Martin- > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 09:07:38AM -0500, Jeff Brower wrote: >> Martin- >> >> > To a non GPL-philic, non-nerd, why choose GNU Radio? There is no reason: >> > - Matlab is generally free of charge for universities >> > - Matlab is used by the industry >> > - Matlab is better documented and has a wider user base >> > - Simulink has more blocks already incorporated >> > - Matlab/Simulink has a much wider applicability outside realtime DSP >> > >> > Here at CEL, the majority of student's projects are done using >> > Matlab/Simulink. >> >> In that case, what hardware are your students using with MATLAB/Simulink? > > Most use USRPs, but we also have some Lyrtech SFF SDRs.
If this can be generalized, then the academic situation seems good then. Matt has solved the foremost problem: get hardware into circulation and bring in some revenue. Then the question is how to gain wider academic acceptance on the software side. Since Mathworks and NI are arch rivals, I would think NI is looking at how to do this and giving Matt the assistance he needs. Maybe better Win support, as others have mentioned. Maybe adding things that leverage the hardware and the student version of Simulink isn't going to do, such as user-defined Verilog code blocks that run on the FPGA (and are easy to use from a Win GUI). -Jeff _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio