Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Recovering x(t) from IQ samples

[Jonathan Jacky]

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Jeff Brower wrote:

> I don't know why programming the FPGA should look like a black hole.  Verilog 
> is straightforward, Matt's code is well
> structured and seems fairly well commented, there are tons of examples on 
> Altera's website, etc.  Sometimes I think
> people take "do everything in Linux software" to an extreme.  There's a reason 
> Altera, Xilinx, Texas Inst, sell more
> chips every year, even though Intel has tried for 15 years now to create a 
> world without those guys.

One of the great strengths of GNU Radio is that it opens 
the entire technology stack, from the FPGA all the way up to the GUI.
You can optimize your application across the whole stack, putting each 
function where it makes the most sense.  This contrasts with the usual 
approach where application developers are encouraged put everything in 
one layer.

Verilog is no more difficult or mysterious than C++, wxPython, autotools etc.

Jon Jacky