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Very interesting. It's good to see more efforts for open source
hardware SDR kits. I wonder how it will compare to Michael Ossmann's
HackRF: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ossmann.blogspot.com/2012/06/introducing-hackrf.html">http://ossmann.blogspot.com/2012/06/introducing-hackrf.html</a>.
Myriad-RF appears to support a smaller frequency range, but the
price looks pretty good for something so versatile.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/09/2013 03:14 PM, Ben West wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Found this yesterday in the EE Times
weekly headlines:<br>
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<b>RF board takes Arduino-like approach</b><br>
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LONDON – Lime Microsystems Ltd., a developer of configurable
multi-band radio transceiver ICs, has launched an open-source RF
hardware project that it says is intended to further innovation
in wireless systems. The non-profit initiative has been launched
under the name <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://myriadrf.org/" target="_blank">Myriad-RF</a> with
its own website and includes pre-made RF boards with editable
design files that developers can freely download and use in
their own designs.<br>
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...<br>
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Right now Myriad-RF is effectively based around Lime's LMS6002D
digital-to-RF transceiver. This chip, used in small cell
basestations and suitable to support all cellular wireless
standards, includes integrated ADCs DACs and low-noise
amplifiers and covers the spectrum from 300-MHz to 3.8-GHz.
Bushehri said Myriad-RF would be open to other suppliers of RF
transceivers if they could meet the objectives of furthering
software-defined radio and field-programmable RF (FPRF) over a
similar frequency range.<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.eetimes.com/design/microwave-rf-design/4408479/Lime-forms-open-source-soft-radio-initiative?cid=Newsletter+-+EETimes+Daily"
target="_blank">http://www.eetimes.com/design/microwave-rf-design/4408479/Lime-forms-open-source-soft-radio-initiative?cid=Newsletter+-+EETimes+Daily</a><br
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://myriadrf.org/"
target="_blank">http://myriadrf.org/</a><br>
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The $300 assembled board (not bad, considering the usual cost of
PCB reference designs), along with the option to fab the board
yourself using their KiCad files, looks pretty neat. For
talking to the outside (digital) world, the board looks to have
an SPI and an 80pin header.<br>
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Indeed, this looks like it isn't the only low-cost board
targeted at software-defined radio, based on the LMS6002D. The
one below includes an FPGA and USB 3.0.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1085541682/bladerf-usb-30-software-defined-radio"
target="_blank">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1085541682/bladerf-usb-30-software-defined-radio</a><span
class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-- <br>
Ben West
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://gowasabi.net"
target="_blank">http://gowasabi.net</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ben@gowasabi.net"
target="_blank">ben@gowasabi.net</a><br>
314-246-9434<br>
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