On 11/17/2010 03:05 PM, Steven Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Marcus D. Leech <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 11/17/2010 12:43 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > > > > What I'm seeing is that the magnitudes (as seen in the number > sink) coming off the source, even with roughly 75dB of gain ahead > are roughly 0.002 to 0.003 when I'm using 400KHz sampling, > and roughly 0.0006 to 0.0007 when the bandwidth is 250KHz. If you > process the numbers as voltages, then we're talking a roughly > 10dB drop in apparent average power level by reducing the > bandwidth > by less than 3dB. Both 400Khz and 250KHz use a decimation > that is both even, and a multiple of 4, so they should be > using exactly > the same filter sequence in the decimator, correct? > > Marcus, you're a blithering idiot who should routinely be denied > air. You have clearly conflated the decimation/bandwidth numbers and > erroneously come to the conclusion that they should use the same > half-band filter lineup. They don't, you stupid, sorry excuse for > an advanced lifeform you. God, can you even tie your shoes > reliably? Let's see, 250KHz uses a decimation of 400, which uses both > half-bands in the FPGA because it's both even and a multiple of > 4, whereas 400KHz uses a decimation of 250, which is even, but not a > multiple of four, and so only uses a single half-band. So > *naturally*, the numbers won't "add up" between the two bandwidths. > > Frikkin' hell man, get a clue would you? Before I come over there > and whack you upside the head with a gnarly-great clue-by-four. > > :-) :-) :-) > > > Don't be so hard on yourself...many of us would have still been stumped :) > It's definitely not obvious/intuitive (to me, at least) that changing > the decimation rate just slightly results in adding a whole 'nother > additional set of filtering. > > Shouldn't the half-band filters have unity-gain in the pass-band? > > -Steven Yes, they definitely should have unity-gain within the passband, but they have a Bessel-like response as far as I recall. The edges have a 10dB roll-off, so my guess is that the convolution of the response of those (extended) edges gives us the apparent 8-10dB difference in average power level between 400KHz and 250KHz (or more generally, decimination-by-factor-of-four vs decimation-by-other-even factor). The difference in detected power that one would "expect" for this bandwidth difference is roughly 2dB, all else being equal. Clearly, "all else isn't equal".
Matt would know for sure. -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org
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