Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom Processor

[Tom Rondeau]

On Oct 8, 2010, at 6:21 PM, "Marcus D. Leech" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 10/08/2010 04:44 PM, Sharif Shaher wrote:
>> Hi Marcus,
>> 
>> That would be great, and greatly appreciated, we are just not sure
>> is if there is a fighting chance or not...thus the question to the forum.
>> 
>> Thanks so much,
>> Sharif
> On my dual-core Atom D-510 at 1.67GHz, with 4GB of memory, and an Intel
> 80GB SSD, I can run at 12.5Msps without a problem.
>  Once I step it up to 16.67Msps, it starts getting long sequences of
> overruns "O".

I'm impressed. Much better than I would have expected.

> 
> This is with the UHD "Single USRP" source, using complex-short output,
> into a "file sink" with a short input, vector-length 2.  From
>  a USRP2.

Ah, that makes a difference. I was running with the the non-UHD with complex 
floats. It's non-vectorized, so the Endian and short-to-float conversion were 
costing quite a bit.

Tom