[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: FUNCube dongle

[Patrick Strasser]

schrieb Alexandru Csete am 2011-02-23 00:24:

> Well, implementing it as UHD device seems a bit overkill from a
> programming point of view because one would have to implement the "audio
> source", which is readily available in GNU Radio. So a GNU Radio source
> just like the old pre-UHD USRP drivers seems to be most feasible.

Wasn't there a plan do have some abstract hardware block, that can be
_configured_ to use whatever hardware interface that is available, much
like the audio interface? It's quite painful to have code bound to some
hardware, when all you need is to rename the instantiated hardware block
to use other hardware.

AFIR some interface was proposed to reflect the capabilities of the
interface (tuning characteristics, gain, subdevice selection), which
could be set at runtime or from the config files. And of course some
logic to automatically select the available device - or the best
available device if more than one connected. I think they call it
"convention over configuration" and "configuration over code".

Just my 2€-Cent

Patrick
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Patrick Strasser <patrick dot strasser at student dot tugraz dot at>
Student of Telemati_cs_, Techn. University Graz, Austria