I see an emotional decision being considered and not necessarily a wise business decision and one that involves more than Ettus, Inc. Open Source software, which I live and breathe for, does not mean free. It is certainly not free to you, Matt, when you have to support multiple versions of the hardware. It is not free to the developers who support GnuRadio, day in and day out, spending their personal time, their employers time, etc. to write code for these devices.
On the Xilinx software, indeed, you can redo the demo versions repeatedly. My opinion is, it is what it is, you made the right design decision to give all of us sufficient capability to do all of those things that will allow those of us who are pursuing (with a dogged vengeance) the manufacture of one stop shopping for radio infrastructure, here in gnuradio. I would oppose your well intentioned expenditure of time on this. You just got the USRP2 out the door, and within a short time, there is little doubt in my mind that the part will be supported by the free tools in a fairly short time as other parts have in the past. You cannot please everyone all of the time and this hardware and this software project are doing "the good work" that needs doing for the vast majority of the users/supporters here. Bob ARRL SDR Working Group Chair Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. "Trample the slow .... Hurdle the dead" -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Ettus Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 1:59 PM To: David M. Witten II Cc: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 FPGA Notes David, --- snip --- Well here is one alternative. The S3-1500 is pin compatible with the 2000. If enough people wish to purchase a special version with the smaller FPGA I can have a number of them built that way. You would have to do some work to save a few block RAMs, but this isn't impossible. My last version that used the 1500 (rev 1) should still be in the repository. Please let me know what you think. Matt _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
