[hpsdr] New entry in the (almost) SDR arena

[Bill Tracey]

For Janus and Ozy I've been using Altera's Quartus II Web Edition (free as 
in beer).   I've been very happy with it - I knew nothing about using FPGA 
and CPLDs when this whole thing started and now know enough to use the 
little gizmos effectively.   Very happy to have learned how to use these 
devices.

The paid for Quartus edition supports more devices (the hi end ones) and 
have more tools for DSP design and embedded CPU cores.  It would be nice to 
have access to some of these but for what we've done with Janus and Ozy I 
don't think we have the need.

As we try and put more DSP processing into the FPGA the tools may become an 
issue -- I've not done enough DSP type stuff in the FPGAs offer an opinion.

Regards,

Bill (kd5tfd)

At 10:44 AM 1/23/2007, Howard Long wrote:
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>
>Hi Phil
>
> > A lot has changed in the last few years.  The DDC/DUC can be done
>completely in a Cyclone II FPGA
>
>I chose not to use programmable logic for several reasons, but primarily
>that I have no experience of them, which at the time was as good a reaosn as
>any!
>
>As a matter of interest, what are the options for FPGA design tools these
>days? My understanding historically is that the pricing on many of the dev
>tools in many cases, especially the high end, take it out of the hands of
>kitchen table designers.
>
>73, Howard G6LVB



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