Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Suggestion for improvement on USRP

[Berndt Josef Wulf]

On Sunday 29 October 2006 00:00, hanwen wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> Having enjoyed GNU Radio for several months, I've got two ideas to make
> improvement on USRP.
> As I know, making daughterboard synchronized to the mother boards and the
> synchronization of several motherboard will need a little modification to
> the boards. That is to change the locations of some resistors and
> capacitors.
> In the further revison of USRP, I think it's better to place some jumpers
> on boards for setting clock ralations between the boards. That'll be much
> more convenient.
>
> Another suggestion is that USB 2.0 is not fast enough for some application.
> Maybe in the future, It can be replaced by faster interface such as
> Gigabits Ethernet, 1394 or even PCI iterface.

Just another note to fill the wish list:

Place LED's at the edge of the board where they can be observed easily. The 
current design hides the LED's below the daughter boards and are hard to 
observe.

cheerio Berndt