Semi-headless operation
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 5:46 pm
I am developing a test farm and my approach is to use many BladeRFs.
I have it working on single BladeRF with GNURadio-companion configuring sample rate, center freq, gain, BW etc, and custom code in FPGA hijacking the dac.i.data and dac.q.data providing modulation. ADC path is not used. Thus I/Q data to/from the PC is not used.
Each BladeRF will be at a different freq.
I want to use a low-end PC or even Windows VirtualBox for head. Once it configures the BladeRFs I don't care if I/Q data packets get dropped.
Is this a reasonable approach? Or am I asking for trouble having the PC unable to keep up?
Thanks,
I have it working on single BladeRF with GNURadio-companion configuring sample rate, center freq, gain, BW etc, and custom code in FPGA hijacking the dac.i.data and dac.q.data providing modulation. ADC path is not used. Thus I/Q data to/from the PC is not used.
Each BladeRF will be at a different freq.
I want to use a low-end PC or even Windows VirtualBox for head. Once it configures the BladeRFs I don't care if I/Q data packets get dropped.
Is this a reasonable approach? Or am I asking for trouble having the PC unable to keep up?
Thanks,