[hpsdr] Dayton Hamvention Advances in Software Defined Radio Forum, Friday, 5/16 @ 3:45 - 5 pm

[Mark Thompson]

Dayton Hamvention Forum 
Advances in Software Defined Radio 


Room 3 


Friday, May 16
3:45 - 5:00 pm 

Moderator: 
Stephen Hicks, N5AC

Speakers: 

Jeremy McDermond, NH6Z
Next Generation OpenHPSDR Firmware: Moving Beyond Just Verilog
The flexibility of the OpenHPSDR platform's FPGA-based firmware has been a
boon to the project from the beginning. The architecture has allowed us to move
from simple USB-based systems with a single firmware receiver to gigabit
ethernet systems with many firmware receivers. While this architecture has
been a success, the Verilog FPGA-only firmware has made housekeeping
operations potentially difficult and confusing to the end user. New "system on a
chip" FPGAs that combine traditional CPU-based systems with integrated FPGA
logic elements promise to give us the best of both worlds by providing the speed
of FPGAs with the abilities of an embedded system on a chip. This talk will
discuss using an embedded Linux to implement existing HPSDR functionality in a
SoC and future directions for such a platform.

Scotty Cowling, WA2DFI
Hardware Building Blocks for High Performance SDR Platforms
A few boards can be added to standard, off-the-shelf development kits to build
high-performance Software Defined Radios. We will present a hardware overview
of the SoCkit and BeMicroCV-A9 FPGA development kits, along with the SDRstick
RF front-end boards. Together, these boards make a very high-performance
DDC/DUC radio for only moderate cost.

Stephen Hicks, N5AC, VP Engineering, FlexRadio Systems
Advances and the future of SDR
The last few years have seen significant changes in both SDR architectures and
their capabilities. This talk will discuss the current SDR architectures deployed
and being pursued along with the advantages and disadvantages of each. We will
also explore some of the capability advances in SDR platforms in the last year and
eye some of the future capabilities that are now within reach given today's
powerful SDR platforms.

The three speakers will form a panel at the end of the presentations and will
address questions from the audience as a group.
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