[hpsdr] openHPSDR at the forefront of SDR development

[Ken N9VV (Win-7/64)]

P.S. I think Joe has a 4 digit IQ and he is just too polite to tell us!!
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73 de Ken N9VV

On 8/23/2014 2:46 PM, Joe Martin K5SO wrote:
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> Hi Steve,
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> RR, understood. I appreciate your point.
>
> But as you noted, the landscape has changed and is continually changing such that the world of FPGA programming is not limited to those senior FPGA programmers anymore.  Granted, who knows if or how long FPGAs will be important, but for our project right now and for the forseeable future they are central to our designs.  Therefore, it should be understood by all that the domain of FPGA programming is certainly not now limited to “senior FPGA programmers”.  We can successfully do such programming ourselves if we want to do it.
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> 73, Joe K5SO
>
> On Aug 23, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Steven B. Dick wrote:
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>> Hi Joe. Certainly verilog or VHDL FPGA coding can be learned by anyone with
>> a desire to learn and my hat is off to you for taking it upon yourself to
>> learn both firmware and software programming. That was not the point I was
>> trying to make.  In my previous life, I was a digital design manager.  FPGA
>> code designed by experienced senior FPGA designers took a lot more time to
>> develop (even worse to maintain) compared to software written by experienced
>> software developers which ran on general purpose compute nodes.  For many
>> years, FPGA designs had an important role to play where special functions
>> just could not be done in general purpose processors or even DSP processors
>> with comparable performance, but one willingly paid for it in reaping the
>> benefits of high performance and/or greatly reduced hardware footprint.  But
>> the processing landscape is changing nowadays with very low cost processing
>> platforms based on multiple node graphics engines coupled with high order
>> language support with DSP libraries.  Use of these platforms is starting to
>> result in huge performance capabilities in a low cost rapid development
>> environment if these platforms can be readily used for particular
>> applications including the FFT function.
>>
>> Regards,
>> "Digital Steve", K1RF
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joe Martin K5SO [mailto:k5so at valornet.com]
>> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 2:06 PM
>> To: Rob Crewson
>> Cc: 'Steven B. Dick'; hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
>> Subject: Re: [hpsdr] openHPSDR at the forefront of SDR development
>>
>> A personal comment regarding FPGA programming and programming in general:
>>
>> The view that writing and maintaining FPGA code is beyond the capability of
>> most of us has been blown completely out of proportion to reality!  That
>> view is simply incorrect.
>>
>> Indeed, I'm a good example of the point, I think.
>>
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