[Commotion-dev] Open Source RF Board Myriad-RF

[Ben West]

Found this yesterday in the EE Times weekly headlines:

*RF board takes Arduino-like approach*

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
Myriad-RF<http://myriadrf.org/>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.

...

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.

http://www.eetimes.com/design/microwave-rf-design/4408479/Lime-forms-open-source-soft-radio-initiative?cid=Newsletter+-+EETimes+Daily
http://myriadrf.org/

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.

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.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1085541682/bladerf-usb-30-software-defined-radio


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Ben West
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