RHINO
Reconfigurable Hardware Interface for Computing and Radio*
Project Description
The RHINO Project is an Open Source effort at the University of Cape Town in South Africa to provide a hardware platform and software toolchain for SDR which is both easy to use, easy to learn and affordable to a broad audience. It is hoped that this effort will consolidate and enhance the teaching and research resources available for Software Defined Radio (SDR).
Hardware Architecture
RHINO Hardware follows the same fundamental computer architecture as the
current ROACH-based CASPER hardware,
namely a single FPGA element with memory, high speed communication, and
IO expansion slots, all controlled via a processor running the BORPH
operating system. Below is an overview of the RHINO
architecture.
Status
Date | Event |
01-02-2010 | Start of Rhino Project |
01-03-2010 | High Level Design Complete, Block Diagram's released for review |
01-06-2010 | First Draft of Schematics Complete |
15-06-2010 | Second Draft of Schematics Released fro Review |
01-07-2010 | Components Database complete |
01-08-2010 | Layout Begins |
01-09-2010 | Initial Placement complete and ready for review |