Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] "Open-Hardware"

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 01/12/2011 02:32 AM, Moeller wrote:
> Maybe an FPGA Experimentation kit could be extended with an RF/Sampling part:
>
> $400 price class, includes PowerPC, 64 DSP slices,
> Gigabit Ethernet, 64 MB RAM, just RF part and A/D converters are missing:
> http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-products/fpga-pld-products/4103784/-395-Virtex-5-FXT-FPGA-evaluation-kit
>
> Ok, not Open-Source hardware, but at least cheaper than USRP2.
>
>
>   
There's also the Xilinx SP601, which has roughly half the number of
logic blocks as the board you
  mentioned above, but is also only $249.00.  I don't have a good
intuitive feel for the number of
  required logic blocks/LUTs/slices are required for any given task.




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