Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] re: Low cost hardware option, the "total GNU solution"

[Moeller]

On 15.01.2011 16:17, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
>> It would be really cool to create a "total GNU" solution for the GNURADIO.
>> GNU EDA tools, GNU-like Hardware (open-source community license),
>> GNU FPGA-code, GNU µC-Code, GNU signal processing (the existing Gnuradio),
>> GNU operating system, GNU postprocessing (GNU Octave), GNU visualization
>> (gnuplot) ...
>>
>> I have only worked with Mentor Graphics and Protel before. Don't know if gEDA
>> is really suitable to handle all the EDA processes to prepare manufacturing
>> (auto-routing, EMI analysis and simulations, prepare the CNC drilling ... ?)
>>
>>   
> Of course, there's no such thing as a "total Gnu Solution".  Not unless
> we start
>   producing VLSI ourselves, etc, etc. :-)
> 

Do you think GNU should go into the semiconductor business :-)
A semiconductor fab is more than a hobby.
But it's a still lot of GNU, if only the components and
PCB production will be commercially outsourced.
I like the idea of a GNU EDA and GNU software combination.