Hello everyone.
Sorry if I’m about to ask very stupid questions, but I spent the whole weekend scratching my head over this and I can’t find clear information about it.
I want to make some application for LimeSDR in my free time. I plan to do a GUI and program the transceiver for starters. It’s just a test to get around with LimeSDR at a deeper level. But the lack of tutorials is keeping me from making huge advances. So, keeping in mind that I just want to program a radio receiver GUI to listen to the radio stations in my neighbourhood and, just for fun, displaying the FFTs, I have a few questions:
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What is the difference between the LMS API and the SoapySDR API? What should be better for me to use in my program? I have played around with the LMS API and it is relatively easy to, for starters, communicate with the board. But then I found out about the SoapySDR API and I’m intrigued about what each one represent.
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Do I need to program anything with the FPGA or the FX3 (or use them in any sense) to program a simple radio receiver? And what if I intended to use a transmit+receiver? When should I attack them?
Again, sorry if these are stupid questions, but this is bugging my mind so hard. I hope the questions are clear enough. Thank you.
Pedro