[hpsdr] [Flexradio] anyone attend DCC this weekend?

[Philip Covington]

On 10/1/07, Frank Brickle <brickle at pobox.com> wrote:
> Philip Covington wrote:
>
> > After looking at the slides why not just embrace and extend Bob
> > Cowdery's Erlink-SR which appears to be *much* further along?  In
> > Bob's implementation of Erlink-SR, Windows is not the "odd one out"
> > either.
>
> Not to take anything whatsoever away from Bob's work, but the only
> real similarity between what I'm getting at in the talk and
> Erlink-SR is the fact that both rely heavily on Erlang. The
> differences are discussed in a little more detail in the paper.
>
> I encourage anybody who's interested in the subject to take a
> long, hard look at Bob's program. It's a very sophisticated piece
> of work. The key feature of FSM, however, is that it's an
> intelligent agent in the modern sense of the term. That implies
> the capability of the VR to make observations on its (RF)
> environment, adapt probability models on the basis of those
> observations, and alter its behavior in response. The "cognitive"
> part is at the core of the system. Bob's work is very smart and
> very slick, but it's not that.
>
> 73
> Frank
> AB2KT

I am sure that your paper when it becomes available and the pre-alpha
release in December will make the architecture clearer.  It is
certainly very interesting.

Unfortunately since I am effectively banned from the Flex list (they
are holding all my messages in moderation indefinitely) this question
will not go out to all those that might be interested in this
question:

Will FSM be the basis for the talked about next generation
architecture of PowerSDR?  If so, how do you reconcile that most of
Flex's customers are Windows users, the 5000c will use Windows XP as
its OS, and your assertion that Windows will be the "odd one out" with
the new Architecture?  It seems like it will be a similar situation to
what we have now - a subset of what is possible with DttSP because of
it being shoe-horned into a Windows app.

Phil N8VB

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