Re: Doppler

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On 01/01/2024 07:51, Jiya Johnson wrote:
> Yes I want to use 10GHz/s

Hi all,

Besides the physical considerations that Marcus and Marcus have
mentioned, I *think* it should be possible to adapt the flowgraph you
attached in your first message to generate correctly a chirp waveform at
10GHz/s as you could have in some radars. (Here the "*think*" comes
because most of these blocks use float parameters rather than double,
which for some specific applications can be insufficient. Here I think
this won't be a problem, but I'm not sure until I see it working).

The thing you need to do is to calculate some numbers and use a sensible
sample rate for what you want (there is no reasonable way you're going
to get a 10 GHz/s sweep in a 1 ksps sample rate, which is what you have
in your flowgraph). For instance, say that your chirp waveform sweeps a
bandwidth of 100 MHz. At 10 GHz/s, it takes 10 ms to sweep 100 MHz. This
gives the period of your sawtooth. Let's say you use a sample rate of
200 Msps, which is good to represent a 100 MHz bandwidth signal with IQ
sampling.

Then you need to set the frequency of the sawtooth to 100 Hz ( = 1 / 10
ms). If you want the sawtooth output to have units of Hz, its amplitude
should be 100e6 (to achieve a 100 MHz sweep).

The formulas in the flowgraph you have all work correctly to this
purpose, but to use them, you nee to set the drift_rate to 10e9 (10
GHz/s), the drift_duration to 10e-3 (10 ms, see above), and the sample
rate needs to be at least somewhat higher than 100e6 (say 200e6).

Best,
Daniel.