High Performance Software Defined Radio

An Open Source Design

Updates

January 28, 2012 openhpsdr.org svn service restored.

Resource Information

Wiki:
Community_Portal

The OpenHPSDR git repository has a new home. TAPR has agreed to take over care and feeding of the SVN service on their collocated server. I've spent the past little while working with Dale and getting the data transferred and set up from the old server.

https://github.com/TAPR/

Verilog code from Kirk KD7IRS Verilog Code class,

Software Resources

DSP SDR Resources:

The following are key librarys used in the development of current SDR software.

wdsp - https://github.com/g0orx/wdsp Dsp by Warren Pratt. NR0V

DttSP - http://dttsp.sourceforge.net/ Dsp Library used in many packages.
FFTw - Fast Fouier Transform Library in C.
GSL - http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ GNU Scientific Library

Radio Interface Software:
The following are open-source SDR software, that can be modified to use HPSDR hardware.

Microwave SDR - https://sourceforge.net/projects/uwsdr.berlios/
GNU Radio - http://gnuradio.org/
linhpsdr - http://g0orx.blogspot.com/
SDR-Shell - https://code.google.com/archive/p/sdr-shell/ (receive only)
CWSkimmer - http://www.dxatlas.com/CwSkimmer/ CwSkimmer
Linrad - http://www.sm5bsz.com/
Two very interesting projects by Bob Cowdery:

pylink-sr - http://code.google.com/p/pylink-sr/ Python based SDR simple interface (receive only)
acorn-sdr - http://code.google.com/p/acorn-sdr/ Python based SDR simple interface

Digital Mode Interface Software:
Fldigi - http://www.w1hkj.com open source code for many digital modes.

Example Verilog Code from Bill Tracey KD5TFD:
http://www.tracey.org/wjt/sdr1k/Xylo/9850Control.zip

Verilog Tutorials and Resources:
http://www.whoishostingthis.com/resources/verilog/
http://www.asic-world.com/verilog/veritut.html
http://www.doulos.com/knowhow/verilog_designers_guide/
http://www.veripool.org/
http://www.verilog.com/VerilogBNF.html

Other FPGA Resources:
http://opencores.org/
Architecture and Component Selection for SDR Applications

JTAG Programming:

  • Programmer: http://www.minford.ca Byteblaster knock off, works great (tnx Bob N4HY)
  • A TAPR kit is planned for a ByteBlaster MV according to Steve N7HPR. This will serve as a programmer for the Reflock II, and can be used for Altera FPGAs as well. (tnx Steve N7HPR)
  • If you go to eBay and search on Altera, you will see programmers pop up. One Canadian company sells a clone for about $30.00. (tnx Steve N7HPR)
  • Altera has their ByteBlaster JTAG programmer info available at http://www.altera.com/literature/lit-cables.jsp (tnx Ray WB6TPU)
  • A homebrew version of the Byteblaster cable http://www.min.at/OE1RIB/FPGA/ (tnx Ray WB6TPU)
  • For Opensource JTAG programming software, (supports some Altera parts, not sure if it supports the parts currently under consideration) see http://urjtag.org/ (tnx Ray WB6TPU)
  • There is a very readable explanation of how JTAG works, together with examples and sample code, fpga4fun.com (Xylo supplier) site. http://www.fpga4fun.com/JTAG.html For someone like me who is new to JTAG I found it very useful. (tnx Phil VK6APH)

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