Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Generating chrip signals

[Eric Blossom]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 03:44:27AM -0700, seph 004 wrote:
> Hi
>  

>  At the moment I would like to see if I can generate a chirp
>  signal. Looking through what gnuradio blocks are available, I
>  assumed I could use the gr_fxpt_nco block to do something like
>  this. I was wondering firstly if it would be possible, and
>  secondly, how this block works and behaves when it's running.
>  
>  Regards
>  Lance

gr_fxpt_nco doesn't derive from gr_block.  It's a low level primitive
used within blocks.

However, you could generate a chirp by feeding
gr.frequency_modulator_fc (basically a VCO) a periodic ramp.

You could generate a periodic ramp using gr.vector_source_f(foo, True)
where foo was a python sequence that defines the ramp.

You could of course also build a new block that derives from
gr_sync_block.

Eric