as a patch to the Linux kernel that br

Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-10 Thread Ron Economos via USRP-users
It seems like it was correct before and wrong now. It's always been said that baseband levels must be restricted to -1.0 to 1.0. Now it's something different? I consider this issue to be the same as a patch to the Linux kernel that breaks user space. And you know how Linus feels about that.

Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users
On 09/10/2018 10:21 PM, Ron Economos via USRP-users wrote: I have to reduce the baseband amplitude from 0.96 to 0.67 to achieve the same IMD. This is a very annoying issue for me, especially since I've set levels in the Gnu Radio gr-dtv example flow graphs based on previous behavior. Ron

Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-10 Thread Ron Economos via USRP-users
I have to reduce the baseband amplitude from 0.96 to 0.67 to achieve the same IMD. This is a very annoying issue for me, especially since I've set levels in the Gnu Radio gr-dtv example flow graphs based on previous behavior. Ron On 09/10/2018 05:37 PM, Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users wrote:

Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users
On 09/10/2018 08:34 PM, Ron Economos via USRP-users wrote: I'll try that. It's going to take a while though since I have to rebuild. Ron Understood. Sorry for the PITA On 09/10/2018 05:30 PM, Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users wrote: On 09/10/2018 08:27 PM, Ron Economos via USRP-users wro

Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-10 Thread Ron Economos via USRP-users
I'll try that. It's going to take a while though since I have to rebuild. Ron On 09/10/2018 05:30 PM, Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users wrote: On 09/10/2018 08:27 PM, Ron Economos via USRP-users wrote: No change with 3.13.0. Haven't tried 3.14, since it's not released yet. Ron Is this effect

Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users
On 09/10/2018 08:27 PM, Ron Economos via USRP-users wrote: No change with 3.13.0. Haven't tried 3.14, since it's not released yet. Ron Is this effect independent of baseband magnitude? On 09/10/2018 05:21 PM, Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users wrote: On 09/10/2018 08:17 PM, Ron Economos via U

Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-10 Thread Ron Economos via USRP-users
No change with 3.13.0. Haven't tried 3.14, since it's not released yet. Ron On 09/10/2018 05:21 PM, Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users wrote: On 09/10/2018 08:17 PM, Ron Economos via USRP-users wrote: I had previously noted that the B210 TX power had increased by about 5 dB going from UHD 3.11.1

Re: [USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users
On 09/10/2018 08:17 PM, Ron Economos via USRP-users wrote: I had previously noted that the B210 TX power had increased by about 5 dB going from UHD 3.11.1.0 to UHD 3.12.0. Today, I was doing some two tone IMD testing and noticed that the IMD performance has degraded *severely* from UHD 3.11.1

[USRP-users] B2X0 transmit quality degraded with UHD 3.12.0

2018-09-10 Thread Ron Economos via USRP-users
I had previously noted that the B210 TX power had increased by about 5 dB going from UHD 3.11.1.0 to UHD 3.12.0. Today, I was doing some two tone IMD testing and noticed that the IMD performance has degraded *severely* from UHD 3.11.1.0 to UHD 3.12.0. Here are the spectrum analyzer plots at ro