Hey,Could it be possible to install gnuradio on smarphones or iphone (v1
to v3) -maybe a minimal version- in order to get working the usrp (or a
minimal harware) with it?Maybe a custom usrp hardware?Changing the dock
for example.
Cosmin
Cosmin-
Hey,Could it be possible to install gnuradio on smarphones
or iphone (v1 to v3) -maybe a minimal version- in order to
get working the usrp (or a minimal harware) with it?Maybe a
custom usrp hardware?Changing the dock for example.
Interesting question. The Palm Pre and Mot Droid have OMAP 3430… I
know Beagle board can run GNU radio (OMAP 3530)
but I haven’t heard of a 34xx port. My guess would be that Droid is the
best candidate for experimenting. It runs
Android and and it might be reasonable to expect peer support for
porting complex applications. Palm Pre seems very
closed and Palm doesn’t seem interested at all in developers doing
low-level ARM or DSP core development (we know, we
tried talking to them about it).
I bet Philip has some comments.
-Jeff
Hi Jason,
If all you need is a portable software radio package you can
reconfigure and monitor (ie, via a screen), Notre Dame is making big
strides in that area
https://radioware.nd.edu/prototypes/prototype-portable-software-radio
Yes I like very mutch this prototype!
It looks like on the “Cosmos1999” or “StarTrek” TV series.
Cosmin
Hey,
Could it be possible to install gnuradio on smarphones or iphone (v1 to v3)
-maybe a minimal version- in order to get working the usrp (or a minimal
harware) with it?
When I checked (when v1 came out), the iPhone did not have USB host
functionality. That would be a deal killer right there, unless you
were going to build a new USRP with an OTG controller in it and
writing OTG drivers for both the iphone and the USRP, which is beyond
the capabilities of most hobbyist/university developers. This does
not preclude you from using a different smart phone with host
capabilities (there were none when I checked 2 years ago), maybe the
droid does it, that phone’s pretty slick.
If all you need is a portable software radio package you can
reconfigure and monitor (ie, via a screen), Notre Dame is making big
strides in that area
https://radioware.nd.edu/prototypes/prototype-portable-software-radio
Jason
Cosmin-
If all you need is a portable software radio package you can
reconfigure and monitor (ie, via a screen), Notre Dame is making big
strides in that area
https://radioware.nd.edu/prototypes/prototype-portable-software-radioYes I like very mutch this prototype!
It looks like on the “Cosmos1999” or “StarTrek” TV series.
If you like that one, try this:
Still needs an enclosure for the USRP, but overall is smaller.
Certainly “phone like”.
-Jeff
On 12/11/2009 11:50 AM, Jeff B. wrote:
closed and Palm doesn’t seem interested at all in developers doing low-level ARM or DSP core development (we know, we
tried talking to them about it).I bet Philip has some comments.
The iphone uses an ARMv6 instruction set, it does not appear to have any
floating point hardware. You can run gnuradio on these, but you will
have to re-write a lot of the blocks to do fixed point math.
The omapzoom was mentioned, a good way to empty your wallet 
You can
do all your prototyping on the beagle board and see if your application
will work.
The Beagle is OMAP3 based, there is a floating point coprocessor capable
of SIMD operations. This is a much better platform for GNU Radio.
Philip