From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <5778ffc079ca4ad7227b37b1158b29f1@proxima.alt.za> <3b72cf2290d28c849e1f7a5ffde134a6@mikro.quanstro.net> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 07:13:01 +1100 Message-ID: From: Shane Morris To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e01183a003b09e004f1ae628e Subject: Re: [9fans] Inferno and the Parallella Topicbox-Message-UUID: b80b4fc0-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --089e01183a003b09e004f1ae628e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thanks for the interesting debate. I wish to, in the first instance, take an RTLSDR, sample 8MHz of RF spectrum, use GNU radio to "fish out" any streams, pass those streams along to the Epiphany chip, have the cores on the Epiphany chip decode the streams, and return a result. Results are time sensitive, they must be timestamped (syncfs?). Thats probably the most simple way of explaining what I need done. Erik said the chip is "powerful enough" to do full 9P, and he is probably right. I thought Styx on a chip, with a payload program of the stream decoder, might be easier to implement. These are only suggestions - I could be barking up the wrong tree. Charles - I sent you an email with further details. On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote: > > On 5 February 2014 18:03, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > >> this isn't exactly GNU Radio, but porting librtlsdr to Plan 9 would >> enable interesting signal processing applications. > > > I don't remember that from last time, but it seems a good project. > --089e01183a003b09e004f1ae628e Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Thanks for the interesting debate.

I wi= sh to, in the first instance, take an RTLSDR, sample 8MHz of RF spectrum, u= se GNU radio to "fish out" any streams, pass those streams along = to the Epiphany chip, have the cores on the Epiphany chip decode the stream= s, and return a result. Results are time sensitive, they must be timestampe= d (syncfs?). Thats probably the most simple way of explaining what I need d= one.

Erik said the chip is "powerful enough" to do= full 9P, and he is probably right. I thought Styx on a chip, with a payloa= d program of the stream decoder, might be easier to implement. These are on= ly suggestions - I could be barking up the wrong tree.

Charles - I sent you an email with further details.


On Th= u, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.= com> wrote:
=

On 5 February 2014 18:03, = Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote= :
this isn't exactly GNU Radio, but portin= g librtlsdr to Plan 9 would enable interesting signal processing applicatio= ns.

I don't remember that from last time, but it seems a go= od project.

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