On 12/06/2011 03:33 PM, Daniel Ankers wrote:
I'm the original author of the tiny Linux environment called Busybox, which seems to be in a lot of phones, etc. I do understand how to make it small.1 - Is Linux the right choice as the host? My gut feeling on this is "maybe" - in its favour, there are a large number of people who are comfortable developing for Linux. Against this idea it seems that any time there is a platform (particularly an open one) based on Linux, people try to fit everything including the kitchen sink into it!
2 - Related to this, would you expect the host portion to be hackable - i.e. you can swap out Linux for a different system if that's what you fancy doing?
Yes.
It's pretty early. You could prototype it with a Linux laptop, a USRP, the appropriate USRP daughter boards, filters (both receiver and transmitter) and a power amplifier. The filters are the main not-off-the-shelf component of a prototype.3 - How far completed is the high level radio design?
$600 for the Amateur mobile unit, $1000 for the non-Amateur mobile unit. But I don't yet have a BOM to justify this.4 - What price point are you aiming for?
Thanks
Bruce
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