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I liked the part (literally) about the Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA. Who knows what kind of cool stuff that could lead to?
by marshray 14y ago
I liked the part (literally) about the Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA.
Who knows what kind of cool stuff that could lead to?
- beambot 14y agoIt could make for fun Software Defined Radio (SDR) applications... but I'm not sure which applications are amenable to 200k Samp/sec. [For reference, my UHF SDR has a dual-channel (I/Q) 100Msps ADC...]
- npsimons 14y agoA few friends and I were discussing at work how nice it would be to be able to make your own custom laptop or smart phone. Something pluggable where more than just RAM and HDD were swappable. One thing that came up, however, was what to do about "evolving" wireless standards. Well, what if you could get a completely open source software defined radio? Might be bloody expensive for the miniaturization, and it would have certain physical limits (due to antenna sizes mostly), but it might go a long way to solving the whole problem of having to "upgrade" your phone or laptop just to get higher connection speeds, or have NFC/Bluetooth 3/etc. (the above are ramblings of a code monkey who dabbles in simulating RF; negative mutterings about how unrealistic or stupid the above ideas are will be politely ignored).
- CamperBob2 14y agoNot much, considering he didn't bother to add a fast/wide external bus for it. Very frustrating, and surprising considering who is spearheading this design.