Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio on iphone?

[Philip Balister]

On 12/11/2009 11:50 AM, Jeff Brower wrote:
> Cosmin-
>
> > Hey,Could it be possible to install gnuradio on smarphones
> > or iphone (v1 to v3) -maybe a minimal version- in order to
> > get working the usrp (or a minimal harware) with it?Maybe a
> > custom usrp hardware?Changing the dock for example.
>
> Interesting question.  The Palm Pre and Mot Droid have OMAP 3430... I know 
> Beagle board can run GNU radio (OMAP 3530)
> but I haven't heard of a 34xx port.  My guess would be that Droid is the best 
> candidate for experimenting.  It runs
> Android and and it might be reasonable to expect peer support for porting 
> complex applications.  Palm Pre seems very
> closed and Palm doesn't seem interested at all in developers doing low-level 
> ARM or DSP core development (we know, we
> tried talking to them about it).
>
> I bet Philip has some comments.

The iphone uses an ARMv6 instruction set, it does not appear to have any 
floating point hardware. You can run gnuradio on these, but you will 
have to re-write a lot of the blocks to do fixed point math.

The omapzoom was mentioned, a good way to empty your wallet :) You can 
do all your prototyping on the beagle board and see if your application 
will work.

The Beagle is OMAP3 based, there is a floating point coprocessor capable 
of SIMD operations. This is a much better platform for GNU Radio.

Philip