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IQ Oscilloscope

The IQ Oscilloscope block offers a powerful multi input oscilloscope for IQ data streams including various graphs, decoders and trigger features:

IQ Oscilloscope

Left hand side Input:

  • IQ 1
  • IQ 2
  • IQ 3
  • IQ 4

Right hand side Output:

  • IQ Slice (Scope triggered/displayed IQ data. Furter processing with script block only).
  • Symbols (Symbols from the decoder. Furter processing with script block only.
  • IQCons (IQ constellation data from QAM based protocols only)

 

The complete IQ data stream can be visualized and decoded with up to 5 graphs at the same time:

  • IQ and/or R
  • Phi and/or Delta Phi
  • Frequency
  • Demodulation
  • Vector incl. Constellation

In addition every IQ stream (up to 4 are possible) gets it own color control for IQ, R, Phi etc. for an optimized mixed data display. A powerfull timing and trigger control should be able to solve any capture or trigger setup needed.

The powerful symbol decoder supports various digital standards including:

  1. Auto
  2. Auto Basic
  3. ASK
  4. GFSK
  5. BPSK
  6. DBPSK
  7. QPSK
  8. QPSK_C
  9. DQPSK
  10. P4DQPSK
  11. 8DPSK
  12. QAM16
  13. QAM64
  14. QAM256
  15. QAM1024
  16. Bluetooth
  17. Bluetooth LE
  18. Bluetooth EDR 2M
  19. Bluetooth EDR 3M
  20. DECT
  21. GSM
  22. WiFi
  23. Wifi 802.11b
  24. Wifi 802.11g 5MHz
  25. Wifi 802.11g 10MHz
  26. WiFi 802.11g 20MHz
  27. Enhanced Shockburst
  28. SkyRadio MavLink

And finally various symbol grids can be added (e.g. bpsk, qpsk, qam16, qam64, qam256, qam1024, qam4096) helping to check the symbol quality:

IQ Oscilloscope Controls

 

All in all the IQ Oscilloscope block is one of the most powerful blocks and is free of charge.

 

A random QAM16 signal with all decoders and graps activated:

QAM16 Decoder showing multiple graphs incl. Phi, IQ etc.

 

Analyzing analog PAL bursts/packages with the help of the IQ Oscilloscope:

IQ Oscilloscope

 

The most simple mission:

Simple IQ Oscilloscope Mission

I am using the IQ oscilloscope to decode a BLE waveform (screencap 1). It mostly works as expected, except for one thing.

The decoded (hex) message seems not be as expected. As it is shown in screencap 2, at the bottom, the same bit sequence of 0-0-0-1-1-1-1-0 is decoded as 7c, then as ea and finally as 9d.

My assumption is that some descrambling/dewhitening operation is performed between the bits and the decoded bytes. Can you confirm this? Is there a way to disable this? It would be great to be able to do so and check that the CRC is valid (now it always shows this as fail).

Thanks

 

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All fine since the bit sequence is used to verify the GFSK signal, and thus represents the unwhitened signal. The seed value for the CRC in BTLE is only fixed in announcement packets, and thus cannot be correctly checked for packets in an existing connection. We are evaluating means to reverse the seed, when decoding multiple packets.

We added an automatic scale and select mode "Audo adjust Power" and "Auto Adjust Range" for a perfect fit and scale of all graphs