Installing Gnu Radio on the Parallella

[tjt7a]

Yes; the Parallella should be able to handle input from a USRP.
What you will find is that the data rate will be limited.
I should make it clear that my current installation is running exclusively on the dual-core Zync. I am working on a method to port blocks to the Epiphany; at that point, I expect considerable speedups.

Sincerely,
Tom

[Gerald]

should the USRP utilize all 64 cores?

which blocks do you refer to?

[tjt7a]

[Gerald]

@tjt7a: does it mean you need to port all gnuradio blocks, which are currently written in python or c++ to c, in order to run these blocks or functions inside a block in parallel and make use of all the 64 cores?

[jeinstei]

I want in on this. With the FPGA fabric (possible SPI communication and driver for GNU radio? custom bus?) and the Epiphany cores, this seems like something that would be amazing as a resource for GNU Radio. In addition to providing support for the Epiphany, it seems like porting the DSP blocks into some form that GNU Radio could use a variable number of DSP Blocks with an interface to some sort of common driver could allow GNU Radio flexibility to use any co-processor anywhere.

Is anyone currently working on this? Is there any repository/developemnt discussions going on? I think that I'm going to need to get involved.

[Gerald]

@tjt7a: whats the status on this? can you post the github repository you are working on?

[tjt7a]

[tjt7a]

I will post the link to a repository as soon as I clean up the code and put it in a public place.

Tom

[bob.pielock]

Any hope in using this for HAM or other SDR applications? I am interested in getting one of these boards: http://www.genesisradio.com.au/G59/

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