Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] "Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please."

Hi Markus,

Well, the shortest possible pulse has duration 1/sampling rate and can
be sent with

0…010…0

Now, that pulse has incredibly little power; and thus, the LO leakage
and all negative effects will probably make that unnecessary hard to
detect. I really recommend pulse compression:

Can't you just generate a random vector of +1/-1, use it as transmit
signal (embedded in a few 0s to allow the USRP to ramp up & flush out
remaining samples in the DSP chain)? In the receiver, you'd want to
correlate against that sequence – and luckily, correlation and
convolution are the same but for direction (and complex conjugate, but
1 and -1 are pretty real, so, nothing to conjugate), so just use a FIR
filter with the same sequence, just reversed().

You'd get the same resolution (because the cross-correlation would
reduce to a single sample, too, as long as your random sequence isn't
periodic), but you get n times the power, hence n times the SNR, n
being the length of the sequence.

Best regards,
Marcus

PS: Have you played around with gr-radar?
https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/radar/
On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 14:57 +0200, Markus Heller wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I wonder how I could generate one single shortest possible pulse on my
> USRP2 with GNURadio.
>
> Normally all the blocks would always generate an entire sequence, a
> continuous signal.
>
> I want to generate (and analyze) the shortest possible signal.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> The background: I want to generate a specific signal and record it's
> reflections. Some very basic radar experiments.
>
> Thanks!
>
> BR / vy73
> Markus
> dl8rds
>
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