Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Beagleboard

[Eric Brombaugh]

On Aug 1, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Philip Balister wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Eric Cottrell <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > There was some interest on this list earlier about the Beagleboard,  
> > a small OMAP3 based board.  I just got one from Digi-key and it is  
> > small!
> > http://beagleboard.org/
> >
> > Besides the GNURadio aspects this may be a good board for ham radio  
> > digital modem applications like the old TI DSP Evaluation Board  
> > that TAPR used.
>
> We have built gnu radio for the beagle board and simple stuff (dial
> tone) does work (for some sw builds).
>
> My list of gnu radio + beagle things to do:
>
> 1) Get ASoC sound working.
> 2) Work out USB sound configuration until 1.
> 3) Need to use libusb-0.1x. USRP transfer speed test works, but kernel
> dumps when closing usb interface.
> 4) figure out how to run make check. Currently, individual tests run
> with manual intervention.
> 5) Develop and test a NEON filter implementation.
>
> Installing GNU Radio, install the Angstrom images, type "opkg install
> gnuradio" :) If you have any questions I am on irc.freenode.net in
> #beagle and #gnuradio.

That's great. The next thing I'd like to see is someone using the  
Beagle expansion port for a higher bandwidth RF interface. Something  
to get the data rate up beyond the ~30MB/s that the current USRP  
supports. Seems do-able, but would require some new driver and  
hardware development.

Eric