Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] random phase offset constantly changing with octoclock setup

[Pavan Srikrishna Yedavalli]

I am using USRP N210 with SBX daughterboards. All devices are connected to the octoclock ref and octoclock PPS. It would be nice to get phase alignment, but mere coherence-with-an-offset is sufficient if that offset stays constant across different runs of the file/flowgraph. Are you saying that that offset cannot be constant due to the randomness of the LO phase offset at each run? Thanks again.

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WHat specific hardware line-up do you have?

You have to use set_time_unknown_pps(), but also, if you want phase alignment (as opposed to mere coherence-with-an-offset), you need to use timed tuning commands across your systems. This will result in zero relative phase offset between boards, if you're using SBX or UBX (on the X310).  Note that this is phase between the boards, there's no way to make certain the the LO phase has a predictable offset with respect to external received signals, only that the two LO phases agree.

 

 

 

On 2016-07-05 15:26, Pavan Yedavalli wrote:

Hi,

 

Despite all of my boards being connected via the Octoclock (ref and pps), I am constantly getting different phase offsets every time I run a gnuradio flowgraph (or python file).

 

I am not sure why this is happening, but I do know that I need to call one of the functions, set_time_now() and/or set_time_unknown_pps(), to make sure all of them are synced. Which one am I supposed to call? I have been calling set_time_unknown_pps(), but I am getting the above/below problem with that, so maybe set_time_now() could be correct?

 

In general, I don't understand why I continually get a different random phase offset of all of the radios after every new flowgraph run. Shouldn't this offset be the same if I continue to transmit at the same frequency? Would one of the above functions fix that?

 

Hopefully that is clear. Thank you so much for the help.

 

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Pavan

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