Hi Jason, 

In addition to Terry's suggestions, I would add that in order to decrease
the number of channels in your spectrometer you probably have to make a few
changes to your vector accumulator logic as well.

- Andrew


On 4/8/09 1:32 PM, "Terry Filiba" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jason,
> What version of the library are you using? I haven't had any trouble
> reconfiguring the green 7.1 blocks in my packetized astronomy signal
> processor design.
> Have you tried simulating the design by putting in a test tone through
> the adc and a scope on the pfb and fft output? If it won't simulate
> correctly you could try replacing the blocks with fresh versions
> copied from the Casper library (sometimes the block become corrupt
> when they redraw).
> Also you should double check the sync period for the new design. There
> is a memo on the Casper website that describes how to determing the
> sync period for the fft.
> -Terry
> 
> On Apr 8, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Jason Ray <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> All,
>> 
>> Randy and I are working on a low resolution version of our GUPPi DSP
>> designs.  Basically, we want to take our existing (and widely used)
>> 2048 channel design and reduce it to 128 channels, for the sake of
>> faster readout times.  We did this by simply changing the mask
>> parameters of the PFB and FFT blocks to give us 128 channels.  This
>> seems like a very simple thing but with the 128 channel design, we
>> are getting bad spectra.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 



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