[hpsdr] Mercury & PowerSDR

[Bill Tracey]

Answers inline.

Regards,

Bill
At 06:59 PM 5/1/2008, n3evl wrote:

>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.

I hope and expect this type of thing to be easier in the new environment

>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?

At the moment they'd be looking for exclusive resources -- support 
would need to be added to the FPGA code to bring up two independent 
streams of sample, and support would need to be added to the 
Ozy/Janus code to handle the two streams.  Certainly doable, but not 
in the code we have at the moment.

>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



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