[hpsdr] Sasquatch II

[Philip Covington]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Chris Albertson
<albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
>>
>> 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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> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California

The Beagle Board has the OMAP 3530 processor that is being discussed
here.  The OMAP 3530 has an ARM Cortec -A8 core and a C64x+ DSP core
(amongst other things) on chip.

I don't consider the Beagle Board to be a PC in the conventional
sense.  What you have described is basically what the Beagle Board
does.

Phil N8VB

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