[USRP-users] Re: Usable bandwidth of X300 USRP with UBX-160 daughterboard

2025-02-19 Thread brendan . horsfield
Hi Martin, Thanks for your kind offer. I would be very interested in obtaining the taps for the half-band filters in the X300 series, if it’s not too much trouble. Another contributor emailed me the taps for a USRP half-band filter yesterday, but they weren’t 100% sure if the taps were from th

[USRP-users] Re: Usable bandwidth of X300 USRP with UBX-160 daughterboard

2025-02-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 19/02/2025 02:22, Brendan Horsfield wrote: Just to clarify one point:  How do you define the start of the transition region?  Do you go from the 3 dB corner frequency, or something else, like the equiripple bandwidth of the FIR filter? I just did it visually on an FFT display from the 3dB co

[USRP-users] Re: Usable bandwidth of X300 USRP with UBX-160 daughterboard

2025-02-19 Thread Martin Braun
Hi Brendan, 80% is an excellent rule of thumb for both the analog and digital filters. If you use "odd" decimations (e.g., you try and capture at 66 Msps), then the digital filter response is worse, but if you capture at say 50 Msps (at a 200 Msps sampling rate) then you have two nice half-band fi

[USRP-users] Re: Usable bandwidth of X300 USRP with UBX-160 daughterboard

2025-02-18 Thread Brendan Horsfield
Just to clarify one point: How do you define the start of the transition region? Do you go from the 3 dB corner frequency, or something else, like the equiripple bandwidth of the FIR filter? On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 at 13:11, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 18/02/2025 21:45, Brendan Horsfield wrote: >

[USRP-users] Re: Usable bandwidth of X300 USRP with UBX-160 daughterboard

2025-02-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 18/02/2025 21:45, Brendan Horsfield wrote: Point taken.  At this stage we are mainly interested in straight IQ recording & playback with minimal processing.  However, in the future it would be desirable to be able to display a real-time spectrum trace & waterfall plot during recording/playba

[USRP-users] Re: Usable bandwidth of X300 USRP with UBX-160 daughterboard

2025-02-18 Thread Brendan Horsfield
Point taken. At this stage we are mainly interested in straight IQ recording & playback with minimal processing. However, in the future it would be desirable to be able to display a real-time spectrum trace & waterfall plot during recording/playback, using GNU Radio or something like it. As you

[USRP-users] Re: Usable bandwidth of X300 USRP with UBX-160 daughterboard

2025-02-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 18/02/2025 19:26, Brendan Horsfield wrote: I thought your name sounded familiar! 🙂 Overall the X310+UBX-160 appears to be a good fit to our requirements.  My original question was really about ensuring that our host PC & network interface have sufficient bandwidth to ingest the IQ data fro

[USRP-users] Re: Usable bandwidth of X300 USRP with UBX-160 daughterboard

2025-02-18 Thread Brendan Horsfield
I thought your name sounded familiar! 🙂 Overall the X310+UBX-160 appears to be a good fit to our requirements. My original question was really about ensuring that our host PC & network interface have sufficient bandwidth to ingest the IQ data from a pair of UBX-160s. It would be nice (although n

[USRP-users] Re: Usable bandwidth of X300 USRP with UBX-160 daughterboard

2025-02-18 Thread Brendan Horsfield
Thanks for the suggestion about the noise source -- that's what I would normally do. Unfortunately I haven't actually purchased the hardware yet -- I was hoping to clarify this issue before raising a purchase order. Perhaps I should follow this up with one of the application engineers at NI? The

[USRP-users] Re: Usable bandwidth of X300 USRP with UBX-160 daughterboard

2025-02-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 18/02/2025 19:13, Brendan Horsfield wrote: Thanks for the suggestion about the noise source -- that's what I would normally do.  Unfortunately I haven't actually purchased the hardware yet -- I was hoping to clarify this issue before raising a purchase order. Perhaps I should follow this u

[USRP-users] Re: Usable bandwidth of X300 USRP with UBX-160 daughterboard

2025-02-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 18/02/2025 18:45, Brendan Horsfield wrote: Yes, I assumed that was the case.  However, it is not clear from the X300 documentation how sharp those filters are.  Can you tell me how wide the transition band is at the lower sample rates? To give you some context, I would like to use an X300 (

[USRP-users] Re: Usable bandwidth of X300 USRP with UBX-160 daughterboard

2025-02-18 Thread Brendan Horsfield
Yes, I assumed that was the case. However, it is not clear from the X300 documentation how sharp those filters are. Can you tell me how wide the transition band is at the lower sample rates? To give you some context, I would like to use an X300 (or X310) with a UBX-160 daughterboard to digitise

[USRP-users] Re: Usable bandwidth of X300 USRP with UBX-160 daughterboard

2025-02-18 Thread Marcus D Leech
There will always be some edge roll off. Decimation includes filtering and those filters cannot be infinitely steep. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 18, 2025, at 2:12 AM, Brendan Horsfield > wrote: > >  > Hi All, > > I have a question about the usable bandwidth of the X300 USRP / UBX-160 > da