Hi all It is long since we had any noise from MES FSUG. Being a student of ECE I happened to use a couple of Simulation tools and Softwares of which are Simulink, Labview etc. I happened to come across a very useful and wonderful tool called GNU RADIO which comes under the Software Defined radio project, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio ) attending a workshop at Amrita, Coimbatore. Rakesh sir whom I have copied is one person who has much idea on this. http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki The above tool is far different from the current simulation tools as it calls for a replacement of many of the bulky and expensive hardware in the form of a software and a PC The tool allows us to add custom blocks into the existing system thus enhancing its scope and utiility An example of a project is using GNURADIO is the open BTS project http://openbts.sourceforge.net/ It would be of great impact to the students here if we could try to get into the contribution of new blocks by using python code so that we can implement various useful tools like the whose source code is available to us. The signal processing blocks of the existing system are written in C++ and work on Python. Some of the members here have tried out to solve this problem here. I think it would be virtuous for us as well as the future batches to introduce them to this venture. As part of this I would like to propose an idea of a BLOCKSET Creation camp whereby we could try out building some prototype in Python so that we could mobilize the venture. Every piece of contribution is valuable in this venture as it is a promising solution to the grave scenario that exists today. Lack of proper tools for educational and industrial purposes at economically viable condition. This project calls for people of expertise in Electronics and Communication engineering and Computer Science. Kindly look into this matter and put forth your suggestion. -- Thanking You Musfir Mohammed Department of ECE 8th Semester MES College of Engineering Member | IEEE : 90735154 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "MES-FSUG" group. To post to this group, send email to mes-fsug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mes-fsug-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mes-fsug?hl=en Our IRC channel #mes-fsug at irc.freenode.net. Webpage for GNULabs @ MESCE is at http://gnulabs.org/mesce/