Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom Processor

[Tom Rondeau]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Jeffrey Lambert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Running an FFT is a CPU intensive application, and not a bandwidth/IO
> restricted application.  The comparison made here is likely not an accurate
> representation of throughput if only data stream to disk is the goal.
>
> ~Jeff


FFT's are actually pretty cheap to calculate (profile it; they usually
aren't a huge consumer of resources unless you're running very large
FFTs).

Tom


>> I run Gnu Radio on an Atom D510 system for narrow-bandwidth radiometry.
>>
>> No way in heck are you going to be able to run at 25Msps for even a
>> *single* USRP2, let alone multiple ones.
>>   I tried a 25Msps usrp2_fft.py on my atom D510 system (which is
>> dual-core at 1.6GHz), and it couldn't keep
>>   up.