Spike with sa44b on a microcomputer

have anyone tried to use spike with a microcomputer using the sa44b. and if so is there any you recomend

Depends what you mean by ‘micro computer’. If you are thinking something like a Raspberry Pi or some such credit card sized unit, then that won’t work. Other than the OS being Linux for these cards and no software, these small ARM processors don’t have enough processing power to operate the SH with any reasonable performance. The best bang for your buck might be a referb’d laptop with at least a dual core processor, plenty of ram and running a later version of Windows. That’s just my 2 cents worth YMMV.

John

Hi Quadsat,

I would recommend using a small form factor Windows PC like the Intel NUC line or other brick-like models. There are also several Atom based SBC computers that would run the SA44B. Also consider the Intel compute stick.

While we do provide an x64 Linux and an ARMv7-A API build on the downloads page, they are not supported and less than ideal for the SA-series of products as we have difficulty maintaining the USB throughput on Linux operating systems, and thus difficulty in providing reliable measurements.

Let me know if you have follow up questions.

Regards,
Andrew

We have an API for the SA44B that allows it to be used with a Raspberry Pi 2 (and probably on newer versions as well). It is kind of hobbled in this mode, but you can do some basic sweeps and probably even stream 40 kHz of decimated I/Q if you wish. You would be responsible for the software though.

For using Spike, an Intel NUC running Windows can be useful if size is a concern.

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