[Mep-dev] TI OMAP

[Grant Hodgson]

Michelle et al

GeMMA is Tx only; whilst it will indeed be the best thing since the 
electron, is it merely the fore-runner to the full uWSDR transceiver, 
which of course will be the best thing since whatever there was before 
electrons :)

So to get full transceive capability you would need to connect OMAP to a 
full uWSDR, and uWSDR RF board will have the capability of supporting 
the full bandwidth for digital ATV or whatever - with some component 
changes required to get the extra I/Q bandwidth.  The uWSDR back-end 
will only support I/Q sampling up to 96k samples/sec, maybe 192k 
samples/sec at a push.  For higher data rates different A/D and D/A will 
be required - not sure if this is supported on the OMAP Eval board or 
the Beagleboard?  If not, then some new back-end A/D & D/A processing 
will be required.

regards

Grant


> 
> This morning I had a quick meeting with the Baseband Underlord (Ken, no ham call - yet).
> 
> He recommended?a TI OMAP connected to Gemma through (if needed) a custom FPGA. 
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> http://focus.ti.com/paramsearch/docs/parametricsearch.tsp?family=dsp&sectionId=2&tabId=2218&familyId=1525&paramCriteria=no
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> Thoughts, suggestions, critique?
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> Does anyone already have (or have familiarity with)?a TI OMAP EVM? 
> 
> More soon,?-Michelle W5NYV 
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> 
> Potestatem obscuri lateris nescis. 
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