[hpsdr] Pic on Atlas

[Eric Ellison]

Chris

Not a prob! I have a full license for the FED PIC compiler which I will send
to you. I'll also send my 4550 eval board if you want to play with it. It is
still on my bench running "hello world" in it's own way! Phil - VK6APH,
myself, and Steve K5FR played with it for a while with the PIC 4550. Phil
was doing the heavy lifting, but Steve and I were following right along with
the C stuff.  FED compiler has some bugs, but the folks at FED do have their
hearts in the right place. Just last week I stopped reading their forum and
Piclist since I can't follow it all. 

Please check out the Picastar project which along with HPSDR effort to be
presented by Lyle at Dayton is another great SDR project! 

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/picastar/


I am trying to read from the 'top down' in that forum each night, but it is
HARD to catch up on 3 years of development by the most creative minds in the
world. Peter G3XJP along with many others have done a marvelous job with a
PIC to evolve a complete radio. If we could put their efforts on the Atlas,
it would be supurb. Harold - Johnson W4ZCB will be making the presentation
on Picastar at Dayton in our SDR conference.

Hang!

Thanks
Eric


   

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher T. Day [mailto:CTDay at lbl.gov] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:27 PM
To: Eric Ellison; mnaruta at comcast.net
Cc: High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List
Subject: RE: [hpsdr] Pinging Lurkers

Eric,

I did mean that mostly as a joke, I think. I mentioned the Wolfson CODEC
only because you sent me one for Xmas and it's still attached to its
card. 

Regarding non-FPGA goodies, there is an article in AmQRP Homebrewer #6
on reprogramming an Antenna Analyst AA-908 [got one of them] as the
controller for a TCXO - Temperature Compensated Xtal Osc - which won the
prize at Atlanticon last year. [Also got the Crystallizer board.] See
"The TC908 Temperature Controller". It might be of interest to stick one
on a board for the stability folks. [Haven't assembled my Reflock II
yet.]

And on the keyer front, I would have thought it might be a good idea to
mount a K1EL WinKey chip on a board - he's made them in SMT at least
once if we insist @ $6 - and get high quality control software
immediately, Ham Radio Deluxe among others. Then we fake a COM port over
the USB - common practice - and can spend the FPGA LE's on making lovely
tones with perfectly keyed envelopes and not reinventing a fine piece of
work.


	Chris - AE6VK

P.S. - I _love_ these little kits, in case you haven't guessed.

P.P.S. - I don't turn down free software either.


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Ellison [mailto:ecellison at comcast.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:56 PM
To: Christopher T. Day; mnaruta at comcast.net
Cc: 'High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: [hpsdr] Pinging Lurkers

Chris

I don't think the guys think the Wolfson Codec is the way to go. ... 

You might have the capability of soldering a 208 pin tqfp part on a
board,
but.... 

...

PICS!!! Yeah MAN! Check out the 4550! Has 4051 core and on board USB! I
think there is a faster USB part out now. I have a $200+ C-compiler
(FED) I
will give to you, which works with the free PIC stuff! There is NO
reason
that FPGA's alone need to slide across the Atlas! Bring it on!

Thanks to a great contributor! Keep the (re) Flow comin'!
Eric
 



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