[hpsdr] Interesting New Part from Intel

[Chris Albertson]

Actually this is far better for SDR than just making the soft CPU faster.


The number one problem I see with any SDR design and the number one bottle neck
to performance is the connection between the ADC chip and the computer.  We send
much effort crunching the digitized signal so that it can fit down
some pipe like USB.

This chip eliminates the need for a pipe.  The Atom CPU can run a
conventional operating system
 (such as Linux) and normal SDR software (such as DttSP with a Java
 shell)  At the same time the
 Atom can run a web server.   That Atom can run all of the software
 that would today run on your
 PC.  In fact it would be the "PC".  And then there is no bottleneck
 between the PC and the FPGA.

 Of course the little atom/fpga chip lacks a keyboard and display but
 it would be easy to
 run a VNC server on the Atom processor so you could access the SDR
 software other an Ethernet or WiFi

 In sort now you can push even more function into the RF front end box
so all of the  DSP
 is done there and none on your desktop computer.    Maybe then the
 "desktop computer" can be an IPhone running a web browser?

For a long time my goal has been a radio that is small and cheap
enough to keep outside
and ideally mount on the antenna directly with no feed-line  this chip
 almost allows this.

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> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Jeremy McDermond
> <mcdermj at xenotropic.com> wrote:
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>> Why do a soft core processor when you can get hard cores instead:
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>> http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/11/22/intel-launches-fpga-equipped-atom/
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>> Intel just announced an Atom processor with an Altera FPGA integrated on the chip.
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>> Xenotropic Systems
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