In the October issue of the IEEE Spectrum is a review of GnuRadio and the USRP and in the contents is a picture of Matt with his USRP and some attachments. The article by Stephen Cass is in the "Tools and Toys" section. It is quite favorable and points out what we all know. The software needs to be easier to install and maintain and as always, there needs to be better documentation.
The one software module they mention as working is the FM Stereo demodulator I wrote so I am awfully glad we did it. He mentions that he got the TV demodulator going but that its rasterization was as yet, incomplete. We in the process of getting the digital subcarrier demodulated and decoded (RDS) at this moment. This is being done by someone else.
This was a thoroughly written, and very positive review for Matt and GnuRadio, both important contributors to Eagle.
Congratulations to Matt of USRP and Eric Blossom of GnuRadio, both Eagle team members.
Bob N4HY
On 10/13/06, Robert McGwier rwmcgwier@comcast.net wrote:
In the October issue of the IEEE Spectrum is a review of GnuRadio and the USRP and in the contents is a picture of Matt with his USRP and some
The article is here:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct06/4654
Congratulations to Eric and Matt.
Cool! Kudos to all involved!
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 01:20 -0400, Robert McGwier wrote:
It is quite favorable and points out what we all know. The software needs to be easier to install and maintain and as always, there needs to be better documentation.
Along those lines, I recently took over from Ramakrishnan as the primary maintainer of the GNU Radio packages for Debian, and therefore indirectly for all the Debian-derived distributions that provide GNU Radio (like Ubuntu). Building on the excellent work that he and Steinar had already done, the packaging of the new 3.0 release is cleaner and easier on the end user. Once those packages make it into the world-wide mirror network, installation of GNU Radio for a Debian or Ubuntu user will be as simple as 'apt-get install gnuradio'.
At that point, all the examples in the 'gnuradio-examples' package using the sound card should just work, and plugging in one of Matt's USRP boards will also "just work" as we've hooked the firmware load into the hotplug subsystem.
Lots still to do, but I'm reasonably proud of how well the new packages work.
Bdale
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