I want to use COMPLEX_INT16 in hopes of generating non-normalized fixed point 
data using UHD.  I ultimately want to send this data over to the DSP on the 
E100, if I receive the data as COMPLEX_FLOAT32 then UHD is performing 

fixed-point -> floating point  and I will be performing floating-point -> 
fixed-point -> floating-point feeding into the FPGA.  Ultimately I want

FPGA ->fixed-point -> DSP -> fixed-point -> FPGA

instead of 

FPGA ->fixed-point -> floating-point -> fixed_point -> DSP -> fixed-point -> 
floating-point -> fixed-point -> FPGA

however in my flowgraph I want to be able to use gr.probe_avg_mag_sqrd() and a 
scalar multiples before feeding into the DSP and it fails when I use  
COMPLEX_INT16 because of data type confusion

al fayez

 


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Blum <[email protected]>
To: discuss-gnuradio <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, Sep 12, 2011 1:18 pm
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Converting complex-short to complex-float with 
UHD






On 09/12/2011 10:00 AM, Almohanad Fayez wrote:

> 

> I can't seem to find a direct way of typcasting COMPLEX_INT16 using

> gr-uhd as complex_float.  It seems that gnuradio assumes that a

> complex type is composed of floats by default which causes issues

> when I'm using gr-uhd, is there a direct way to do complex_short to

> complex_float conversion or should I just make a custom block for

> that?  thanks.

> 



The output signature for COMPLEX_INT16 is a vector of shorts length 2.

You can covert this to complex float with a vector_to_stream block, and

then a ishort_to_complex block.



BTW, if you want complex floats, it makes way more sense to just use

COMPLEX_FLOAT32. The real use of COMPLEX_INT16 is if you have a block

that produces or consumes complex shorts. Otherwise its just extra overhead.



-josh





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