[hpsdr] Sasquatch II

[Chris Albertson]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Jonathan Naylor <naylorjs at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> On the other hand, I like embedded DSP, and I hate to see
>> the HPSDR project become PC-dependent.
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> Why not?
>
> By going for an embedded DSP you'd just be reproducing existing Japanese radios but with better hardware. Isn'y it about time that we shed the past and move onto more advanced user interfaces? The developments of DttSP and the VR kernel promise to revolutionise amateur radio.

If they are talking about the "Beagle Board".  It is a PC.  Or at
least it can do all the PC things you have listed.

If I had a say in the design, I'd press for design that integrated a
true DSP chip with a small general purpose processor both on the card.
 The general purpose processor would run Linux or Unix and do all the
above "PC stuff" (GUI, VR kernel,...) The chip could be an ARM, SPARC
or a "soft CPU" burned into an FPGA.  The DSP would have to have a
free toolchain.  It would be more then really cool if the tool chain
could run on the general purpose processor makeing a self contained
system.


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