Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Arbitrary symbol rate transmission by USRP2.

[加藤義也]

Matt. Thank you very much for very prompt and highly accurate reply.

To have maximum number of options for considering with my limited resources.

Please advice me again.

-Change 100MHz crystal to 76.8MHz or 122.88MHz(lined up on Crystek CVHD950) can not be a option?

Will this idea give significant impact to USRP2?

#Please advice me If I could download FPGA ISE/EDK souces for analyze maximum frequency for each cores.

#Since the specified URL for download is not available now.

Why I thought this may be a option was because Scott tried "re-clocking" motherboard on below.

 >[Discuss-gnuradio] Motherboard Re-Clocking Question

 >scott scott

 >Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:49:56 -0700

 

In my understand 100MHz(CVHD950) is simply used for the drive DAC/ADC and is able to replace. 

Unfortunately, I could not reach to the document address specified in above mail. 

 

Best Regards.

2010年1月5日6:14 Matt Ettus <address@hidden>:

On 01/04/2010 07:29 AM, 加藤義也 wrote:

Arbitrary symbol rate transmission by USRP2.

I would like to transmit dqpsk 1,536,000sps with using benchmark_tx.py
and benchmark_rx.py thru USRP2.
Since USRP2 does have 100MHz as clock source.
With the clock, seems decimation and interpolation only allow me at
1,538,461sps(100MHz/65) is the nearest.

I thought I need to make the clock which familiar to the desired symbol
rate(1,536,000sps).
Which I modify FPGA's DCM clock manager to prescale 100MHz by 3125
(100,000,000/3125=32KHz) and
 multiply it by 384(12.288Msps = 8x 1,536,000) and feed it to the DAC/ADC.
I feel decimation and interpolation number is too huge for DCM.

Would someone please advice me out where I should tackling to at first?
Should I still go for modify DCM clock manager?

Do not modify the DCM.  That will not do what you want.  What you will need to do is make the software output samples at a rate which the USRP2 can handle.  There are 2 ways to do that:

1 - Create a modulator which will output a non-integer number of samples per symbol.

2 - Use the existing modulator, and add a rational resampler to your transmit chain to get to a useful rate.  The ratio between 1.536M and 100 M is 3125/48 or (5^5) / (2^4 * 3).  So you would need to interpolate by a total of 5^5 and decimate by 2^4*3.  You can get 5^2 in the USRP2 interpolator by setting the main interpolator to 25.  This means you would be supplying 4 MS/s over the ethernet to the USRP2.

You would then generate you sample stream at 5 samples per symbol, giving you 7.68 MS/s.  Now the ratio between 7.68 MS/s and 4 MS/s is only 25/48.  So you would use the GNU Radio rational resampler block to do this sample rate conversion, which is not hard.

Matt

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