Linux Powers First Handheld Software Radio

[wessman]

Linux Powers First Handheld Software Radio
from the please-productize dept.
posted by timothy on Monday May 12, @22:58 (pilot)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/203225

An anonymous reader writes "According to [0]this article at LinuxDevices.com, [1]Vanu Technology is demonstrating what it claims represents the world's first handheld 'software radio' using an iPAQ PDA running Linux at a [2]conference in Washington DC today. Vanu apparently has implemented the signal processing functions on the iPAQ's XScale processor, and their software uses POSIX APIs to make it platform independent. Software radios implement multiple radio standards and frequency bands in software, rather than hardware. A standard iPAQ expansion pack houses the radio transceiver."

Links:
0. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7890250038.html
1. http://www.vanu.com/
2. http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/othr/19677.htm

[isus]

a few very brave souls have gotten linux to run on their ipod...

there was an article about it in a comp magazine. if it wasn't $5 i would have bought it.

i could use that info. lol... but it said a lot about compiling the kernal, and blah blah blah. im just not very comfortable with that.