Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] grc/gnuradio-companion architecture

[Josh Blum]

On 10/31/2011 10:50 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> On 10/31/2011 01:45 PM, Chris Lirakis wrote:
>> gnuradio-companion is a really cool piece of software. I'd like to
>> emulate the style in which blocks are connected together. It is rather
>> intricately tied to gnuradio. Does a design document exist that shows
>> the philosophy of the internal layout, ie how blocks are connected etc?
>> Chris
>>
>> -- 
>> Chris Lirakis
>>
> I don't think there's an architecture document.
> 
> But GRC "knows" remarkably little about Gnu Radio, per se.  Most of that
> knowledge is encapsulated in the various .XML files that describe
>   blocks semantics, and in particular, the code that needs to be emitted
> when one of those blocks is instantiated.
> 
> So, conceivably, you could use GRC to layout "blocks" for an entirely
> different reason/subsystem--might require *bit* of tweaking, but probably
>  not a complete overhaul.
> 

I had done exactly this for a project that connected VHDL blocks. It
used the same gui and base classes as grc. The link seems to be down
now: http://www.flexhdr.org/projects/flexhdr/wiki

-josh