Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Yet another kick at the cheap-hardware can

2011-01-20 Thread Euripedes Rocha Filho
Hi, I'm very intersted in this project and will help to make things happen. I can help in any part of the design, but I have more experience in FPGA developing. Euripedes 2011/1/20 Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com Hi Marcus, Who works on this project now? Nobody, really, except that I've

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Yet another kick at the cheap-hardware can

2011-01-20 Thread Mark Steward
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: If the answer to the above is yes, then the next question is:  is there a community of interested  volunteers to bring the project to fruition?  Such an interested community would involve:     o High-level hardware

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Yet another kick at the cheap-hardware can

2011-01-20 Thread William Cox
I don't know if this is kosher, but has anyone looked at the (vast array of) offerings from Comblocks (comblock.com)? They sell FPGA IP cores for all of their hardware, and it seems like it might be a good match for building a basic I/Q acquisition system. Here's a full product list:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Yet another kick at the cheap-hardware can

2011-01-20 Thread Euripedes Rocha Filho
Well, may be an option for someone , but we are trying to get a cheaper, and open-source, hardware and I hope we can do this. Euripedes 2011/1/20 William Cox wc...@ncsu.edu I don't know if this is kosher, but has anyone looked at the (vast array of) offerings from Comblocks (comblock.com)?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Yet another kick at the cheap-hardware can

2011-01-20 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I don't know if this is kosher, but has anyone looked at the (vast array of) offerings from Comblocks (comblock.com http://comblock.com)? They sell FPGA IP cores for all of their hardware, and it seems like it might be a good match for building a basic I/Q acquisition system. Here's a full

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Yet another kick at the cheap-hardware can

2011-01-20 Thread James Jordan
Hi Marcus, In your design there is only a single RX. I think it is better to build an expandable board which can expand 2 RX 3 RX... That will only introduce a little more cost but will meet much more people's need. On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:39 AM, James Jordan james.jordan@gmail.comwrote:

[Discuss-gnuradio] Yet another kick at the cheap-hardware can

2011-01-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
http://www.sbrac.org/files/digital_receiver_cheap.pdf This has everything in one place--commit to a single host I/O, and go cheaper as a result. The estimated BOM cost for this, including PCB would be under $100.00. If you sacrifice very-fine tunability, then you don't need a DDC in the FPGA,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Yet another kick at the cheap-hardware can

2011-01-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Hi Marcus, Who works on this project now? Nobody, really, except that I've posted a few straw man designs. Why choose USB as the interface to host. The USB interface became the bandwidth bottleneck in USRP1, so why use network interface? USB-2.0 is relatively cheap to implement, which is