FM Broadcast modulator baseband decimation factor

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Does anyone have experience with the FM Broadcast block in Simulink? I keep getting the error "The signal length (number of rows) must be a multiple of the decimation factor:[...]", but the online explanation of what the decimation factor is is not really clear.

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Abhishek Ballaney
Abhishek Ballaney on 29 Mar 2018
https://in.mathworks.com/help/comm/ref/fmbroadcastmodulatorbaseband.html
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Emilija Lazdanaite
Emilija Lazdanaite on 29 Mar 2018
yes, I've read the documentation, it does not explain what the decimation factor is. It only says "The input length of the audio signal must be an integer multiple of the audio decimation factor." Is the decimation factor then the audioLength/audioSampleRate? Because the number i get as the decimation factor in the error message is not that ratio.
Quenten Switten
Quenten Switten on 8 Apr 2020
Have you find the solution on this question?
I ask this because I have the same problem.

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Trey Shenk
Trey Shenk on 13 Dec 2022
You can find the decimation factor using the comm.FMBroadcastModulator system function "info." Here's a modified version of the Mathworks FM example, with the input truncated so that you need to adjust the length.
audio_data = audioread('guitartune.wav');
audio_fs = 44.1e3; %sampling rate of audio
fs = 240e3; % modulated output sampling rate
fmbMod = comm.FMBroadcastModulator( ...
'AudioSampleRate',audio_fs, ...
'SampleRate',fs);
% truncate audio_data so that it we need to adjust length for demo
audio_data = audio_data(1:661100);
% get the decimation factor
mod_info = fmbMod.info;
dec_factor = mod_info.AudioDecimationFactor;
% zero-pad if needed
zpad_num = dec_factor - mod(length(audio_data), dec_factor);
audio_data = padarray(audio_data, zpad_num, 'post');
% generate modulated signal
sig = fmbMod(audio_data);
% demodulate and listen to confirm settings
fmbDemod = comm.FMBroadcastDemodulator( ...
'AudioSampleRate',audio_fs, ...
'SampleRate',fs,'PlaySound',true);
fmbDemod(sig);

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