[hpsdr] Call for Comments and Discussion - OzyII

[Larry Gadallah]

2009/7/30 alex <ajbr at btconnect.com>:
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> verilog is modular i think.
>
> wasn't the whole idea of pluging a merc into the chip supposed to be a test
> for ozy2. like when merc was developed as an ozy with an adc added, this is
> a merc with an interface added

Part of the incentive to glue an Ethernet PHY onto a Mercury is that
you can then also create a standalone receiver (very much like Phil
Covington's QS1R) and not have to deal with Atlas, Ozy, etc.
Coincidentally it would prove to be a nice proof-of-concept for OzyII.

Thinking about it more, I wonder if there's a suitable 100 Mbps
Ethernet PHY that would be easier to work with, given what I've heard
about NDAs and GigE interfaces? Breaking the work down a little more,
it seems to me that getting a 100 Mbps Ethernet interface to work
would provide most of the framework required to support a GigE PHY,
if/when one is finally selected. Since 100 Mbps Ethernet is so
ubiquitous now, I'd assume there wouldn't be any issues with NDAs and
such.

>
> also, emailing phil harman and hpsdr, then phil will get the email twice, i
> find that that can be quite annoying but that might just be me
>

Sorry. My bad, I'll try to be more careful in the future. Don't want
to annoy the net.gods.

Cheers,
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Larry Gadallah, VE6VQ/W7                          lgadallah AT gmail DOT com
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