[Ground-station] Space WX Station and P4G Hardware Project

[Scotty Cowling]

I am working on new project for TAPR that will hopefully do multiple 
duty as P4G radio hardware, Space Weather Station for HamSCI and a 
general SDR for experimenters and academia. It is a modular approach 
that pairs an FPGA-based Data Engine with multiple RF modules to perform 
different tasks. Hopefully we can address some of the shortcomings of 
other off the shelf hardware at a good price point for lots of 
applications. Here is a block diagram of the first Data Engine (DE). It 
can be one of several, depending on the horsepower required. (For 
example, an SoC version can be built with an FPGA that contains a dual 
ARM core and can run Linux on board.)

Here is an (early) block diagram of the DE so far.

Also attached is a block diagram of the SWS RX module, for reference.

Comments appreciated, as we are in the early phases of the design.
73, Scotty WA2DFI
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