[hpsdr] Fwd: Re: DFC

Barry N1EU n1eu.barry at gmail.com
Fri May 13 03:18:55 PDT 2016


Is Thetis synonymous with DFC or will the initial release of Thetis
(running on existing OpenHPSDR hardware plus gigabit ethernet) lack DFC?

Thanks,
Barry N1EU

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Scott Traurig <scott.traurig at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> With all due respect to Jetson, linux and everything else, I suspect
> because the preponderance of code, i.e. Thetis, is Windows based, the first
> fully capable implementation (e.g. all the bells and whistles that we are
> currently enjoying) of Phil's DFC hardware will be with the DFC card and an
> NVIDIA GPU in a PC under a variant of Thetis.
>
> Ultimately it would be really nice if Thetis was split into client and
> server sides. This is becoming increasing possible because much of the code
> that is involved in actually running the radio has been divorced from the
> GUI and now resides in channelmaster.dll. Unfortunately not all of the
> code, yet. I would be *very* happy to run a small Windows PC as the radio
> engine/server. Because of the CUDA processing, it would likely not take
> much of a PC, particularly if all of the FFTs were done in CUDA.
>
> That's all very forward looking, though. First there needs to be Thetis
> and the new firmware. Then there needs to be new hardware. Then there needs
> to be even newer software and, well, what do you call GPU code, anyway?
> GPUware? DSPware? Flabware? ;-)
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> 73!
>
> Scott/w-u-2-o
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> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 3:42 PM, ad0es <ad0es at ad0es.net> wrote:
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>> First, be aware that the original push of this project is a daughter card
>> attached to a Jetson:
>> https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded-computing
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>> Last I checked this is a sub $200 card.  Not sure what the daughter card
>> will end up costing.
>> But these 2 paired together are an entry level transceiver.  Run Thetis
>> on whatever box you have
>> and your ready to go.
>>
>> The concept of running the code on a desktop with larger CUDA engines is
>> an idea of mine and
>> a few other nuts...
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>> On your second point, check out:
>> http://ad0es.net/flprogs/hydra/introduction.html
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>> Steve AD0ES
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>> On 05/12/2016 01:21 PM, n1kwz wrote:
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>> Subject: Re: [hpsdr] DFC
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>> Other than it being fun to experiment with CUDA coding what additional
>> features will I get? FPGA is $40 an NVIDIA is ..., and now I would need to
>> carry a desktop computer with me if I want to go portable. As a base
>> station to listen to all frequencies simultaniously it could be great, I
>> would even buy one, but I would not give up my Hermes.
>>
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>> Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® 6.
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