[hpsdr] Cyclone II with Nios core for SDR - Correction

[KD5NWA]

Murray Lang wrote:
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> Just so that people aren't duped into buying something based on 
> misleading information I've provided:
> It turns out that the Nios Embedded Design Suite supplied with...
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> http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-cyc2-2C20N.html#documentation
> ...*doesn't* include the uC/OS RTOS, despite what's claimed in...
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> http://www.altera.com/products/ip/processors/nios2/tools/ni2-development_tools.html
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> Maybe the download version has it (I'll know tomorrow), but at any rate 
> what the local distributer tells me that the resulting binaries cannot 
> be distributed for *any* purpose, commercial or otherwise, without 
> purchasing the very expensive licence. The Altera site only says that 
> they can't be distributed for commercial purposes.
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> Bugger. Still a very useful kit, but the RTOS would have made life a lot 
> easier for SDR purposes.
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> Murray
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Their site is so big I don't think the right hand knows what the left is 
doing.

Would the Nios processor be fast enough anyway? It only runs at about 
100 MHz so unless you were planning on adding FPGA DSP hardware to 
accelerate  the processing would it have enough horsepower?

In about two weeks I'm going to start playing with my board, but I will 
be heading in a different direction, processing the data in dedicated 
hardware. That is if my copy of MatLab 2006 gets along with their 
software, if not then I'll have to back up and punt.

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