Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU SDR DSP backend question

[Jonathan Jacky]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Garrett McGrath wrote:

> If somebody
> could link me some information on how the block code architecture was
> concieved ...

The JSAC96 and JSAC98 papers linked below are informative.
As I understand it, the VuSystem and SpectrumWare/PSpectra
projects at MIT in the mid and late 1990's influenced GNU
Radio.  Early GNU Radio distributions included the PSpectra code, I 
recall.   According to the papers, VuSystem was the immediate ancestor of 
PSPectra.

VuSystem, multimedia
http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/vs/vusystem.html
http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/JSAC96.html

SpectrumWare/PSpectra, software radio
http://www.sds.lcs.mit.edu/SpectrumWare/home.html
http://www.sds.lcs.mit.edu/~vanu/JSAC98.ps

Jon Jacky