[hpsdr] Metis update and Happy New Year

[Phil Harman]

All,

Testing of the Metis boards continues to go well with the PC/MAC  and FPGA 
code nearing production release candiates.

Doug, W5WC, and Bill, KD5TFD, have modified PowerSDR(TM) (V1.19.3.2)  to 
support Metis and will merge to a 2.x version as soon as a stable version is 
available.  John, G0ORX, ghspr3 Linux code and Jeremy, NH6Z, MacHPSDR code 
also support Metis.

Always nice to end the year on a high note.  I've been struggling with 
trying to get Metis to program the flash memory on a Mercury/Penny board via 
the Atlas bus. Finally got it to work today.

John, G0ORX,  has written a cross platform PC application that enables the 
FPGA code in the Metis board to be updated.  The next version of his code 
will allow updates to Mercury and Penelope using Metis and frees us from the 
need to use the Altera Quartus programming tools/code and the frequent 
version updates that entailes.

Looks like 2011 is going to be another interesting year for HPSDR projects 
with Hermes, Apollo, Alex and Metis moving into production.

There is also interest in moving the Cyclops 1GHz spectrum analyser into 
Alpha stage as well as a high power linear amplifier project in the design 
stages.

73 and a Happy New Year to all HPSDR followers.

Phil....VK6APH







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