GNU Radio is a software development toolkit that provides signal processing
blocks to implement software radios. It can be used with readily-available
low-cost external RF hardware to create software-defined radios, or without
hardware in a simulation-like environment. It is widely used in hobbyist,
academic and commercial environments to support both wireless communications
research and real-world radio systems.
GNU Radio has filters, channel codes, synchronisation elements, equalizers,
demodulators, vocoders, decoders, and many other elements (in the GNU Radio
jargon, we call these elements blocks) which are typically found in radio
systems. More importantly, it includes a method of connecting these blocks
and then manages how data is passed from one block to another. Extending GNU
Radio is also quite easy; if you find a specific block that is missing, you
can quickly create and add it.
GNU Radio applications are primarily written using the Python programming
language, while the supplied, performance-critical signal processing path is
implemented in C++ using processor floating point extensions, where
available.
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Notable changes:
- Switch to using GitHub
- Drop the patch for the old manpage
- Sync DESCR with the actual manpage
- Use INSTALL_MAN to install the manpage, pointed out by Matthew Martin
As discussed with him, remove Kyle Isom from MAINTAINER (ENOTIME).
OK sthen@
HIDAPI is a multi-platform library which allows an application to interface
with USB and Bluetooth HID-Class devices on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS
X. On OpenBSD (like on FreeBSD), the backend uses libusb-1.0 to communicate
directly to a USB device. This back-end will of course not work with Bluetooth
devices.
setproctitle option, reported by henning@.
- patch to enable setproctitle by default, there doesn't seem a
huge amount of point hiding it behind a config flag.
Qodem is a from-scratch clone implementation of the Qmodem
communications program made popular in the days when Bulletin Board
Systems ruled the night. Qodem emulates the dialing directory and the
terminal screen features of Qmodem over both modem and Internet
connections.
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