[hpsdr] Bandwith and decimation questions

[Maximo EA1DDO_HK1DX]

Hi,

Jeremy, first of all, thanks for your answer.

Then,
I understand that the decimation process is taken at the Mercury card, so I can guess that the Ozy/Metis is getting the decimated data (I don´t know the decimation proportion).

What I don´t understand good is "There are three fixed sample rates that will come out of Ozy or Metis:  48000, 96000 and 192000".
I thought that 48000, 96000 and 192000 are radio spectrum bandwith, but I did not know that radio bandwith is same as transmission bandwith. I mean, Mercury´s sample rate is always same, 130 Mb/s.

I need some more light on that...

Thanks

                                               73, Maximo - EA1DDO




> Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Bandwith and decimation questions
> From: mcdermj at xenotropic.com
> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:25:16 -0700
> CC: hpsdr at openhpsdr.org
> To: ea1ddo at hotmail.com
> 
> On Mar 22, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Maximo EA1DDO_HK1DX wrote:
> 
> > There are some things in my head not really clear.
> > 
> > Are next facts right?
> > LT2208 at 16 bit and 130 million samples per second; 16 x 130.000.000 = 2080 mega bits/second
> 
> That's about correct.
> 
> > Where decimation takes place, at Mercury or at Ozy/Metis?
> 
> My understanding is that the decimation and filtering happens on Mercury.  Check out the Mercury software block diagram at:
> 
> http://openhpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Mercury_Verilog%286%29_1.jpg
> 
> Notice the CIC blocks to decimate. 
> 
> > Because if decimation takes place at Ozy/Mercury it means that are 2080 Mbits/s on the Atlas bus. Is that right?
> 
> See Above.  The decimation is on the Mercury boards.
> 
> > Then, USB2 from Ozy has a continue bandwith around of 250 Mb/s. But Metis will be around 960 Mb/s.
> > Will decimation adapt to the Metis bandwith?
> 
> No.  There are three fixed sample rates that will come out of Ozy or Metis:  48000, 96000 and 192000.  On PowerSDR those are, mildly deceptively, set in the Audio tab.  On Heterodyne they're just labeled as "sampling rate" on the control panel.
> 
> > I mean, if decimation adapts the output to the existing bandwith. 
> > More bandwith plus less decimation means more data on the PC, so the spectrum we see/hear will be better ??
> 
> No.  Again, you get three fixed bandwidths on each "receiver" you get from the hardware, so there are no immediate advantages to more bandwidth.
> 
> This doesn't mean it's this way forever, though.  Right now, with the "multiple receiver" architecture, a single Mercury can give you two 192k pieces of bandwidth.  Likewise, Joe's diversity work can give you 192k pieces of bandwidth off of multiple boards.
> 
> What I'd kinda like to see is an option to get entire ham bands at 2xbandwidth samplerate.  So, for example on 20m I'd like to see a way to get:
> 
> Frequency: 14.000 - 14.350
> Bandwidth: 350 kHz
> Sample Rate: 700 kSps
> Data Rate: 16.8 Mbps
> 
> I did some "back of the envelope" calculations and covering the entire US ham band allocations simultaneously at two times the bandwidth sample rate is around 361.8Mbps.  If you exclude 6m, you get only 169.8Mbps.  There should be plenty of bandwidth available on Metis to do this.  Whether your computer can handle the datarate may be another story.  I'm hoping to learn enough Verilog to be dangerous one day and to try to implement such a system.
> 
> > I have not really clear how it works, thats the reason for my questions.
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > 73, Maximo - EA1DDO
> 
> --
> Jeremy McDermond (NH6Z)
> Xenotropic Systems
> mcdermj at xenotropic.com
> 
> 
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