Hello, I had a thread earlier about floating-point to fixed-point conversion for a confusion I had with the QAM demodulator code I have (SHARC dsp). This is my first time working with an demodulator assembly and it has really thrown me off. I am trying to figure out how the slicing is performed. If anybody could give any hint that would be great. 1) What I am confused is, how floating-point to fixed-point conversion can perform the slicing, because, for example, in QAM, the point 3, can be received 2.4. Conversion to fixed-point puts it at 2, which is not a valid QAM point? 2) And it is mentioned that this floating-point to fixed-point conversion will put the MSB of the constellation at bit 31 to due proper scaling. The constellation gains are applied to the fft output before the slicing. So my guess is that the floating point value will be something +/- 1.xxx, 3.xxx, 5xxx, etc. Where the .xxx are fractional points coming from noise. The noise will very well take them over the boundaries to 2.xxx, 4.xxx too. My understanding is that the conversion to fixed-point will give an integer result, +/- 1,2,3,4,etc. Accounting for errors that puts the point over the QAM boundary. Could anybody give any advice as to where I am getting this wrong. Because clearly, this is not how it is implemented. Thank you.
Demodulator - Slicing by float to fixed conversion
Started by ●June 8, 2010
Reply by ●June 8, 20102010-06-08
On Jun 8, 1:50�am, "m26k9" <maduranga.liyanage@n_o_s_p_a_m.gmail.com> wrote:> Hello, > > I had a thread earlier about floating-point to fixed-point conversion for a > confusion I had with the QAM demodulator code I have (SHARC dsp). This is > my first time working with an demodulator assembly and it has really thrown > me off. I am trying to figure out how the slicing is performed. If anybody > could give any hint that would be great. > > 1) What I am confused is, how floating-point to fixed-point conversion can > perform the slicing, because, for example, in QAM, the point 3, can be > received 2.4. Conversion to fixed-point puts it at 2, which is not a valid > QAM point? > > 2) And it is mentioned that this floating-point to fixed-point conversion > will put the MSB of the constellation at bit 31 to due proper scaling. > > The constellation gains are applied to the fft output before the slicing. > So my guess is that the floating point value will be something +/- 1.xxx, > 3.xxx, 5xxx, etc. Where the .xxx are fractional points coming from noise. > The noise will very well take them over the boundaries to 2.xxx, 4.xxx > too. > > My understanding is that the conversion to fixed-point will give an integer > result, +/- 1,2,3,4,etc. Accounting for errors that puts the point over the > QAM boundary. > > Could anybody give any advice as to where I am getting this wrong. Because > clearly, this is not how it is implemented. > > Thank you.First of all, a fixed point number is not necessarily an integer. It is, as the name implies, a number with a fixed decimal point and constant resolution, as opposed to floating point. Fixed point numbers are often specified using "Q" notation as discussed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28number_format%29 Conversion from float to fixed does not result in an integer. You might consider whether a Q3.12 format is useful in your situation. John
Reply by ●June 8, 20102010-06-08
On 6/8/2010 5:59 AM, John wrote:> First of all, a fixed point number is not necessarily an integer. It > is, as the name implies, a number with a fixed decimal point and > constant resolution, as opposed to floating point. Fixed point numbers > are often specified using "Q" notation as discussed here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28number_format%29 > > Conversion from float to fixed does not result in an integer. You > might consider whether a Q3.12 format is useful in your situation.Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_arithmetic and Randy Yates' excellent treatment www.digitalsignallabs.com/fp.pdf Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. �����������������������������������������������������������������������
Reply by ●June 9, 20102010-06-09
Reply by ●June 10, 20102010-06-10
Thank you very much John, Jerry and Avier. The floating to fixed point conversion in the SHARC dsp I am using converts the floating point to an "two's complement fixed-point integer". Somehow a scaling is performed such the the integer part of the constellation ends up at the MSB's of the fixed-point converted result. Which is what I am quite confused about. Thank you again.
Reply by ●June 11, 20102010-06-11
On 6/10/2010 9:25 PM, m26k9 wrote:> Thank you very much John, Jerry and Avier. > > The floating to fixed point conversion in the SHARC dsp I am using converts > the floating point to an "two's complement fixed-point integer". > > Somehow a scaling is performed such the the integer part of the > constellation ends up at the MSB's of the fixed-point converted result. > Which is what I am quite confused about. > > Thank you again.The integer part? What other part is there? Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. �����������������������������������������������������������������������
Reply by ●June 11, 20102010-06-11
Thank you Jerry. What I meant was the constellation value as the integer part. The rest is the noise. So in the fixed-point converted result, a certain number of MSB's contain the constellation value, like 1,3,5 and the rest of the bits are the noise part. Somehow a scaling is done so that the constellation value ends up at the MSB's when fixed-point converted. Cheers.
Reply by ●June 15, 20102010-06-15
sorry for a late reply i asked wether you were working in matlab /simulink software anyways the thing is that you need only the MSB or say 31 30 bits ,,,there can be different approaches like 1 you data is serial ,, convert it to parallel data take your required 32 31 st bit,,,, convert it back to serial data (the two bits only) and thats it !!!!!!! or if you have a slicing function available in your software you can use it ,,actually its the same thing .. by the ways you can use SHARC dsp with matlab if this thing helps or not ,,, tell me