Friday, October 8, 2010

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom Processor

Thank you for the heads up.

On 10/8/2010 2:54 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> On 10/08/2010 02:46 PM, Sharif Shaher wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are thinking of using a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor based PC with
>> multiple gigabit Ethernet ports
>> to collect data from multiple USPR2s and save that data off to disk.
>> We are hoping to be able to
>> use decimation rates as low as 4 for captures of shorts (16bit I and
>> 16 bit Q). We will be doing
>> nothing else on this PC, just capturing data. So it will host ubuntu
>> and gnuradio. Does anyone have
>> any idea if there is a throughput limit that we might be up against,
>> say for 2 USRP2s, say 4 USRP2s.
>> Has anyone successfully run gnuradio on an Atom?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sharif
>>
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> I run Gnu Radio on an Atom D510 system for narrow-bandwidth radiometry.
>
> No way in heck are you going to be able to run at 25Msps for even a
> *single* USRP2, let alone multiple ones.
> I tried a 25Msps usrp2_fft.py on my atom D510 system (which is
> dual-core at 1.6GHz), and it couldn't keep
> up.
>
>
>

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