Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Josh: suggestion for GRC

[Eric Blossom]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 04:48:55PM -0400, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> [Like you need suggestions :-) ]
> 
> When setting the USRP word-length format, it would be useful to set the
> SHIFT and WIDTH parameters separately in the
>   USRP objects (both single and dual).
> 
> The valid values for WIDTH are {0,1}
> The valid values for SHIFT are {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15}
> 
> I've been naively using width=8, shift=8, because my fuzzy memory left
> me with the impression that the only
>   valid value for shift was 8.  That no longer appears to be the case,
> and at least one of my radio astronomy

Marcus, in the code in the trunk, the shift value is currently
ignored.  The the valid combinations of WIDTH and SHIFT are
{16,0} and {8, 8}.

See usrp/fpga/sdr_lib/rx_buffer.v for the FR_RX_FORMAT register.

Eric