On 04/13/2010 03:32 PM, Catalin Patulea wrote: > ThinkRF (www.thinkrf.com) is also developing GNU Radio compatibility > for its product. I have been working on this project for a few months. > We're interested in feedback on the approach we took. > > Our board is also an unconfigured Cypress FX2 on power-up, so we will > have a proprietary utility that changes the personality of the board. > Once that is done, the board "looks" like a USRP, presenting the > corresponding VID/PID and responding to the USRP USB protocol. > > We chose to have it show up as a USRP "rev 5" to distinguish it from a > real USRP, of which I believe the latest revision is 4. Is this likely > to conflict any time soon? > I would have used a higher version number, in order to give Ettus more "headroom" for new versions of their hardware, as an item of courtesy. In fact, Matts a great guy, you should perhaps just work this out between you, so that no "tripping over each other" happens, and the marketplace doesn't end up with down-the-road grief.
I'm all in favour of standardizing the "wire" protocols used by both the USRP1 and USRP2, actually. > One of our goals was to minimize the changes required to the GNU Radio > source tree, to make deployment and maintenance easier and to increase > the chances of changes being integrated upstream. > > A laudable goal, and I encourage cooperation, and the development of wire standards in this area. Full-disclosure: I used to be a protocol standards expert for my previous employer, Nortel. So I'm biased :-) -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
