On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 10:22 -0700, Thomas Schmid wrote: > Hi Lee, > > We are also looking into similar things, though we don't have the > power constraints which will be difficult to meet. We are currently > looking at a micro-atx solution with an amd geod nx processor since > this one is compatible with the amd athlon mobile. this should make it > easy to have a running linux system.
Good point. Are you custom building this, or did you find a COTS solution? Have you looked at mini-itx (which I now know of thanks to Pete)? If so, what was your impression? > we were first also thinking about platforms which feature a intel > xscale processor, though quickly found out that it doesn't support > floating points. GNU Radio makes heavy use of floating point > operations. Thus it is key, especially if the platform is not very > powerfull, that it supports at least hardware floating points. Wow. Thanks. I didn't even consider that point. I will definitely make sure I check this. > > Also, did you consider the power consumption of the usrp? I don't know > if someone measured it, but this might also be a problem for you, > i.e., finding a battery which supports the usrp over a longer time. This is a problem for us. However, other members of the group, namely, the UAV guys, seem to think we're okay on this. > cheers, > > Thomas Thanks for the reply, Thomas. I really appreciate the advice. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
