GSoC Project on using DSP support for GNU Radio.

Hi,
I am Ashwin Raut, currently doing my M.S. in Computer Engineering with
specialization in wireless embedded systems.
I have been working on Beagleboard and GNU Radio for almost a year now
but all my work was on two different platforms(USRP and PC for GNU
Radio and Beagleboard as a separate platform).I would like to
integrate these platforms and work on using GNU Radio with
Beagleboard.

I would like to work on using DSP support to run GNU Radio on
Beagleboard.I was able to use DSP link to run a sample calculator
application on Beagleboard(I used DVSDK and Android (rowboat
distribution) to enable DSP link.).Currently my work also consists
of writing a MAC Scheduler on GNU Radio for my Sensor Networks
project.
What i would like to do in GSoC is to run a GNU Radio signal
processing block on DSP.I was thinking of using DSP link to do that.
As i haven't yet enabled GNU Radio on Beagleboard , i am wondering if
there is support for grc when we use GNU Radio on Beagleboard. If
support is present what i would also like to do is run the FFT and
other GRC plots using DSP (as they consume lot of processing power
when used on a normal processor).

But there is one question, in existing support for GNU Radio on
Beagle board what OS is being used on Beagleboard?

Ashwin Raut.

Hi,
I am Ashwin Raut, currently doing my M.S. in Computer Engineering with
specialization in wireless embedded systems.
I have been working on Beagleboard and GNU Radio for almost a year now
but all my work was on two different platforms(USRP and PC for GNU
Radio and Beagleboard as a separate platform).I would like to
integrate these platforms and work on using GNU Radio with
Beagleboard.

I would like to work on using DSP support to run GNU Radio on
Beagleboard.I was able to use DSP link to run a sample calculator
application on Beagleboard(I used DVSDK and Android (rowboat
distribution) to enable DSP link.).Currently my work also consists
of writing a MAC Scheduler on GNU Radio for my Sensor Networks
project.
What i would like to do in GSoC is to run a GNU Radio signal
processing block on DSP.I was thinking of using DSP link to do that.
As i haven't yet enabled GNU Radio on Beagleboard , i am wondering if
there is support for grc when we use GNU Radio on Beagleboard. If
support is present what i would also like to do is run the FFT and
other GRC plots using DSP (as they consume lot of processing power
when used on a normal processor).

I haven't tried grc on the beagle board yet. Hopefully, by the time summer is here, I can make it work on the beagle. You should be able to create flowgraphs using grc on a pc and copy them to the Beagleboard though.

But there is one question, in existing support for GNU Radio on
Beagle board what OS is being used on Beagleboard?

We are using Angstrom to run gnuradio on the Beagleboard. You can build gnuradio on the BeagleBoard. It takes a while to build, but you should be able to compile modified code in a "reasonable" amount of time.

Let us know if you have any more questions.

Thanks for your interest!

Philip