Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OLPC - next generation with SDR?

2007-12-21 Thread Marcus Leech
John Gilmore wrote: > > My first thought is to just increase the sample rate and effective > bits per sample of the audio processing hardware, and increase the > number of channels so that ordinary stereo audio can happen > simultaneously with analog I/O. I think it's a crime that cheap > analog I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OLPC - next generation with SDR?

2007-12-21 Thread Frank Brickle
John -- Have you looked at all at the Siren board? It's part of the HPSDR and Suitsat II projects: a low-power, low-cost SDR engine using the dsPIC33F embedded controller from Microchip. The current design uses 10 MHz RF in and out, and the QSD and QSE for complex sampling and excitation. There i

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OLPC - next generation with SDR?

2007-12-21 Thread John Gilmore
> The thing does appear to have sufficient horsepower to do some DSP. > I would like to think we can make several things available to this > project. For example, I think a tunable HF receiver for shortwave AM > broadcast is easiy achievable for very modest cost. Further out, I > would to see the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] REV_4_2 PDF schematics

2007-12-21 Thread Matt Ettus
Uwe Bonnes wrote: Hello, in SVN, all PDF schematics in the usrp-hw/USRP_REV_4_2 branch don't show the whole page, at least when viewed with XPDF Use the .ps files instead ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gn

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Does USRP monitor VBUS

2007-12-21 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:12:10PM +0100, Uwe Bonnes wrote: > Hallo, > > at least how I decipher usrp-hw/usrp/interface.pdf, the USRP doesn't monitor > VBUS. As the Cypress application note AN15813 states, this may be an endless > source of problems when booting the PC host, hotplugging the USB c

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] missing python package - SOLVED

2007-12-21 Thread Michael Dickens
Ed - Sorry to hear about your troubles with MacPorts; glad to hear that you got them working, one way or the other. On Dec 20, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Ed Criscuolo wrote: What I found was that, for some unknown reason, some of the packages that got recompiled as a result of doing "sudo port upgrade

[Discuss-gnuradio] A few volunteers needed

2007-12-21 Thread Robert McGwier
I am putting out a call for volunteers to help with some specific prototyping tasks that AMSAT needs to do in the early part of 2008. http://www.amsat.org for those unfamiliar with the organization. The skills needed are 1) TIME ;-) 2) I need FPGA programming help for a Virtex 2. It will be u

[Discuss-gnuradio] gr-radio-astronomy users

2007-12-21 Thread Marcus Leech
Could anyone who is using (or trying to use, or about to use) the gr-radio-astronomy subsystem of Gnu Radio please send me an e-mail indicating that. I'd like to establish a small community of interest, for sharing ideas, and things like the startup and post-processing scripts that I use with

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OLPC

2007-12-21 Thread Marcus Leech
Robert McGwier wrote: This is sent with my OLPC. What a great idea this project is. It goes to show what can be acccomplished ny dedicated individuals, something familiar to a lot of people in these two groups. The thing does appear to have sufficient horsepower to do some DSP. I would like

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TVRX LNA

2007-12-21 Thread Matt Ettus
Nirali Patel wrote: Hi, Does the TVRX board have a front-end gain stage before the signal is downconverted to IF? I will be using the TVRX and the USRP to capture over the air HDTV signals in a mobile field test. I looked at the schematic for the TVRX board and it looks there isn't a discrete

[Discuss-gnuradio] OLPC

2007-12-21 Thread Robert McGwier
This is sent with my OLPC. What a great idea this project is. It goes to show what can be acccomplished ny dedicated individuals, something familiar to a lot of people in these two groups. The thing does appear to have sufficient horsepower to do some DSP. I would like to think we can make seve

[Discuss-gnuradio] TVRX LNA

2007-12-21 Thread Nirali Patel
Hi, Does the TVRX board have a front-end gain stage before the signal is downconverted to IF? I will be using the TVRX and the USRP to capture over the air HDTV signals in a mobile field test. I looked at the schematic for the TVRX board and it looks there isn't a discrete LNA on the board. Doe

[Discuss-gnuradio] REV_4_2 PDF schematics

2007-12-21 Thread Uwe Bonnes
Hello, in SVN, all PDF schematics in the usrp-hw/USRP_REV_4_2 branch don't show the whole page, at least when viewed with XPDF -- Uwe Bonnes[EMAIL PROTECTED] Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt - Tel. 06151 162516 Fax. 06151 164321

[Discuss-gnuradio] Does USRP monitor VBUS

2007-12-21 Thread Uwe Bonnes
Hallo, at least how I decipher usrp-hw/usrp/interface.pdf, the USRP doesn't monitor VBUS. As the Cypress application note AN15813 states, this may be an endless source of problems when booting the PC host, hotplugging the USB cables etc. Just as a note and please forgive if I missinterpret the s

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] RE: USRP - radio astronomy

2007-12-21 Thread Frank Rawlins
Hi Marcus, Sorry to trouble you again. I am at a loss as to what I need to download/install to put things right! Regards, Frank > Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:46:37 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]; discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: > [Disc