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From: | Steve Schear |
Subject: | Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] HDTV and the USRP |
Date: | Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:49:46 -0700 |
At 12:23 PM 7/28/2004, John Gilmore wrote:
> Wasn't one of the major requirements of the USRP to be able to handle > [HDTV in real time]? No. The main requirement of the USRP was to make hardware that ordinary people can buy and plug in, which is at least as capable as the $1200 PCI boards that were used in our early work (including the HDTV decoding).
My notes pre-date the USRP's formal design, but in them it was discussed more than once that an ability of the sought after A/D - D/A board to unburden the host CPU by performing demodulation was important. Since I was not involved in later design discussions I can only assume it was dropped as a requirement.
steve
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