Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] new 802.11b receiver

[Eric Blossom]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:19:48PM -0400, George Nychis wrote:
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> Brian Padalino wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Mohammad Hamed Firooz
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>   Hi,
>>>  As you may know, BBN guys have developed a receiver for 802.11b. But
>>>  due to the USB limitation, they had to cut the spectrum which leads to
>>>  low SNR. We have developed a new receiver by doing some operation
>>>  (especially de-spreading) inside the FPGA (before sending data to USB).
>>>  Therefore, our receiver use the whole spectrum to abstract the data.
>>>  you can find more information and the codes in our website:
>>>  http://span.ece.utah.edu/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.80211bReceiver
>>
>> So, where's the Verilog for the changed FPGA build?
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> Considering the amount of research in 802.11 networks, I'm sure it will be 
> extremely helpful for someone in the future who might want to modify your 
> implementation for you to host the Verilog code... just as Matt was nice 
> enough to provide you his FPGA code for the USRP ;)
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> Maybe make it a separate archive that you are hosting.
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> Nonetheless, cool and thanks for sharing!  I'm sure someone will poke 
> around with this.
>

Is there GPL'ed code behind the "click through"? 
If so, that's problematic.

Eric