Fft_vcc & file_sink

Hello!

I’m new to GNU Radio and USRP.

I’ve done this simple code below.

class topBlock(gr.top_block):
def init(self):
gr.top_block.init(self)

fftsize = 256
udecim = 256

mywin = window.blackmanharris(fftsize)
fft = gr.fft_vcc(fftsize, True, mywin)

signal = usrp.source_c(0,udecim)

ss2v = gr.stream_to_vector(gr.sizeof_gr_complex, fftsize)
v2ss = gr.vector_to_stream(gr.sizeof_gr_complex, fftsize)

c2f = gr.complex_to_float(fftsize)

v_sink = gr.vector_sink_c()
f_sink = gr.file_sink(gr.sizeof_gr_complex, "fft.data")

self.connect(signal, ss2v, fft, v2ss, f_sink)

def main():
print “Initilizing…”
tb = topBlock()
print “Flowgraph start…”
tb.run()
print “Exiting…”

if name == “main”:
main()

The thing is that I don’t know what kind of values is the fft giving to
the
f_sink,
because if a load them on octave using “y=read_complex_binary(…)”, a
run
plot(abs(y(1:256))
it does come close to what I saw using the GUI version.
Without looking at the scales there should be a spike in the middle of
the
graph.

http://www.nabble.com/file/p22457062/scrsht.png

Shouldn’t the first 256 values be the first fft computed from the
flowgraph?

Thank you in advance!


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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:02 AM, E. Ornelas [email protected] wrote:

   print "Flowgraph start.."

plot(abs(y(1:256))
it does come close to what I saw using the GUI version.
Without looking at the scales there should be a spike in the middle of the
graph.

http://www.nabble.com/file/p22457062/scrsht.png

Shouldn’t the first 256 values be the first fft computed from the flowgraph?

The display (GUI) is probably shifting the output such that 0Hz is in
the center, and you span from -Fs/2 to Fs/2 as opposed to a 0Hz to Fs
span.

Take a gander at fftshift() in octave.

Thank you in advance!

You’re welcome and good luck.

Brian