Thank you so much Ian.
This explanation makes it clear to me.

Best,
Wahhab

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Ian Buckley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wahhab,
> No USRP supports the configuration you are trying to achieve.
> The USRP2 (and N210) have a fixed ADC sample rate of 100MHz.
> The B210/E310 uses an oversampling Sigma-delta ADC that can sample as high
> as ~650MHZ. It will *always* oversample relative to the "sample rate" you
> request.
> The X310 uses a programmable sample rate but was designed and tested only
> for sample rates ~100Mhz->200MHz.
> Currently sold daughter cards all have fixed baseband analog LPF of either
> 40MHz or 160MHz bandwidth with the intent of removing analog aliasing. The
> sole exception is Basic RX as already been pointed out.
>
> You could experiment with aliasing in the digital domain by using the
> USRP(s) you have available at their highest capture bandwidth and
> decimating without filtering in your own SDR application.
>
> If you really need to alias in the analog domain then you need to build
> your own H/W, or more easily, purchase a reference design for a wideband
> ADC from ADI/TI etc.
>
> -Ian
>
>
> On Dec 30, 2017, at 3:35 PM, Ron Economos via USRP-users <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> The bladeRF SDR can easily be configured to show aliasing. Here's a 6 MHz
> wide OFDM signal with the transmit filter set to 28 MHz. You can also see
> the sin(x)/x response of the DAC.
> <alias28.png>
>
> Ron
>
> On 12/30/2017 03:14 PM, Jeff Long via USRP-users wrote:
>
> If you're trying to recreate Mike Ossmann's Bluetooth aliasing experiment,
> he explains what he did here:
>
> https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/gr-bluetooth/blob/master/doc/
> README.aliasing
>
> On 12/29/2017 08:26 PM, Wahhab Albazrqaoe via USRP-users wrote:
>
> Thank you Jeff..
>
> Are these filters in software? Or fpga? Is there any function that we play
> with to get aliasing? i.e. how to disable such filters?
>
>
> Thank you
>
>   Wahhab
>
>
> The B2XX bandwidth can be adjusted, but that is in addition to other
> filters designed to remove aliases based on the sample rate.
>
>
> On Dec 29, 2017 11:57 AM, "Wahhab Albazrqaoe" <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi John,
>     My question is about USRP B210, can we use it to set RF bw as 50MHz
>     and then sample using 2MHz sampling rate?
>
>     Thanks
>     Wahhab
>
>     On Dec 29, 2017 11:54 AM, "John Shields" <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Wahhab,
>         As Kyeong had already pointed out, in this configuration, the bw
>         limiting factor is the daughtercard. For the SBX the bandwidth
>         is 40 MHz. There are other Ettus products covering the same
>         frequency range which have wider bandwidth (80,120,160 MHz) but
>         they seem to only plug into the X-series of products.
>         https://www.ettus.com/product/category/Daughterboards
>         <https://www.ettus.com/product/category/Daughterboards>
> <https://www.ettus.com/product/category/Daughterboards>
>         Kind Regards,
>         John
>         *From:* Wahhab Albazrqaoe <mailto:[email protected]>
> <[email protected]>
>         *Sent:* Saturday, December 30, 2017 4:39 AM
>         *To:* Kyeong Su Shin <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]>
>         *Cc:* John Shields <mailto:[email protected]>
> <[email protected]> ;
>         [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> <[email protected]>
>         *Subject:* Re: [USRP-users] Enable aliasing using USRP
>         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]
>         <mailto:[email protected]> <[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]
>             <mailto:[email protected]>
> <[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]
>                 <mailto:[email protected]> <[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
>                     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_frequency>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_frequency>
>                                 Kind Regards,
>                     John
>                     *From:* Wahhab Albazrqaoe via USRP-users
>                     <mailto:[email protected]>
> <[email protected]>
>                     *Sent:* Friday, December 29, 2017 3:04 PM
>                     *To:* [email protected]
>                     <mailto:[email protected]>
> <[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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