On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Colby Boyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Related. It seems that this delay is not taking in account for the MM clock
> recovery block? It some cases, this delay will not matter (2 or 4 samples
> per symbol), but for other rates it will.
>
> --Colby



That's an excellent point. Any chance for a patch? :)

Tom




>  On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Tom Rondeau <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Colby Boyer <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Tom Rondeau <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Colby Boyer <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> Recently I've been using the MMSE interp filter. I found that when I
>>>>> shift a signal by a fractional amount of 0 (or anything really), the 
>>>>> signal
>>>>> goes way off! I would expect SOME difference, but not this much...
>>>>>
>>>>> Some example output.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mu:0 In:(-1.67869,0.480381) Out:(0.0418351,-0.16734)
>>>>>
>>>>> Mu:0 In:(-1.23772,-0.104519) Out:(0.16003,-0.115883)
>>>>>
>>>>> Mu:0 In:(-1.7598,-0.0618457) Out:(0.0986395,-0.33428)
>>>>>
>>>>> On the imgur links are two Re-Im scatter plots of a bpsk signal, one
>>>>> with the fractional shift of 0 and the other with a fractional shift of 
>>>>> 0.1
>>>>> The points with 'x' are the resampled points and points with 'o' is the
>>>>> original signal. As you can see, the mmse fractional interp more or less
>>>>> destroys the signal! Unless I'm using it wrong!?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any comments?
>>>>>
>>>>> imgur: http://imgur.com/a/w98SX top picture is 0 delay, bottom is 0.1
>>>>> delay.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> Colby
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Colby,
>>>> This block has been around for years without any changes, and I and
>>>> others have been successfully using it in various projects, so my guess is
>>>> that you have some misconception about what it's doing or what the
>>>> parameters are.
>>>>
>>>> You can see how it's used to simulate a timing offset in
>>>> gnuradio-core/src/lib/hier/gr_channel_model.cc where it's used inside of 
>>>> the
>>>> gr_fractional_interpolator_cc block. We also use it in the
>>>> gr_clock_recovery_mm_XX and gr_mpsk_receiver_cc.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Tom,
>>>
>>> I looked at the issue again and I was not taking in account the group
>>> delay of the interp filter (its 5 taps into the future or 3 in the past), so
>>> I was sampling a few taps out of phase! After a time shift, it passes the
>>> sanity check of '0.0' delay. Thanks for the response!
>>>
>>> --Colby
>>>
>>
>> Excellent, glad that worked out. I was pretty sure it works, but you never
>> know... good to have extra confirmation.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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