October 2006
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Meeting Minutes
(Note: meeting attendees are encouraged to add their own minutes)
The meeting started at around 6:30 with an informal "meet, greet and eat" session. Pizza and soda were provided and a good time was had by all.
At around 7:00 Matt Ettus gave his presentation on software defined radio and the Universal Software Radio Peripheral. Power consumption of the USRP is probably above what one would consider ideal for a mobile device, but for base station operations there are some clear advantages. Matt reminded us that during the development of the WCDMA standard, there were over 100 different revisions of the spec. If mobile phone vendors had to deploy new hardware for each minor revision of the spec, the cost would be astronomical. SDR is a technology that can increase system flexibility dramatically with marginal increases in cost. The USRP is a "standard" platform for building SDR applications. The USRP is intended to be used with the GNU Software Radio software. Matt is reachable at matt at ettus dot com.
Sometime around 7:45, Steve Rudinsky and Shrenik Mehta of Sun Microsystems began their talk about the OpenSPARC project. Sun has "opened" the RTL for the Niagra SPARC, allowing external entities to create derivative works based on their technology. Simply RISC is an Italian company that has taken parts of the OpenSPARC IP, combined it with cores from the OpenCores project to produce the design for a SoC suitable for use in embedded platforms.
I put up a post with my own summary. Not really minutes, but I figured someone might find them useful. - Miker
