Alexander

Is this a firmware update or UHD driver update? If firmware would it be possible to upload an image?

Regards

Craig

Begin forwarded message:

From: umtrx-request@lists.osmocom.org
Date: 19 March 2013 20:36:34 GMT
To: umtrx@lists.osmocom.org
Subject: UmTRX Digest, Vol 9, Issue 16
Reply-To: umtrx@lists.osmocom.org

Send UmTRX mailing list submissions to
   umtrx@lists.osmocom.org

To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
   http://lists.osmocom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/umtrx
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
   umtrx-request@lists.osmocom.org

You can reach the person managing the list at
   umtrx-owner@lists.osmocom.org

When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of UmTRX digest..."


Today's Topics:

  1. Tx signal quality improvement (Alexander Chemeris)


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message: 1
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:33:29 +0400
From: Alexander Chemeris <alexander.chemeris@gmail.com>
To: umtrx <umtrx@lists.osmocom.org>
Subject: Tx signal quality improvement
Message-ID:
   <CABmJbFV4C0_WBCBuj61U8_2bQjm9x049ciB0yYQDjJdoHxiNGg@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Hi all,

I've found an issue with out Tx configuration of LMS which led to
constant phase rotation of the transmitted signal. After fixing this
issue I get quite better signal quality on transmit side. I advise
everyone to update to the most recent UHD on the host side to benefit
from this improvement.

The reason for the issue was that we used the wrong polarity of TX_
IQ_SEL. As a result, LMS transmitted I from one sample and Q from the
other sample. One of the visible results was a huge I/Q imbalance on
Tx which made it impossible to use multi-ARFCN configurations. We've
solved this issue in software by setting tx_fsinc_polarity and
tx_interleave_mode to proper values in LMS configuration registers.

Attached screenshots from our E4406A shows signal quality transmitted
by OpenBTS we could have now. Tests are performed with "laurent"
branch of Fairwaves, compiled with SPS (samples per symbol) set to 4.
DC offset and I/Q imbalance are calibrated.

screen2.gif, screen3.gif - constellation and phase error when LO
leakage is at the center of the signal spectrum, i.e. with no LO
offset on Tx.

screen4.gif, screen5.gif - constellation and phase error when DC
offset is when LO leakage is shifted to 300kHz away from the signal
spectrum center, i.e, with 300kHz LO offset on Tx.

screen6.gif - phase error per symbol plots for the same settings as
with screen4.gif and screen5.gif.

When we implement a true GMSK transmitter we should be able to get
even better phase noise parameters, meaning excellent downlink signal
quality. But even this values are much better than required by the
Standard.

--
Regards,
Alexander Chemeris.
CEO, Fairwaves LLC / ??? ???????
http://fairwaves.ru
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: screen2.gif
Type: image/gif
Size: 14989 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/umtrx/attachments/20130320/7863d1f1/attachment.gif>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: screen3.gif
Type: image/gif
Size: 14347 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/umtrx/attachments/20130320/7863d1f1/attachment-0001.gif>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: screen4.gif
Type: image/gif
Size: 14629 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/umtrx/attachments/20130320/7863d1f1/attachment-0002.gif>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: screen5.gif
Type: image/gif
Size: 15218 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/umtrx/attachments/20130320/7863d1f1/attachment-0003.gif>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: screen6.gif
Type: image/gif
Size: 20776 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/umtrx/attachments/20130320/7863d1f1/attachment-0004.gif>

------------------------------

_______________________________________________
UmTRX mailing list
UmTRX@lists.osmocom.org
http://lists.osmocom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/umtrx


End of UmTRX Digest, Vol 9, Issue 16
************************************