[hpsdr] Mercury & PowerSDR

[n3evl]

Based on the kind of flexibility Frank has described, I'd be surprised if 
the new architechture didn't provide an elegant solution.  If it's not 
really within the capabilities of the current PowerSDR then it's probably 
not worth the effort if the new environment is just around the corner.

With regard to the hardware,  if I have a single Atlas, already using Ozy & 
Janus to handle PC to SDR-1000, will I be able to add Mercury to this same 
backplane and use it in parallel with the SDR-1000 or will Mercury and the 
SDR-1000 be competing for mutually exclusive resources provided by Ozy & 
Janus?

Actually, it might be convenient to separate the SDR-1000 from HPSDR at such 
time as I have Mercury (and Penelope) available, revert the SDR-1000 back to 
it's sound card, and treat them as two separate hardware radios, possibly 
transparently managed by the newly architechted software as a single 
software radio with 2x capabilities.

Pete

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Tracey" <bill at ewjt.com>
To: <Thompson_Peter at emc.com>; <hpsdr at hpsdr.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Mercury & PowerSDR


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> I've not looked at PowerSDR 2nd RX code, but I'd think one could do
> it if they were willing to write enough code.  There may be some
> issues with Mercury and an SDR1000/Flex 5000 working with different
> sampling clocks - I don't know if the Flex 5k's 2nd RX uses the same
> sampling clock as the other RX and the output DA converter.  Suspect
> they do  - historically PowerSDR has not liked the idea of mixing
> clock domains.
>
> The other issues will be control and UI configuration issues.   You'd
> need setup panels that allow one to setup use  of X for RX1 and Y for
> RX 2, as well as control code for the variations of X and
> Y.    Doable, but probably a  fair amount of code in PowerSDR to
> handle all the different possible variations.
>
> One could run two copies of PowerSDR one for Mercury and one for an
> SDR 1000 or Flex 5000.
>
> This might be something better suited to implementing under the new
> architecture Frank Brickle is working on
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill (KD5TFD)
>
>
> At 12:55 PM 5/1/2008, Thompson_Peter at emc.com wrote:
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>>Since Flex have announced the second RX option for the 5000 and
>>PowerSDR now has the capability to support two receivers, I'm
>>wondering if it will be possible to treat Mercury similarly e.g.
>>have Mercury as the second RX in PowerSDR that is also connected to
>>an SDR-1000 or FLEX-5000.
>>
>>Pete, N3EVL
>
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