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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] /gnuradio-examples/python/digital/transmit_path.p
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Eric Blossom |
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] /gnuradio-examples/python/digital/transmit_path.py and bitrate Question? |
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Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:12:52 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:28:08PM -0400, w w wrote:
> What's confusing for me is that I see the bitrate variable (it seems to have
> a profound importantance) but it looks to me like it never gets assigned to
> a block. The following is line 119 from transmit_path.py. In my mind the
> function of lines 119-121, is to assign/derive values for bitrate, interp
> and SPS from pick_tx_bitrate.....Is this correct? Of course it looks
> like bitrate stays the same unless it goes above 4 mbs.
> I don't see where the bitrate is being assigned to either the
> packet transmitter or the modulator (which seems to me the most logical
> place to use bitrate). I see where interpolation is being set for the usrp
> and I also see where sample per symbol is being used in various places.
> With my mind looking from all angles, the only thing I come up with is that
> interpolation is being used to control bitrate...but that don't make
> sense.
Why not? This is a _software_ radio. Everything scales with the
sample rate, and the interpolation value sets the complex baseband
sample rate.
Eric