Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Design Competition (take 2)

2006-05-28 Thread al davis
The SDR Forum intends to seek permission to publish proposals, design documents, engineering drawings, source code, analyses, and supporting material developed under the challenge entires. No materials shall be marked `proprietary'. IMHO tt would be even better if the implied ownership

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Design Competition

2006-05-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 19 May 2006 11:38, Tom Rondeau wrote: Well put, Lamar. I just wanted to add a few things. I've worked with the SDR Forum for a while now, so I decided to ask them about the concerns raised on this discussion board. Thanks, Tom. Say hi to Steve Ellingson for me; got his document, and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Design Competition

2006-05-19 Thread David Bengtson
Owen Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 6:16 PM To: John Gilmore; discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Design Competition [You know, I might get flamed for this, but here goes] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of John Gilmore It looks like an incredible amount of work

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Design Competition

2006-05-19 Thread ldoolitt
Friends - On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:14:43PM -0400, David Bengtson wrote: A significant amount of my work hours are spent staring into 1) The Matlab IDE 2) Agilent's ADS 3) Microsoft Excel and I'd really like the time to learn Verilog. While Computer algebra packages are nice, if you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Design Competition

2006-05-18 Thread John Gilmore
There are monetary prizes... Yeah -- unspecified ones! It looks like an incredible amount of work, under really picky and idiotic rules, solving problems so challenging that there *isn't* any commercial gear that does it, at any price. For an unknown and probably tiny reward. And to hand it

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Design Competition

2006-05-18 Thread al davis
On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:52, John Gilmore wrote: (They won't accept work that has been released under a public license, such as the GPL or even the BSD license.  If you spend two years writing this stuff, they will *own* it at the end, and you won't even be able to keep working with or

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Design Competition

2006-05-18 Thread Lamar Owen
[You know, I might get flamed for this, but here goes] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of John Gilmore It looks like an incredible amount of work, under really picky and idiotic rules, solving problems so challenging that there *isn't* any commercial gear that does it, at any price.  For

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Design Competition

2006-05-18 Thread Rick Parrish
David Bengtson wrote: I also think, looking at the sample problems, that they will be lucky to get any entrants at all. http://www.radiochallenge.org/SampleProblems.html That sample problem list looks more like a brochure - perhaps one of the sponsors. -rick

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Design Competition

2006-05-17 Thread David Bengtson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 04:33:05PM -0700, Matt Ettus wrote: SDR Forum is running a competition for university teams in software radio. There are monetary prizes, and it looks like you get Matlab and Simulink for free. In other words, they think software radio is