Stu, It's very useable and well structured to help with a new H/W port. Actively being used on a number of commercial projects currently, including ones using Altera FPGA's -Ian
On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Card, Stu <stu.c...@axenterprize.com> wrote: > (cross-posted to the 3 different sub-communities with relevant driver > architectures) > > I would very much like to use GNU Radio as a real time signal analysis > environment with some Altera FPGA based hardware (not a general purpose > SDR, more a test probe in a comm system). > > Searching for information on porting GNU Radio to new hardware, I found > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2012-04/msg00535.html > > That contains some good pointers, but was 4 years ago, so I wonder if > there are any other places I should be looking for information on how to > write a driver for my hardware, so I can drop a corresponding source block > into GRC and get started with my signal processing? > > My signal analysis will typically start with a scrolling spectrogram, such > as is provided by fosphor (original GPU based gr-fosphor or later FPGA > based rfnoc-fosphor). We can do the high rate (FFT, magnitude, log) in the > FPGA: this would incline me to start with the rfnoc-fosphor software stack; > but my hardware is not Ettus, it does not have a UHD interface, it is not > Xilinx. So that pushes me towards writing a driver to go underneath > gr-osmosdr: then I think I also would need to extend gr-osmosdr itself to > make calls to that library, unless there is some sort of device driver > abstraction with a dispatcher to different actual drivers? Searching for a > framework that cleanly isolates the hardware specific device driver code > from the higher layers, I found SoapySDR: reviewing the description on the > web, it looks very nice, and under active development; but as someone new > to much of this, I am not yet competent to assist with that development, > and am not clear on how complete and usable (by a n00b such as myself) > SoapySDR is yet? > > Thanks for any tips! > -- Stu Card <stu.c...@axenterprize.com> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > >
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