[hpsdr] FW: CPU board for HPSDR

[alex]

spining cube idea - yes that allready exists, its called linux

alex brown wrote:
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> From: hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org on behalf of Kevin Wheatley[SMTP:M0KHZ at TISCALI.CO.UK]
> Sent: 04 October 2009 16:44:19
> To: Aivars Straupe
> Cc: HPSDR2
> Subject: Re: [hpsdr] CPU board for HPSDR
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> This is going to be an interesting thread :)
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> I've been thinking along the same lines, however it's the system as a  
> whole that really need discussing, i.e following the motherboard, what  
> about the peripherals?
> OK there are many choices to be made and yes you could squeeze all  
> this inside a small box, but what about keyboard mouse and display.
> I (currently) think the best overall option would be for one of the  
> better performing netbooks. This will give you a physically small foot  
> print, with the performance to run PowerSDR, however I'm not sure if  
> this would meet (the soon) future requirements. For example multiple  
> receivers (4 currently planned for Hermes) and the GUI modifications  
> to support this.
>
> The GUI development is really going to be interesting, how about a  
> spinning cube with each receiver on a different 'face', when you start  
> to think about what the GUI will look like in the future, my mind  
> 'Boggles' :)
>
> Just my 2 cent worth.
>
> 73's
> Kevin
>
> On 4 Oct 2009, at 12:23, Aivars Straupe wrote:
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>> I want to start new discussion about CPU board for HPSDR.
>> I found on internet few interesting solutions from www.compulab.co.il
>> 1. http://www.compulab.co.il/fitpc2/html/fitpc2-datasheet.htm
>> ready computer in really small box, pico-itx I guess.
>> 2. just motherboard from fitpc2: http://www.compulab.co.il/fitpc2/html/fitpc2-sb-datasheet.htm
>> 3. and most exciting: http://www.compulab.co.il/iam/html/iam-cm-datasheet.htm
>> And very small power consumption for all of these, just one power  
>> source (5V). May be it's possible put CM-iAM in Atlas slot.
>>
>> There are few problems with this solutions:
>> 1.they are not cheap, I could say, expensive;
>> 2. for me that's not clear; is there enough performance to run PSDR  
>> on this boards;
>> 3. And biggest one (from site): CompuLab sells products only to  
>> commercial companies which are developing projects having commercial  
>> potential. CompuLab does not sell to non-commercial entities,  
>> including individuals, students and research institutions.
>>  I found different small foot print Atom Mainboards on internet, but  
>> they all are more expensive. My thoughts, if there are possible find  
>> at least 100 hams, who are interested to build small system for  
>> HPSDR. Then it's became interesting. May be there are replacement  
>> for SBC-FITPC2. I didn't find reasonable. If build Hermes for  
>> example with SBC-FITPC2, system size became very interesting ;-)
>>
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>> 73 
>> !                                                                                                Aivars 
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