Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Mixer Frequency of RFX900

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 10/16/2011 12:19 PM, Raullen Chai wrote:

Hi, All,

Kind of confusing about the IF of RFX900.

According to what Eric said (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2010-06/msg00113.html) the RFX boards directly converts UHF to baseband signal. Can it be understood as usrp.tune(f,...) sets the mixer frequency in the RFX board to be f.

Then, why do we need DDC? On the other hand, if the mixer frequency in the RFX board is set to be f1, while mixer in DDC is set to be f2, where f1+f2=f. How can we calculate/control f1 and f2?

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Best Regards
(Raullen) Qi Chai

With UHD, you get to either just pass the desired frequency, and let UHD take care of tuning the RF and DDC parts, or you can construct
  your own "tune_request_t", using uhd.tune_request().  This is available within recent GRC as well.

In general, PLL synthesizers have a finitely-small tuning granularity, so if the target frequency isn't a multiple of the resolution of the
  PLL synthesizer, the DDC is used to arrange for the desired target frequency to appear at baseband, otherwise the DDC frequency
  is zero.

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Marcus Leech
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Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
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