From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:53:36 +0000 (+0530) Subject: add a readme X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e9bc28bbca17674c52208572fcdb258803f16080;p=dttsp.git add a readme --- diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7c53bb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +DttSP Project + +DttSP is an open source project started by Dr.Frank Brickle and +Dr. Robert McGwier of the DTTS Microwave Society to provide code to be +used in various DSP projects with an emphasis on Software Defined and +Cognitive Radio. + +You can reach DTTS Microwave to discuss this project via Frank Brickle +or Bob McGwier or via snail-mail: + +The DTTS Microwave Society 6 Kathleen Place Bridgewater, NJ 08807 + +DttSP implements the basic modulation, demodulation, signal +conditioning, and synchronization processes required to operate a high +performance transceiver using DSP as the detection and synthesis +stages. While the development is done primarily on Linux, the code is +also available for use as a Visual Studio 6 or Visual Studio 2003 +project for Microsoft Windows®. It uses FFTW for much of the heavy +lifting. On Windows it uses Pthreads-Win32 for rational thread +synchronization under Win32. DttSP is written in ANSI-C. The basic +architectural decisions include the use of jack as the interface to +the Linux sound systems (ALSA, OSS, and PortAudio). With the use of +PortAudio, the code should be portable to Mac OS X® (not done yet, but +it will be supported immediately in the CVS tree). + + +One of the major design goals of DttSP was to provide an SDR core that +was both efficient and capable of being integrated into a number of +different application environments. For example, the full SDR +functionality can be controlled and run either locally, via a +graphical console, or remotely, over a network, without changes or +reconfiguration. Since DttSP is directly aimed at being integrated +into practical applications, a high premium was also placed on +reliability and security. There are several innovations in the design +meant to keep system overhead low. One such instance is the extensive +use of ringbuffers residing in memory-mapped files, which provide fast +one-way communication between user processes without handshaking or +intervention of the operating system. + +DttSP is the digital signal processing powering the SDR-1000: Flex +Radio and we are contributors active contributors to the open source +project associated with it. + +Who are the founders? Well, both are accurately called polymaths, but +here are some details: + +Dr. Frank Brickle, the lead architect of DttSP, pursues a dual career +in musical composition and technology. He has a Ph.D. in Music from +Princeton University. Along with musical work since childhood, he has +been involved in signal processing and computer science since 1970, +beginning his love-hate relationship with computers in 1965. His +compositions have been performed in concerts and broadcasts around the +world. He was director of the 2003 George Antheil Festival, an +international event devoted to the music of that great American +composer, who was also the patented inventor of Spread +Spectrum. Currently Frank is Secretary of the Composers Guild of New +Jersey. On the technical front, he has been the developer or +co-developer of applications and systems in a number of different +areas in communications. He is the author of many musical and +technical publications, including “Automatic Signal Classification for +Software Defined Radios” in the November/December 2003 issue of +QEX. Frank was first licensed as a radio amateur in 1962 as WB2GRK, +fell inactive after college, and returned with a vengeance in 2001 as +an unregenerate brasspounder with a new call, AB2KT. He is a member of +ARRL and an active participant in ARES/RACES. + +Dr. Robert McGwier has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown +University and works for the Center for Communications Research as a +member of the research staff. His thesis, “Regular Perturbations and +Nonlinear Filtering”, sprang from his interest in phase-locked loops +and range-rate orbit determination. Well-known as N4HY, he has been +an amateur radio operator since 1964. Bob was the cofounder of the +AMSAT-TAPR DSP project with Tom Clark, W3IWI. Bob is author of the +DSP code in the old AEA DSP1232 and DSP2232 multimode +controllers. Timewave offered these units. He was a designer and +builder on the AMSAT Microsat’s and participated in the Amsat-Oscar 13 +and Amsat-Oscar 40 projects. Bob is the current Vice President for +Engineering for AMSAT and is currently working on the AMSAT-NA Eagle +project on several software-defined radio transponders, the AMSAT-DL +Phase3 Express project where he is bringing up IPS for the onboard +computer and will author the software-defined radio for low speed +telecommand on the AMSAT-DL upcoming projects. Bob is currently +chairman of the ARRL Software-Defined Radio Working Group and a member +of the High Speed Multimedia working group. He is Bob is a member of +ARRL, AMSAT, TAPR, Packrats (V.P.) and the Frankford Radio Club. + +CVS instructions for Linux + +n4hy Last modified: Sun Mar 20 18:58:20 EST 2005 + +cvs checkout using: + +cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dttsp checkout +dttsp + +to build: + +in the pyhw directory simply run + +make + +in the jDttSP directory run + +make mkchan ipc jsdr metermon \ No newline at end of file