On 07/04/2013 11:51 PM, Karan Talasila wrote:
Hi Josh,
can you explain how and why the frequency translation
occurs? secondly when the same basic tx chip is used on a
usrp N210, the translation occurs at 50Mhz and after. So for
USRP N210, the entire range from 0-250 Mhz is represented by
alternating between -50Mhz to +50Mhz. Why is it that way?
The BASIC_RX and LF_RX have no downconversion hardware in them at
all. They are basically just "buffers" for the ADCs. The BASIC_RX
has an
analog reponse that starts to fall off at about 250Mhz, which is
why it's rated to 250Mhz.
In the USRP1/B100/E1XX systems, the sampling clock is at 64MHz by
default. That means the first aliases start to show up at the 1st
Nyquist
frequency of 32Mhz (half of sample rate). Similarly in the N2XX,
which a 100MHz sampling clock, those aliases start to show up at
50Mhz.
My suggestion would be to look into so-called bandpass sampling, and
also, importantly, Nyquist Sampling Theorem.
--
Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org
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