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RTL-SDR

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:42 am
by -N2
has anyone tried installing the supporting software to use the RTL-SDR tuner dongle for radio stuff in the Mister Linux system?

Re: RTL-SDR

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 3:29 am
by jca
Why would you do that? A Pi will be much better. Doing it in the FPGA would be interesting but the dongle is USB.

Re: RTL-SDR

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 3:46 am
by -N2
the FPGA has ARM cores, and supports USB WiFi devices, so I don't see why it should not work.

Re: RTL-SDR

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 3:56 am
by jca
What I meant was: dual ARM at 800MHz vs Pi 3B+ Quad core at 1.4 GHZ and costs $35.00.

Re: RTL-SDR

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 3:59 am
by -N2
yeah I have one, it's just another thing to setup and maintain, thus my interest in trying it on the MiSTer FPGA board

Re: RTL-SDR

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:29 am
by jca
I understand. This would require someone interested in SDR, interested to port the software to the DE01-nano. But my main concern is the processing power needed: SDR software needs a lot of processing power, including for the display. On the DE10-nano HDMI is owned by the FPGA and has no GPU.