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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] max throughput USB 2.0
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Marcus D. Leech |
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] max throughput USB 2.0 |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:42:06 -0400 |
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Vincenzo Pellegrini wrote:
> Maximum sustained throughput that we have achieved so far, given our
> chipsets and the USRP's cypress usb interface
> is 32 MB/sec that yields, at 16 bit sample resolution:
>
> 32M / (2 *2) = 8Msps (complex) ==>8MHz bandwidth (Nyquist)
>
> 1 factor 2 is for I+Q channels
> the other is for 16bit (=2bytes) sample resolution
>
> of course, at the price of halving sample resolution you can get
> double bandwidth
>
> vincenzo
>
Using 8-bit samples, and a rather beastly machine, I can sustain 16Msps
for my SETI spectrometer application.
--
Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator, Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org