Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ./usrp_rx_cfile capture and ./benchmark_rx capture differs in bit-rate set even with same parameters

[Eric Blossom]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 07:17:45PM -0400, Bishal Thapa wrote:
> Dear list,
>   I have a question. I just want to make sure I am not hallucinating infront
> of my comp here. I run this script as follows:
> 1. ./usrp_rx_cfile.py -f 2.4G -d 128 foo.dat @ the receiver
> => I get, the bitrate set to 500k

It looks like you are confusing bitrate and sample rate.
There's no "bitrate" with usrp_rx_cfile.  What you get is a sample
rate of 500k samples/s

> But, when I run this script as follows:
> 2. //benchmark_rx.py -f 2.4G -d 128 @ the receiver
> => I get the bitrate set to 250k.

By default you're using BPSK (1 bit / symbol), but the receiver needs
at least two samples / symbol to handle synchronization issues.  Thus
you've got a baseband sample rate of 500kS/s, but a bit rate of
250kb/s

> Even though, both has decimate rate set to the same, 128.
> 
> Problem is, I am running "./benchmark_tx.py -f 2.4G -i 256
> --from-file=foo.txt" on the receiver side, and it sets my bitrate to 250k as
> expected. I would like to get the same bitrate at the receiver side when
> running "usrp_rx_cfile capture [see 1]", with (interpolation/decimate) still
> being equal to 2. Because I want 2 samples per symbol. Can somebody tell me
> if there is anything obvious about this that i am doing wrong or a parameter
> configuration that I can pass which will do what i need. Let me know if I
> need to give more details of the purpose. Thank you very much.


Eric