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Re: Automatic Gain Control
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sun, 3 Jan 1999 23:01:27 GMT
Original-From: 
Laurentino Martins <lau@mail.telepac.ptSTOPSPAMMERS>
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Could it be that the AGC value is a measure for the distance between the
tower and the Cybermaster? Would the data you have gathered support this?

No, I would say definitely not. To me it seems like the tower increases the
power when it has to retransmit, and tries to lower the power when
everything works. So the reading is only connected to 'connection quality' I
think. We had the highest reading with a short distance (3m) but the toilet
(pipes and water) was between the tower and the MU. Going upstairs to the
other end of the house lowered the reading again (and moving the MU just
near the tower showed the lowest reading).


I remembered once something Dave told me: AGC is unsafe if used inside NQCC.

His words:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The AGC() macro is the only one to use a 5 bit selector code (0x10).  For many instructions (such as tests), the selector code must be fit into 4 bits.

I would avoid using it within conditions.  If you want to make a decision
based on the AGC value, assign it to a variable first, then test...

int foo;

task main
{
  foo = AGC();
  if (foo == 0)
  {
   ... do something...
  }
}

If you use AGC() directly in a test ("if (AGC() == 0)"), then there's a
chance that it will be assigned to the 1st argument of a test opcode, which
only supports 4 bit source types.
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Laurentino Martins   *<||:-)

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  Re: Automatic Gain Control
 
Here's Anders Isaksson's anwer to the automatic gain control question. He emailed it to me directly but gave permission to post it, since I don't think many people know this: (...) No, I would say definitely not. To me it seems like the tower (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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