After some further investiagation, it appears that this may be a slow, long
term
analog drift in the cosine wave source (perhaps due to single precision
math?). The
voltage values aren't the same at each point in the waveform - they slowly
drift
over many minutes of computer runtime.

-- Tom, N5EG



On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Tom McDermott <[email protected]> wrote:

> In working on some waveform sampling tests, have encountered an apparent
> drift
> between two gnuradio sources that are run at the same rate.  I've tried to
> structure
> the flowgraph so that the QT GUI does not get involved in the exact sample
> count
> integrity between two flow graph paths.
>
> The attached flowgraph constructs a sampling pulse near the zero-crossing
> time of
> the cosine wave, then displays that sampled analog value.  Over time, the
> cosine
> source appears to be slipping in time compared to the square wave source.
> The
> analog sampling pulse samples the cosine source 'near' the zero crossing.
> But with
> increasing run-time of the flow graph, it appears to be drifting off. I'm
> at a loss to
> explain this.
>
> Attached is the simplest GRC flowgraph that demonstrates the effect.  It
> needs to
> run for a few tens of seconds before the analog sampled value starts to
> grow.
> The time sample at 6 milliseconds is the sampled analog value.  Even if
> it's not exactly
> zero, it should remain relative stable in analog value.
>
> Any advice on what I might be doing wrong here?
>
> -- Tom, N5EG
>
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