Hi Ernest,

> Can GRC go Nanoseconds?
GRC is just a frontend to baseband sample processing blocks. So there's
not really an answer to this. If you had a device that would be giving
you 2GS/s, yes, and if you can build an application that estimates the
phase of an incoming signal, then also, maybe:

well, first of all, you will need to bring your receiver to an exact
time, within whatever "exact" means to you. For USRPs, you might use the
GPSDOs, and further timing refinement tricks (see Johannes Schmitz' talk
at FOSDEM this year).
Then, you'll need to determine a reference phase for your downconverted
signal. Then, basically with the methods of interferometry, you can
determine a sub-sample accurate estimate of the receive signal timing.

There's not a "ready to use" for your problem, because it depends on
such an enormous number of specifics of your problem (chief amongst
these hardware, accuracy demands, observation time, SNR, modulation of
the CW). If your signal is really just a continuous wave, you'll always
be signal-period ambiguous, unless you have another source of timing
information.

It might be really worthwhile pointing you to the GNU Radio Guided
Tutorials; you seem to have quite a good idea of what you want to
implement, but your understanding of what GNU Radio does, and doesn't
do, where the boundaries between GRC, GR, a flow graph and the whole SDR
system lie might be lacking a bit behind that:
https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Guided_Tutorials

Best regards,
Marcus

On 03/13/2016 07:50 AM, ERNEST MATEY wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am running a signal analysis on GRC. 
> I will receive satellite CW signal and I want to know the exact
> accurate time I received the CW signal.  I'm expecting the CW signal
> as a sudden burst ‎. 
>
> What methods can I use in my GRC. Which blocks or Flow graph can I do
> to achieve this?
>
> I am looking for accuracy in Nanoseconds. 
> How can I achieve this? Can GRC go Nanoseconds?
>
> Thank you all GRC experts for helping!
> Ernest
>
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>
>
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