Thank you all! I've fixed this problem.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Jeff Brower <[email protected]>wrote:

> Milo-
>
> > I found sine waves will be terribly distorted when they are generated at
> > relatively high frequency(above 5khz) from signal source in GRC. I set
> the
> > sampl_rate of scope sink to 2Ghz(high enough, I think), and there are
> always
> > spikes on generated sine wave. This problem is especially distinct when
> > generated sine wave reaches 20Khz and the waveform displayed on scope
> sink
> > is almost "saw wave". There will be nothing to dispaly if I keep on
> > increasing frequency to 1Mhz. Is there anybody who met this problem
> before?
> > or it might only be the display problem in GRC? I guess it might be the
> > problem of scope sink which could not achieve that high sweep (sampling)
> > rate even I set it correctly.
> >
> > Attached are snapshot of generated sine waves at different frequencies:
>
> Your plots are probably fine, depending on what is your sampling rate (Fs).
>  Think of it this way:  if you display a
> sine wave near Fs/2 then you only have 2 samples for each sine wave period
> (1 per peak) and connecting those dots with
> straight lines on a scope graph will look like "spikes", to use your
> terminology.
>
> In the case of your 20 kHz plot, it looks to me like you might have 3 or 4
> or so samples per sine wave period, so my
> guess is your Fs is somewhere between 60 and 80 kHz.
>
> -Jeff
>
>
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