[Hackrf-dev] good/preferred platform?

[Matt Hillman]

I have had some success with HackRF and beaglebone black. I did a brain
dump of setting it all up from source in Angstrom here:

https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/2014/06/18/beaglebone-black-gnu-radio-and-hackrf-one/
 On 24 Aug 2014 18:36, "Michael Ossmann" <mike at ossmann.com> wrote:

> A BeagleBone Black should be considerably better for SDR than a
> Raspberry Pi, primarily due to CPU features.  There are some NEON
> optimizations in GNU Radio, but I'm not sure how mature they are.
>
> For general purpose GNU Radio experimentation it is best to have a fast
> x86-64 processor.  GNU Radio makes heavy use of floating point
> operations at very high speeds.  I've been very happy with the
> performance of the Lenovo Carbon X1.
>
> A performance tip: Be sure to run volk_profile to optimize GNU Radio for
> your platform.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 03:57:20PM -0700, dan farmer wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks -
> >
> > I’d love to lug around my hackrf; from what I can gather the super
> cheap-n-small computers such as the raspberry pi and slightly faster
> beaglebone blacks might not have the oomph necessary to really handle the
> output.
> >
> > I’ve seen pix of the portapack but isn’t quite what I’m looking for…
> ideally something pretty basic with some sort of unix/linux-like environ
> (although if I had a surface 3 I might bend my rules :)), keyboard input at
> least possible (or in the case of a tablet, perhaps an on-screen one.)
> >
> > Anyone have a small form factor platform that they’re happy with in
> conjunction with the HRF?  Tablets, laptops, …., etc.?  Perhaps just strap
> it to the back of a macbook pro?
> >
> > Tnx for any anecdotes, tales, insights, pointers, etc.
> >
> > dan
> >
> > ¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><(((º>
> >
> >
>
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