On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Theo Verelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I saw there was talk of usrp2, is that new digitizer hardware, or new > software for the existing USRP ?
The USRP2 is a second generation version of the original USRP hardware. > In case it is new, maybe it is a good idea to take two FPGA's aboard > the machine, such as to be able to do signal processing on one, and > leave the other preprogrammed when no need to adapt the standard signal > processing and interfaces. > > In fact there are even development boards with built in FPGA with > significant capacity which could be interesting like this TI one: > > http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/ads5547evm.html You might also be interested in the Beagle SDR project I am working on (with others): http://www.opensdr.com/node/10 I looked at your website and see you have a Spartan board, I am getting started with one now. Here is a "marketing grade"[1] photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2785541252/ Philip [1] Meaning I haven't actually made any real connections, yet :) > > > > Is it hard to make a generally usable ethernet or Usb connection to > yield the high bandwidths needed for signal input, or is it a matter > of industrial interest that such units (as exist for disk drives > and such) are hard to get, and also not easily makeble from the sr > sources? > > The same for the receiver design: am I istaking or are even the open > diagrams deliberately hard to read in aspects and containing less > regular parts? In the HAM world it isn't considered a crime to make > ones own hardware and usually seems not to interfere with business > interests too much, or is the IT world in the way? > > Kind Regards, > > Theo Verelst > http://www.theover.org/Fpgasynth > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
