[Mep-dev] TI OMAP

[Bob McGwier]

My own experiments will be done using the USRP2 initially because I can 
put it on the air and operate it full duplex.

Bob

Grant Hodgson wrote:
> 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. 
>>
>> http://focus.ti.com/paramsearch/docs/parametricsearch.tsp?family=dsp&sectionId=2&tabId=2218&familyId=1525&paramCriteria=no
>>
>> Thoughts, suggestions, critique?
>>
>> Does anyone already have (or have familiarity with)?a TI OMAP EVM? 
>>
>> More soon,?-Michelle W5NYV 
>>
>>
>> Potestatem obscuri lateris nescis. 
>>
>>
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