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| From: | khalid.el-darymli |
| Subject: | Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [USRP-users] How to correct for the drift in an (FMCW) Rx signal? |
| Date: | Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:21:05 -0330 |
In my job we have learned that lesson and fitted on all our DSP systems (you could call them direct digitizing SDRs, although we do not radio stuff) a cheap I2C temperature sensor. No big thing by means of software, costs and PCB space, but already proved being very useful. Could be considered for future products…
Ralph.
From: USRP-users [mailto:address@hidden] On Behalf Of Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users
Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 4:11 PM
To: khalid.el-darymli
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Subject: Re: [USRP-users] How to correct for the drift in an (FMCW) Rx signal?
On 12/02/2014 10:06 AM, khalid.el-darymli wrote:
Hi Marcus,
Is there a temperature sensor on-board the N200 unit? If not, does it support installing any such sensor?
Thanks.
No, and no.
But there are a tonne of USB-based temperature sensors out there. Google is your friend, etc.
Best regards,
Khalid
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Marcus D. Leech <address@hidden> wrote:
On 11/28/2014 03:41 PM, khalid.el-darymli wrote:
Back to my original question, what should I do to correct for this?
Thanks in advance.
Best,
Khalid
Khalid:
Thanks very much for the very-extensive data. My main concern, as one of the Ettus support team, was that there was something wrong with
the hardware, but the magnitude of both the apparent phase and magnitude drift is entirely consistent with analog-hardware temperature
effects, unrelated to clock stability, etc.
Coax cables, for example, will change their loss characteristics and *effective length* with temperature, so with precise hardware like USRPs, it's
easy to see these effects.
FMCW radar isn't my area of expertise, so hopefully others can comment on RX-processing strategies to deal with this, as it *must* also be a problem
with non-SDR FMCW radar implementations.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 12:08 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:
What is the magnitude of the frequency drift?
What is the magnitude of the gain drift?
What are you measuring backscatter *from*?
On 2014-11-28 10:14, khalid.el-darymli via USRP-users wrote:
Hi,
Given a set of synced (i.e., using external GPS REF/PPS), time-commanded and calibrated (i.e., through compensating for the phase/mag offset between digital Tx chirp prior to transmission and ADC'ed Rx signals) N200 devices with LFTX/LFRX daughterboards, that work with coherent LFMCW chirps, I am still seeing a tiny drift (both in the magnitude and frequency) of the calibrated back-scatter Rx chirp received at time t1 when compared to an Rx chirp received at an earlier time t0.
The more the N200 device runs (e.g., 5 hours), the greater the drift is. Obviously, this drift is pertinent to both the DAC and ADCs and the GPS referenced clocks of the N200 devices.
My questions are:1- Why I still see such drift although my devices are synced with an external GPS? and how do I correct for it?
2- Can the PLL Carrier Tracking block in GRC be used to track and correct for such a drift? If so, how do I set the max/min freq inputs for this block?3- Can AGC2 or AGC3 block be useful in this regard? If so, are there any examples to explain how the input parameters of these blocks can be set up?
Thanks.
Best regards,
Khalid
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