Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FM demodulation of a real signal

[Robert McGwier]

It will not be possible to recover the signal if the real signal is at 
zero IF (and predetection) so we will assume that it is not at zero.

The simplest possible FM detector is a zero crossing counter.  That is,  
you output a signal that is proportional to the distance between zero 
crossings.  After filtration,  this will provide a usable FM detection.  
It works much better if you do a  bandpass filter first, count distance 
between zero crossings and then lpf the "distance" signals.  The zero 
crossing should not be the number of samples. 

Given a sample N and N+1 where we have a zero crossing between,  one can do

(S(N+1)-S(N))
---------------     = slope
          1

is the slope and the zero crossing then is the solution to:


slope*Xnew + S(n) = 0

or

Xnew = - S(n)/slope.   Where we have decided to find the place where the 
connecting line crosses.

Xnew - Xold is the zero crossing distance and is output as the detected FM.

now set

Xold = Xnew and go do it again.

Bob


Eric Blossom wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:44:59PM +0200, Matteo Campanella wrote:
>   
> > Hello, I am quite stuck at a problem, that is, how to demodulate a FM
> > signal that is NOT in complex form using existing gnuradio blocks. The
> > quadrature demodulator works only with complex input; I have tried to
> > build an analytic signal out of my real one, but the result of the
> > demodulation is then quite poor.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> > Matteo
> >     
>
> Is your real signal at a non-zero IF?
>
> If so, just multiply by a complex sinusoid to translate to baseband,
> then use existing code path.  We come from the complex is simple
> school of signal processing...
>
>
>   


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