Re: Fw: [Discuss-gnuradio] first weekend compiling gnuradio

[Eric Blossom]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 02:25:57PM -0800, cfk wrote:

>  Thank you Matt. I'll wait patiently (or perhaps impatiently).
> 
>  Three Points (all unrelated ramblings)
> 
>  1. I have been spending the day reading the last year and a half of the
> archives. I'm up to the Windows Python mystery right now. Its all very
>  interesting and I would suggest this course of action for another newbie as
> there are a lot of pearls buried in this archive. Including the directory
> structure, src/gnu/examples, Microtune tribulations, care & feeding of
> autoconf, where to search for knowledge in the directory tree
> (src/gnu/examples) and a lot more.

I encourage you to add pages to the wiki that either duplicate or
reference items in the mail archive that you found particularly
useful.  ``A newbie's guide to wrapping your head around GNU Radio''.

My main project for February is some major housecleaning of the code
and directory rearrangement.  If all goes according to plan, the code
should be much more comprehensible and confrontable.  We'll have test
code for the examples and have them all located in a single hierarchy
instead of spread all over the place.

>  2. I get the impression that DSP stuff is a mystery to many folks besides
> myself. I did a board design with an AD2189 a couple of years ago and it was
> recommended that I buy the book "e, the story of a number" ISBN
> 0-691-03390-0 and it really helped in understanding all those complicated
>  formulas with e raised to the jwt power and complex numbers. It is written
> as a historical perspective for non-mathematicians such as myself.

A good practical intro book for DSP is "Understanding Digital Signal
Processing" by Richard Lyons (ISBN 0-201-63467-8).

>  3. If there is a modest front end board that needs to be layed out, I am
> quite proficient in Orcad and Orcad Layout and can produce a Gerber database
> ready for fab. Let me know if that might help some of the front-end,
> down-conversion activities.

Thanks for the offer!

>  Back to reading the end of the Python Mystery and the rest of the archive
> from Aug 2002 to the present.

Eric