Thank you very much. :)

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Jason Uher <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mir M. Ali <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In GRC I have a complex sine source with amplitude 10 and frequency
> 2000Hz
> > sampled at 4000Hz as a input to the costas loop through a throttle block.
> > The max and min frequency used is +/- 0.157rad/sample which is 100Hz
> > /sample. When I see the output on scope and FFT scope i see peak at 0Hz
> in
> > the FFt scope but on the oscilloscope I see a sine wave with amplitude 10
> on
> > the Inphase component and 0 in the Q component. Why?
> > The output is shown in the figure.
> > http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/7879/snapshot1u.jpg
> > Thanks
>
> I assume you are using a bpsk costas loop (m=2).  In bpsk all of the
> data is in the real portion of the signal, therefore any amplitude in
> the Q is considered error.  In order to recover the data, the loop
> rotates the data so the Q component to 0, and the I component is
> presumably +/-1.
>
> If you were to do the same with a qpsk loop (m=4), you should see both
> components looking like a saw wave.
>
> Additionally, a standard costas loop assumes that the data has already
> been sampled.  Your samples per 'symbol' is higher than 1 in this
> case, and the loop output would not be predicable if you were sending
> data.
>
> Jason
>
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