Hi John,
There are a couple other SDR-type platforms in the academic world... but
none really come close to the code base of GR IMO.
Rice has WARP:
http://warp.rice.edu/
Kansas is developing the KU Agile Radio:
http://www.ittc.ku.edu/techreview2005/presentations/Minden_Agile%20Radios.ppt
UCSD has the CalRadio:
http://calradio.calit2.net/
WARP is a very expensive platform IMO, and they are not as modular as
GNU Radio. I would say GNU Radio has far more in the PHY layer, and
WARP has 1 PHY (OFDM) + a bunch of MAC implementations.
The KU Agile radio is still pretty new, Prof. Minden gave a talk here
about it last semester and it seemed the hardware was pretty concrete
but the software was still in progress... which is what truly separates
SDR platforms :)
CalRadio v1 is strict 802.11 based, and the PHY is not flexible. I
think their goal was to keep the PHY in hardware and swap out
daughterboards with different PHYs that you could re-program the MAC on.
- George
John Clark wrote:
I'm co-writing a paper on the use of GNU Radio. Because I'm inclined to
use 'Open Source' solutions,
GNU Radio and the attendant DSP library, was for me about the only
choice I would have made...
However, in the paper I'd like to at least make some attempt at
indicating any 'alternatives', if there
are any in the Open Source arena, or parish the thought, cost-money type
packages.
If anyone has done a more detailed evaluation and perhaps has a chart
depicting features, that would be
good.
Also, a while ago, I saw someone who had put together a 'graphical'
interface, where one could construct
a DSP processor using graphical means, and setting various parameters
using a GUI. I have not had the
time to really keep up on that sort of thing, but if there is someone
who has something that works, I'd also
like to know about that.
For those who have information, and send me a release, credit will be
made in the paper for their contribution.
Thanks,
John Clark.
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