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    This document provides instructions for a laboratory exercise using a USRP to demodulate an AM signal. The objectives are to gain experience programming the USRP receiver and investigate AM modulation and demodulation. Students are instructed to set up the USRP receiver to receive a signal transmitted by another USRP operating as an AM transmitter. They are then asked to filter, rectify, and low-pass filter the received signal to extract the message and observe it on an oscilloscope. The document provides detailed steps and configuration parameters for setting up the transmitter and receiver.

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    This document provides instructions for a laboratory exercise using a USRP to demodulate an AM signal. The objectives are to gain experience programming the USRP receiver and investigate AM modulation and demodulation. Students are instructed to set up the USRP receiver to receive a signal transmitted by another USRP operating as an AM transmitter. They are then asked to filter, rectify, and low-pass filter the received signal to extract the message and observe it on an oscilloscope. The document provides detailed steps and configuration parameters for setting up the transmitter and receiver.

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    This document provides instructions for a laboratory exercise using a USRP to demodulate an AM signal. The objectives are to gain experience programming the USRP receiver and investigate AM modulation and demodulation. Students are instructed to set up the USRP receiver to receive a signal transmitted by another USRP operating as an AM transmitter. They are then asked to filter, rectify, and low-pass filter the received signal to extract the message and observe it on an oscilloscope. The document provides detailed steps and configuration parameters for setting up the transmitter and receiver.

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    ANALOG & DIGITAL

    COMMUNICATION
    (EL-323)

    LABORATORY MANUAL

    USRP as AM Demodulator
    ( LAB # 09)
    Student Name: ______________________________________________
    Roll No: ________________ Section: ____
    Date performed: _____________, 2016
    MARKS AWARDED: _______

    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES, CHINIOTFAISALABAD

    Lab #

    Analog & Digital


    National University
    Roll No: __________
    Communication
    of Computer and Emerging Sciences
    Chiniot-Faisalabad
    (EL223)
    Fall 2016
    _________________________________________________________________________________

    09

    9. USRP as AM Demodulator
    This laboratory exercise has two objectives. The first is to gain a firsthand experience in actually
    programming the USRP to act as a receiver. The second is to investigate classical analog amplitude
    modulation and the envelope detector.

    9.1

    Background
    9.1.1 Receiver

    LabVIEW interacts with the USRP receiver by means of six functions located on the block diagram.
    Figure 1 shows the basic receiver structure.

    Figure 1:Receiver Template

    Open Rx Session initiates the receiver session and generates a session handle and an error cluster
    that are propagated through all six functions. You must add a control called device names that
    you will use to inform LabVIEW of the IP address or resource name of the USRP.
    Configure Signal has the same function as the corresponding function in the transmitter. Attach
    four controls and three indicators to this function as shown in the figure. This time, set the IQ rate
    to 1 MSa/s, the carrier frequency to 915.0 MHz, the gain to 0 dB, and the active antenna to RX1.
    When the function runs, the USRP will return the actual values of these parameters.
    Initiate sends the parameter values you selected to the receiver and starts it running.
    Fetch Rx Data retrieves the message samples received by the USRP. Placing this function in a
    while loop allows message samples to be retrieved one block at a time until the stop button is
    pressed. Note that the while loop is programmed to terminate if an error is detected. A number of
    2

    Lab #

    Analog & Digital


    National University
    Roll No: __________
    Communication
    of Computer and Emerging Sciences
    Chiniot-Faisalabad
    (EL223)
    Fall 2016
    _________________________________________________________________________________

    09

    samples control allows you to set the number of samples that will be retrieved with each pass
    through the while loop. In later lab projects in this series, we will not use the while loop, and will
    fetch only a single block of data from the receiver. Fetch Rx Data can provide message samples to
    the user as either an array of complex numbers or as a complex waveform data type. A pull-down
    tab allows you to choose the data type for the message samples.
    Abort stops the acquisition of data once the while loop ends.
    Close Session terminates receiver operation. As noted above, use the STOP button to terminate
    execution so that Close Session will be sure to run.

    9.2

    Lab Procedure
    9.2.1 USRP As AM Receiver
    A template for the receiver has been provided in the Figure.2. This template contains the
    six interface functions described in the Background section above along with a waveform
    graph on which to display your demodulated output signal.

