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Bugrahan Ustundag
Bugrahan Ustundag on 27 Aug 2022
Commented: Image Analyst on 4 Sep 2022
TEXBAT is a recorded dataset about spoofing scenarios for evaluating GPS signal authentication techniques.
On this project, there are recorded GPS signals stored as complex 16- bit samples at a rate of 25 Msps.
I want to change its sample rate because maximum sample rate of my SDR (RTL-SDR) is 3.2Msps.
How can I change its sample rate from 25Msps to sample rates below than 3.2Msps?
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Bugrahan Ustundag
Bugrahan Ustundag on 27 Aug 2022
Edited: Bugrahan Ustundag on 27 Aug 2022
Thanks @Star Strider for the suggestion, to be more clear,
The data file is a binary file comprising of I and Q of the sampled signal. They are complex sampled. For more info: I/Q files (.bin files)
I want to resample a .bin file and create a new-sampled .bin file.
Is
resample
function valid for complex sampled signals too?
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 27 Aug 2022
I don't think I quite understand some of these outputs
data = repelem([1+2i, -3-4i], 1, 4).'
data =
1.0000 + 2.0000i 1.0000 + 2.0000i 1.0000 + 2.0000i 1.0000 + 2.0000i -3.0000 - 4.0000i -3.0000 - 4.0000i -3.0000 - 4.0000i -3.0000 - 4.0000i
resample(data, 1, 2)
ans =
0.6532 + 1.3483i 1.2706 + 2.4499i -1.9323 - 2.4326i -3.4466 - 4.6259i
ifft(fft(data), 4)
ans =
4.2426 - 1.8284i -0.0000 + 1.0000i -8.2426 - 2.1716i -4.0000 - 5.0000i
interp1(1:length(data), data, 1:2:length(data)).'
ans =
1.0000 + 2.0000i 1.0000 + 2.0000i -3.0000 - 4.0000i -3.0000 - 4.0000i
data = repelem([1+2i], 1, 8).'
data =
1.0000 + 2.0000i 1.0000 + 2.0000i 1.0000 + 2.0000i 1.0000 + 2.0000i 1.0000 + 2.0000i 1.0000 + 2.0000i 1.0000 + 2.0000i 1.0000 + 2.0000i
resample(data, 1, 2)
ans =
0.7370 + 1.4740i 1.0880 + 2.1760i 0.9318 + 1.8636i 1.0880 + 2.1760i
ifft(fft(data), 4)
ans =
2.0000 + 4.0000i 2.0000 + 4.0000i 2.0000 + 4.0000i 2.0000 + 4.0000i
interp1(1:length(data), data, 1:2:length(data)).'
ans =
1.0000 + 2.0000i 1.0000 + 2.0000i 1.0000 + 2.0000i 1.0000 + 2.0000i
I guess the fft result suggests that the power is being redistributed over the output, so the ifft output should probably be divided by the decimination factor

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Star Strider
Star Strider on 27 Aug 2022
The input vector has to be a real double array. So resample the real and imaginary parts separately.
Doing the experiment —
Fs = 1000;
t = linspace(0, 9999, 10000).'/Fs; % Assume Column Vectors
sz = exp(2*pi*1i*t*100);
% Resz = real(sz);
% Imsz = imag(sz);
[zrr,tr] = resample(real(sz),t,500);
[zir,tr] = resample(imag(sz),t,500);
szr = zrr + 1i*zir;
figure
plot(t, real(sz), '.-', t, imag(sz),'.-', 'DisplayName','Original (Fs = 1000)')
hold on
plot(tr, real(szr), 's-', tr, imag(szr), 's-', 'DisplayName','Resampled (Fs = 500)')
hold off
grid
legend('Location','best')
xlim([0 1]*5E-2)
It appears to work as expected.
.
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Bugrahan Ustundag
Bugrahan Ustundag on 4 Sep 2022
should I apply a FIR filter before the sampling?
Star Strider
Star Strider on 4 Sep 2022
I am not certain what you are referring to.
If you are sampling an analog signal, it is appropriate to do analog filtering of the signal prior to digitising it using a Bessel lowpass filter with the cutoff frequency slightly less than the sampling frequency of the A/D converter. Bessel filters are characteristically IIR filters, and are preferred here because they do not exhibit any phase distortion in the passband.
I generally prefer IIR filters unless I need them to have several different passbands or stopbands in the filter. In that situation, FIR filters are generally easier to design and implement, and I usually use them only as discrete filters with a signal that has already been digitised

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 27 Aug 2022
If you can read it into a time, t, array and gps (y) array, you might try interp1
gpsNew = interp1(t, gpsOld, tNew);
The old signal will have about 8 times as many samples as your new signal. Of course if you want to average the values in a certain window so you'll take the average of all the extra values instead of just picking a sample, you'll have to do some other things, like preprocessing the signal with movmean to get a signal averaged over the window.
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Bugrahan Ustundag
Bugrahan Ustundag on 27 Aug 2022
Thank you for your answer, but I do not believe that I can read it into a time.
What I have is a complex sampled signal in a binary file.
You can find the binary files in this link: https://rnl-data.ae.utexas.edu/datastore/texbat/
For example, I want to resample ds4.bin file from 25Msps to 2.5Msps
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 4 Sep 2022
OK, no problem. Looks like Star solved it for you (since you accepted his answer).

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