On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Farhad Abdolian <f.abdol...@yahoo.com> 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 > > ________________________________ > From: Tom Rondeau <trondeau1...@gmail.com> > To: Farhad Abdolian <f.abdol...@yahoo.com> > Cc: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > Sent: Mon, January 17, 2011 5:53:09 PM > Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Greeting and a question > > 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 <f.abdol...@yahoo.com> > 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
