On 2/9/2016 12:52 AM, Brian Reay wrote:
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 2/8/2016 2:19 PM, rickman wrote:
On 2/7/2016 9:54 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 2/6/2016 4:07 PM, wrote:
In rec.radio.amateur.equipment Jerry Stuckle
wrote:
On 2/6/2016 1:07 PM, gareth wrote:
"Brian Howie" wrote in message
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In message , gareth
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Presumably those SDR rigs which do not work on the IF but
directly from antennae must have, separately from the DSP processor,
some semblance of a DDS generator (but without the final DAC) to
act as the equivalent of the VFO, for I cannot perceive that a
fractional-Hz
tuning rate could be achieved with machine code running in the DSP
processor?
I'm not an expert ,but I think what you're asking is " how is the
local
oscillator generated" in a direct conversion SDR and "what
determines its
resolution"
There is an example here, :-
http://www.radioelementi.it/public/saqrx.pdf
The "c" source code is here,which I can just about understand ( My
software background is FORTRAN and Matlab) :-
https://sites.google.com/site/sm6lkm/saqrx/
Softies shouldn't have a problem with it although I was able to
mess about
with it and recompile it successfully
In this case the spectrum is dc to 22050Hz in 512 steps. It's not
the LO
precision ( it's floating point in this one) that limits it but
the size
of the FFT , the sample rate and thus the record length, that sets
the
minimum FFT bin width . This one tunes in lumps of about 43Hz

Thank-you Brian, but what you have URLed is already at baseband,
being VLF.


When moving from FORTRAN to C, the major difference (apart from the
nitty-gritty
of statement syntax) is that in FORTRAN, variables are always
passed by
reference
(at least in FORTRAN '66 which I did 47 years ago) and in C you
have the
choice of passing
by value or by reference.


Wrong on both counts. Fortran and C are both pass by value. Neither
defines pass by reference in their respective standards although some
recent Fortran compilers have an extension to pass by reference).

In C, if an arguement to a function is defined as a pointer, then the
local values are references to the storage locations of the original
arguments passed in and changes will change the original value. This
is called pass by reference.


In C, if the argument to a function is defined as a pointer, then a copy
of the pointer is passed. Of course, that copy still points at the same
place as the original, but it is still a copy.

And that is the definition of "pass by reference", passing a pointer (a
reference) to an object rather than its value. This "reference"
explains it to you in your own language.

http://courses.washington.edu/css342...32/passby.html



And you can find sites on the internet which say the Earth is flat.

It isn't by most C experts. Pass by reference means being able to use
the variable without having to dereference it.

http://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial...-by-reference/

It is not called pass by reference. The pointer must still be
dereference to get to the value.

C++ does have a pass by reference, but not C.

In C, if an arguement to a function is not defined as a pointer,
then the local value is a copy of the original value which will not
be changed. This is called pass by value.


Both are pass by value. The only difference is if you are passing the
variable or a pointer by value.

And that is the whole difference between reference and value parameters.
Heck, I learned this in a chemistry class (FORTRAN) long before I was
in the EE department.


Yea, right. You took FORTRAN in a chemistry class? That's a great one!

Go crawl back into your electronics technology course. You know even
less about programming than you do electronics.


Perfectly normal, at least in the UK, for students studying various courses
(certainly the sciences) to study a programming language (in my Uni days
Fortran). My wife certainly did, we were married while at Uni (still are of
course) and we often spent lunch times preparing 'punch cards' which were
the entry method for the Uni Fortran machines.




And I suppose you learned about exothermic reactions in a World History
class.

In the United States, computer languages are taught in Computer Science
courses, not Chemistry.

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