[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: usrp alternat

[Patrick Strasser]

islam saber wrote am 2009-02-25 15:17:
> i buy fpga kit ( EZ1CUSB-12) and i want to know if i can make by this 
> kit with daughterboard the usrp or not .
>
> if not please tell me alternative design for usrp 

This board seems to be a minimal development board, really some very 
minimal and basic peripherials. The vendor claims it is good for DSP, 
but to get in to the level of an USRP you would need at least some 
highspeed ADCs/DACs. Without them you will not be able to receive or 
connect any RF signal, what is the purpose of an USRP primarily.

If you're looking for some cheaper hardware to do SDR and want to do 
some fancy soldering yourself, have a look at the SSRP:
  http://oscar.dcarr.org/ssrp/index.php

If you really want to play in the USRP-leage you will have to spend some 
money, though.

Maybe you want to read up on all this with some of the links from
  http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/SuggestedReading
There should be enough for some evenings of reading, for starters and 
for experts ;-)

Patrick
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Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast: choose any two
Patrick Strasser <patrick dot strasser at student dot tugraz dot at>
Student of Telematik, Techn. University Graz, Austria