    Figure 2

    Pass the complex array returned by Fetch Rx Data through a bandpass filter. Filters can be
    found in the ExternalFiles folder in the Files Pane. Use a fifth-order Chebyshev Filter (CDB)
    with a high cutoff frequency of 105 kHz and a low cutoff frequency of 95 kHz. The default
    passband ripple of 0.1 dB is acceptable. The sampling frequency input to the filter should
    be the actual IQ rate obtained from the Configure Signal function.

    Lab #

    Analog & Digital


    National University
    Roll No: __________
    Communication
    of Computer and Emerging Sciences
    Chiniot-Faisalabad
    (EL223)
    Fall 2016
    _________________________________________________________________________________

    09

    Using the Complex to Re/Im function, extract the real part of the Chebyshev bandpass output
    Filtered X. To extract the envelope, take the absolute value and pass the result through a
    lowpass filter. This acts as a full-wave rectifier. Then, to extract the message, pass the signal
    through the lowpass filter. For the lowpass filter, use a second-order Butterworth Filter
    (DBL) with a cutoff frequency of 5 kHz. As was the case for the bandpass filter, the
    sampling frequency input to the lowpass filter should be the actual IQ rate obtained from
    the Configure Signal. The output of your lowpass filter should be connected to the Baseband
    Output graph.

    Lab #

    Analog & Digital


    National University
    Roll No: __________
    Communication
    of Computer and Emerging Sciences
    Chiniot-Faisalabad
    (EL223)
    Fall 2016
    _________________________________________________________________________________

    09

    Experiment #8: USRP as AM Demodulator


    Name & Surname_________________________________________________
    Date _____________________________

    Group ____________________________

    1. Connect a loopback cable and attenuator between the TX 1 and RX 2 connectors. Connect
    the USRP to your computer and plug in the power to the USRP. Run LabVIEW and open
    the transmitter and receiver functions that you created in lab 8 and lab 9.
    Give Snapshot of block diagram of tansmitter and receiver VIs.
    2. Ensure that the transmitter is set up to use
    Carrier Frequency: 915.1 MHz
    IQ Rate: 200 kHz
    Gain: 0 dB
    Active Antenna: TX1
    Message Length: 200,000 samples gives a good block of data to work with.
    Modulation Index: Start with 1.0.
    Keep the highest frequency of message below 5 kHz.
    Give Snapshot of front panel of tansmitter VI.
    3. Ensure that the receiver is set up to use
    Carrier Frequency: 915 MHz
    IQ Rate: 1 MHz
    Gain: Not critical. 0 dB
    Active Antenna: RX2
    Number of Samples: Same value as the transmitted message length.
    Give Snapshot of front panel of receiver VI.
    4. Power Spectrum
    Drag the FFT Power Spectrum for 1 Chan (CDB) to your receiver block diagram. To provide
    input to this power spectrum function, use the Cluster Properties function on the block
    diagram. Connect the Y input of Cluster Properties function to the output of your
    receivers bandpass filter. Connect the dt input of Cluster Properties function to the dt
    obtained from the top left Cluster Properties function. Then connect the cluster out output
    of Cluster Properties function to the time signal input of FFT Power Spectrum. Only one
    other input of the power spectrum function needs to be connected: Wire a Boolean constant
    set to True to the dB On input. Now connect the Power Spectrum/PSD output of your
    power spectrum function to a waveform graph. On the waveform graph, make the graph

    Lab #

    Analog & Digital


    National University
    Roll No: __________
    Communication
    of Computer and Emerging Sciences
    Chiniot-Faisalabad
    (EL223)
    Fall 2016
    _________________________________________________________________________________

    09

    palette visible so that you can use the zoom feature, and change the label on the horizontal
    axis to Frequency.
    Take a screen shot of your power spectrum graph.

    Lab #

    Analog & Digital


    National University
    Roll No: __________
    Communication
    of Computer and Emerging Sciences
    Chiniot-Faisalabad
    (EL223)
    Fall 2016
    _________________________________________________________________________________

    09

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    I have performed all the practical work myself
    I have noted down actual measurements in this writeup from my own working
    I have written un-plagarised answers to various questions
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    _______________________________________________________________________________
    _______________________________________________________________________________
    _______________________
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    Communication
    of Computer and Emerging Sciences
    Chiniot-Faisalabad
    (EL223)
    Fall 2016
    _________________________________________________________________________________

    09

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