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CITATION AND REFERENCE MANAGERS

Citation & Reference Managers Geon has leveraged citation/reference managers to aid in proposal creation and research documentation. This post explores what a reference manager is, why it is useful, and what options are available. Then, a setup guide shows our

Digital Radio Controller

Digital Radio Control (DRC) in OpenCPI

What is a Digital Radio Controller (DRC)? The DRC is a software methodology for controlling multi-channel digital radios in a way that is portable across differing radio hardware. It consists of supporting C++ classes and the drc OpenCPI component specification

BitBake

Getting Started with Meta-REDHAWK-SDR

As promised in the Coming Soon 2017 video post on YouTube, we’re excited this week to kick off a video series that will show how to get started with Meta-REDHAWK-SDR using our newly-released Manifests. This video is the bare-bones of

FrontEnd Interfaces GPS-only Device

Starting around REDHAWK 1.9, a FrontEnd Interfaces (FEI) project wizard was added to the IDE. As you walk through it though, it’s clear that this wizard is intended to quickly set up a project for developing within a specific subset

Events and Channels

  Event Channels are defined 1 as being an object that mediates the transfer of CORBA events between producers and consumers. These CORBA events are translated at runtime dynamically into various structures and primitives based on an XML definition, and

Entity Properties in REDHAWK

Introduction to the Kinds Several kinds exist which provides flexibility in architecting the system. From an object-oriented perspective, adding Properties to an entity results in a public class member on the resulting class declaration 1. Likewise, Properties can be defined

RESTful User Interfaces

A little more than a year ago, the REDHAWK team published a LiveDVD that inspired us with its Tornado-based web server and AngularJS-based client interface.  So, we moved to extend them something even more flexible feature-rich for future projects by

Multi-threading in a RH Component

Introduction A Redhawk component is itself a process that has many threads. Most notably is the serviceFunction which is normally responsible for the data processing that occurs in the component. This post will provide an example of how to increase

Using Multiport in RH

  Introduction The default behavior for a Redhawk port connection is for each connection to get all of the data. However, there are times when the output port of a component is connected to a group of follow on components,

Property Kinds: Message

  The previous two videos in this series introduced the three kinds that typically represent internal fields to your Devices and Components: execparam, configure, and allocation.  And with those three kinds we were able to see the dynamic relationships that