Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

[Peter F Bradshaw]

Hi Patrik;

Actually, within companies I have been associated with I have seen some
of the divisions that Colby notes - both in the GNURadio context and in
the context of other engineering / scientific packages. Some of my work
involves getting the three groups to a common basis.

Your comment does touch on other application domains for GNURadio. The
reality is that GNURadio is a near realtime SDF package. For
instance, I can think of one application - multi channel high bandwidth
sonar - for which GNURadio would be usefull. But, of course, in that
case GNURadio would have to be renamed GNUSonar! :)

On Mon, 9 May 2011, Patrik Tast wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
>
> You are just totally wrong and have understood GNU Radio erroneously!
>
> I wonder what your ear say when I say Software deinded Radio?
> I hear versatile (modifiable) using software to define just my task.
>
> GNU Radio is open software, if you want to listen at submarines, aircrafts,
> what ever satellites, etc
> the CORE is in GNU Radio, mod it as you want. Notice, it aint easy (just
> like that) it takes skills and alot of testing.
>
> >1: jams so many different fields of expertise into one package.
> It jams most fields (I'd say most if  not all), it is up to you to choose
> your field
>
> I wont answer your 2, 3, claims since they are words from an uneducated
> user.
>
>
> Patrik
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colby Boyer" <address@hidden>
> To: "Alexander Chemeris" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 21:33
> Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?
>
>
> > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Alexander Chemeris
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 21:29, Jeff Brower <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>> What I think might translate for GNU Radio is to find ways to support
> >>> more types of platforms. What about a small
> >>> USRP for smart phones and tablets? Would that draw in more developers? A
> >>> "platform broadening" might also make sense
> >>> from a revenue standpoint: small open source initiatives need revenue
> >>> streams to grow and be able to afford things
> >>> such as extensive documentation. For GNU Radio, this means hardware.
> >>
> >> I agree with that. I had an idea that a miniPCI SDR would be very
> >> interesting solution, I discussed this with few people and they were
> >> very interested indeed, but as a software guy I can't develop it by
> >> myself and I had not enough resources to make someone to build it. So,
> >> if there are any cool hardware engineers out there, looking for a way
> >> to contribute - lets design a small SDR board.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Alexander Chemeris.
> >>
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> >>
> >
> > One of big reasons I think that people struggle with GNURadio is that
> > is jams so many different fields of expertise into one package.
> >
> > 1. Digital Comms people (aka the Maths people) cannot program
> > themselves out of a wet paper bag, for the most part. This is what I
> > have seen in industry and academia.
> >
> > 2. Software people get lost in all the digital comm and signal
> > processing lingo. While they can program, they really don't understand
> > what each block actually does.
> >
> > 3. Hardware people also get lost in the digital comm stuff, and also
> > some of the software. However, they tend to be less confused than the
> > 'maths' people on the programming aspect
> >

Cheers

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