[hpsdr] Project proposal – Artemis or Arty for short.

[Jeremy McDermond]

On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:13 PM, Kevin Wheatley wrote:

> A standalone PCB, probably Euro card size, 100 x 160mm, attached to an Ethernet switch in the shack...

What might be really interesting here as long as you're connecting it via Ethernet anyhow is to put something like a Micrel KS8995 (http://www.micrel.com/page.do?page=product-info/fastether_sw.jsp) on it.  That's a 5-port Ethernet switch on a chip.  This way you could actually plug a Metis/Hermes into Artemis, and you'd only need one-wire to the lot of them.  You could also support multiple Metis/Hermes installations at the same location with Artemis doing the antenna switching, etc.  The downside to the Micrel chips is that they're 10/100 only, so you couldn't run full speed on Metis/Hermes.  There may be other options that would allow you to do so.

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Jeremy McDermond (NH6Z)
Xenotropic Systems
mcdermj at xenotropic.com




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