I know, the title is silly :)

One of the features of the Software Communication Architecture is that it uses CORBA for intercomponent communcation. This means the radio's software does not need to be located on one processing unit. For the wireless@VT symposium (http://wireless.vt.edu) I have built a small system from an Efika and an OMAP starter kit that sends short data packets using QPSK. The radio portion is the GNU Radio USRP. The USRP requires a high speed USB interface, so I had to add a USB2.o controller to the EFIKA.

Currently, the radio just started working. I'll be showing it off at the symposium later this week. I'll take a better picture that clearly shows the radio and upload a block diagram later this week.

Finally, here is a picture of the radio.