Hi Paulina

I would check the fft_shift as a first culprit. Try setting it to -1 (shift
every stage) and see if that helps.

- Danny

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 9:55 AM, David MacMahon <dav...@astro.berkeley.edu>
wrote:

> Hi, Paulina,
>
> That spectrum has way too much structure in it. Something is not working
> right. I'm not that familiar with tut3, but if there is a way to get a
> snapshot of samples from the ADC it would be good to verify whether the
> data from the ADC looks reasonable.  Like most systems, the PFB is GIGO
> (garbage in, garbage out) so it's good to verify that what's going on is
> not garbage.
>
> HTH,
> Dave
>
> On Nov 10, 2016, at 09:36, Paulina Unanue <unanu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all
>
>
> i'm working with the Tutorial 3: Wideband Spectrometer, with ROACH 1, i'm
> using a signal generation to feed the ADC(2x1000-8 sintonize at 1 GHz) with
> a tone (-40 dbm 200 MHz)  but i'm obtaining a high noise floor,i had
> reduced the gain
>
> as recommended in the instructions ( "decrease the value (for a -10dBm
> input 0x100)  to not saturate the spectrum" ) trying different values,
> but the same problem persists. Any idea that may be causing this?.
>
>
> To see the graphic, please check the attached.
>
> best wishes
>
> <graf.jpg>
>
>


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