>On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Eric Brombaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Philip Balister wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Eric Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> There was some interest on this list earlier about the Beagleboard, a >>> small OMAP3 based board. I just got one from Digi-key and it is small! >>> http://beagleboard.org/ >>> >>> Besides the GNURadio aspects this may be a good board for ham radio >>> digital modem applications like the old TI DSP Evaluation Board that TAPR >>> used. >> >> We have built gnu radio for the beagle board and simple stuff (dial >> tone) does work (for some sw builds). >> >> My list of gnu radio + beagle things to do: >> >> 1) Get ASoC sound working. >> 2) Work out USB sound configuration until 1. >> 3) Need to use libusb-0.1x. USRP transfer speed test works, but kernel >> dumps when closing usb interface. >> 4) figure out how to run make check. Currently, individual tests run >> with manual intervention. >> 5) Develop and test a NEON filter implementation. >> >> Installing GNU Radio, install the Angstrom images, type "opkg install >> gnuradio" :) If you have any questions I am on irc.freenode.net in >> #beagle and #gnuradio. > > That's great. The next thing I'd like to see is someone using the Beagle > expansion port for a higher bandwidth RF interface. Something to get the > data rate up beyond the ~30MB/s that the current USRP supports. Seems > do-able, but would require some new driver and hardware development.
I've been talking to a friend (he knows FPGA stuff much better than me) about using the expansion port to communicate with an FPGA via a SDIO interface. I don't think we can beat the current USRP data rate, but we should be able to reduce the latency introduced by the USB interface. Philip _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
