Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Greeting and a question

[Tom Rondeau]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Farhad Abdolian <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> I am giving up on that idea, as much as I love my old boards, it seems like
> porting the Gnu Radio to that processor it is not worth much at this stage
> since the processor is too slow for any serious processing compare to modern
> Cortex A8 based processors.
>
> I think I have to learn to walk before I start a marathon :) so for now I am
> learning the basics of GR and use the audio card as the data source together
> with a small board I 'breadboard':ed for this. Maybe my next step will be to
> use the Friendly ARM board with the GR, but I am not sure, I am still
> hopping on one foot!
>
> Best regards,
> /Farhad


That sounds like a reasonable approach.

When you're ready, you should probably look at the Ettus USRP-E100,
which uses an ARM-based OMAP processor. That seems like it's pretty
much the form-factor you are looking for.

Tom


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> From: Tom Rondeau <address@hidden>
> To: Farhad Abdolian <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Sent: Mon, January 17, 2011 5:53:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Greeting and a question
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> Hi Farhad,
> I have not heard of anyone using the Avnemt Memec board for GNU Radio.
> What are your plans with it? From a quick read about the product, I
> was wondering if you were thinking of trying to get GNU Radio to run
> on the internal PowerPC or to make the Memec board a peripheral front
> end and pass samples back to a host computer. I didn't look closely
> enough at the board to know what it's external interfaces might be
> (USB, Ethernet, PCI, etc.). I didn't see what kind of PowerPC they are
> using, so you'd have to ask yourself if it is powerful enough to do
> what you want onboard or if you want to offload it to a more capable
> processor.
>
> Let us know if you're making any progress on it.
>
> Tom
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Farhad Abdolian <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> I am a newcomer on this list and would like to first introduce myself.
>>
>> I am a HW design engineer with over 20 years of experience in designing
>> various electronic and systems including a working base station based on
>> SW
>> radio in 1999 with a team of engineers at Ericsson Radio Access in Sweden,
>> a
>> system that managed to support multiple mobiles systems including NMT,
>> GSM,
>> AMPS, DAMPS and DECT using a number of FPGAs and DSPs. My specialty is
>> FPGA
>> design and I would like to move some of the GNU radio blocks into an FPGA
>> to
>> make it possible to run the SW part on a low end processor such as ARM9 or
>> similar.
>>
>> After many years, I came back to into the field of working on a RBS design
>> and found the wonderful project called Gnu Radio :)
>>
>>
>> Now, my questions, I wonder if anyone here has ever looked into using some
>> old FPGA boards such Avnemt Memec Virtex-II pro board with P160 analog
>> interface board together with Gnu Radio? The reason I am asking this is
>> that
>> I have a few of these boards from previous project and I believe they
>> could
>> be great HW for a quick start of the GR design with minimum amount of
>> investment.
>>
>> Thanks in advance and best regards,
>> Farhad Abdolian
>> Antibes, France
>>
>>
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