Dear Kyeong,
Thank you for the reply.
How about using USRP B210, do you think we can get aliasing by setting the
RF bw=50MHz and sample at 2MHz?

Thank you.
Wahhab

On Dec 29, 2017 12:19 AM, "Kyeong Su Shin" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Wahhab,
>
> If I recall correctly, you can *not* change the bandwidth of SBX (always
> 40MHz), and the sampling rate of the USRP2 (always 100MS/s). What you are
> actually setting by setting --rate 2e6 is the decimation ratio. The signals
> will be always sampled at 100MS/s, and then decimated by the decimator
> within the FPGA.
>
> It is still possible to cause aliasing - one way is to just sample at a
> fast sampling rate and then decimate by yourself. An other way would be
> tinkering the digital filters used by the decimator, but I am not sure if
> there are good APIs to do that. I am pretty sure that rx_samples_to_file is
> not suitable for the task, though (correct me if I am wrong). That is just
> an example program.
>
> Regards,
> Kyeong Su Shin
>
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Wahhab Albazrqaoe via USRP-users <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>> Thank you for your reply.
>> We would like to create aliasing. This means that we should set ADC to
>> sample at speed less than Nyquist rate.
>> In our setting, we target RF front end to be 50MHz and ADC speed is 2MHz.
>> The question is how to do it? We use some commands (as shown in my
>> previous email) but seems not working as expected, i.e. RF front end
>> bandwidth is still 2MHz.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:24 PM, John Shields <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Wahhab,
>>>                    This is a fairly basic issue – the ‘bandwidth’ (if
>>> that is really what you are really meaning) is related to the sample_rate
>>> by The Nyquist  Frequency
>>>
>>>                               https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
>>> Nyquist_frequency
>>>
>>>                                          Kind Regards,
>>>
>>>                                                   John
>>>
>>> *From:* Wahhab Albazrqaoe via USRP-users <[email protected]>
>>> *Sent:* Friday, December 29, 2017 3:04 PM
>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>> *Subject:* [USRP-users] Enable aliasing using USRP
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>> I have question about how to create aliasing using USRP.
>>> Basically, I have USRP2 with SBX (with recent installations of GnuRadio
>>> and UHD).
>>> I would like to set the bandwidth of the RF front end to 50 MHz, and use
>>> 2MHz of sampling rate (ADC speed).
>>> I am using the following command:
>>> sudo ./rx_samples_to_file --args addr=192.168.10.2
>>> master_clock_rate=50e6 --freq=2460e6 --bw=50e6 --rate 2e6 --gain=50
>>> --wirefmt sc8 --nsamps 0
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Problem: it seems to me that the system (GnuRadio/USRP) observes only
>>> 2MHz of RF front end bandwdith. How do I know this? Ans: I compare such
>>> settings with the following settings:
>>> sudo ./rx_samples_to_file --args addr=192.168.10.2
>>> master_clock_rate=50e6 --freq=2460e6 --bw=50e6 --rate 50e6 --gain=50
>>> --wirefmt sc8 --nsamps 0
>>>
>>> The later setting seems to be actual 50 MHz of Rf front end.
>>>
>>> Any comments and advices on how to create aliasing using USRP are
>>> appreciate.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Wahhab
>>>
>>>
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