by boris_G » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:53 pm
Hi all,
I just posted a general message to the 9fans list - can't promise anything again, their email list is a bit whacky at times... tsk tsk. A number of 9fans have commented on this. However, my suggestion was to implement Styx-on-a-chip, with a payload program, in my case, my stream decoder. Of course, the sky is the limit for a payload.
My application is pretty specific to what I want to accomplish, and some may say its better served by Erlang, or Google Go, or an implementation like that. All good, I just want to see Inferno fly. If it can be done on a small H8 processor, probably without any real floating point or other facilities the Epiphany has, then it can certainly be done on the Epiphany.
Within reason, when orders reopen for the Parallella board, I will purchase one, and attach an SDR to it, see if I can get some kind of GNU Radio implementation running on it. Then it would be a case of, in parallel (so to speak) program the GNU Radio implementation to sink into the FPGA, and develop the Styx-on-a-chip, with its payload program to decode the streams I would be receiving off the 8MHz of bandwidth I'll be working with on an RTLSDR. If this is a success, I will later move to a HackRF, which will give me 20MHz of bandwidth to play with.
I can only imagine what fun it'll be to program my decoder in Limbo, Infernos native programming language... Google Go fans might have the inside loop on me on that one...
There is one other person I can think of to contact, I will contact him now.