[hpsdr] Fw: Naive question

[Joe - AB1DO]

Hi,

Although the HPSDR's ultimate goal is a stand-alone SDR, from the point of
 volume/cost curves there are 2 interesting spin-offs for the Janus/Ozy on
the way to achieving that goal:

1. A replacement "sound card" for the SDR-1000
2. A high quality USB "sound card" specifically designed for digital ham
applications in general, able to work seemlessly with all the current
digital software.

Nice advantage to both is they are USB and therefore usable with a loptop.
Although the former may be more easily achievable, the latter has by far the
larger potential from a volume point of view.

 If only using these 2 boards for 1 or 2 above, the Atlas would seem
overkill. Question (possibly completely rediculous, even superfluous) is can
one replace the female euro-connector of one of these boards with a male
connector and directly stack the two boards? There would be issues of
getting power to the boards I guess, but perhaps that could be delivered via
1 of the boards?

Again, may be a totally whacko idea, and I apologize if so, but just thought
I'd throw it out anyway.

73 de Joe - AB1DO

Bill Tracey wrote:
>
> Hi Alberto,
>
> I do not believe there's anything in the hardware that is specific to the
> SDR 1000.  We do intend (I hope) to make the boards so that they will be
> useful with the SDR 1000, but they are by no means exclusive to the SDR 
> 1000.
>
> As to software, at the moment we are not doing a Windows (or any other OS)
> sound card driver for the board, so code that wants to use this board at
> the moment needs to be able to borrow the code I'm adding  to PowerSDR to
> get data from the board.   The code is in C and is pretty basic C so I
> don't think porting it should be a big issue.
>
> The reasons we've not done a sound card driver for the board was 
> expediency
> (I did not want to go learn USB and Windows audio driver architectures) 
> and
> a general desire to keep Windows' fingers out of our precious data.
>
> There's no known reason one could not do a sound card driver (probably 2 
> of
> them, 1 for the A/D and PWMs) and 1 for the TLV part.   There are folks on
> the list interested in making it look like a USB sound card  and I am not
> opposed to doing that as it would be nice to use our nice high performance
> gizmo with other code expecting to talk to  a sound card, but at the 
> moment
> it is not something I am working on.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill (kd5tfd)