[hpsdr] Interesting New Part from Intel

[Phil Harman]

Hi Chris,

If you want a small remote receiver that can be mounted at the antenna
then that is available today.

One of our members has modified the Mercury code to become a complete
receiver i.e. filters, demodulation, AGC etc.

The output is recovered audio that can be fed over a cable or VHF/UHF link
etc.

There is a simple control channel that lets you select
mode/filters/frequency etc.

At present it does not have a bandscope but there should be enough room in
the Mercury FPGA to add one.

If you were to add a Metis board and a WiFi router then you could control
it from your iPhone etc.

Just a thought...

73 Phil...VK6APH




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> 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:
>>>
>>> http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/11/22/intel-launches-fpga-equipped-atom/
>>>
>>> Intel just announced an Atom processor with an Altera FPGA integrated
>>> on the chip.
>>>
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>>> Xenotropic Systems
>>> mcdermj at xenotropic.com
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