[chbot] SDR stuff - "Field programmable RF"

[Mark Atherton]

Thanks for finding the price for the boards, not 
immediately obvious when I looked.

Looks like the larger FPGA might be the 
EP4CE115F29C8N, or similar - about US$350 from 
Digikey, so the blade US$650 price tag isn't too 
bad. Just checked and Quartus II web edition does 
support this part. Takes 180 sec to compile a 5k 
LE design here, so the idea of trying 115k... anyone got a spare Cray ?

Price tag is still higher than I would like, and 
may still explore getting some ICs, although the 
120 pin DQFN is going to be fun.

-Mark



At 12:35 p.m. 20/04/2013, you wrote:
>If you want an SDR then get a bladeRF instead, 
>it has the same front end on it, and comes with 
>an altera FPGA on it and you can even use it as 
>an FPGA front end for doing PC SDR if you 
>like.  There are two models, one with an FPGA a 
>little smaller than the DE0 nano's at 450US and 
>one with a much bigger FPGA at 650US they will 
>be available June this year for general ordering.
>
>Paul
>
>
>On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Mark Atherton <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>Fwd message from Mr Hamster, many thanks Mike
>
>Amazing chip, with emphasis on open source - 
>Field programmable RF, 3 inputs, 2 outputs, 12 
>bit convertors, 300MHz to 3.8GHz.
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-OmCCrA3z4 - 
>ignore intro which is in Cantonese, CEO is 
>English, a multi part FLC off of youtube
>
>Shame the board is US$299, I bet a Chinese knock 
>off hits the market in 12 months.
>
>With the availability of the new very much lower 
>cost PCBs out of China, I am tempted to do a custom DE0-nano board.
>
>Technology limit is the 120 pin DQFN package, 
>will need some help handling this...
>
>-Mark
>
>From: Michael Field <hamster at snap.net.nz>
>To: markaren10 at yahoo.com
>Sent: Saturday, 20 April 2013 6:27 AM
>Subject: SDR stuff...
>
>Hi Mark,
>
>I just heard about this... http://myriadrf.org - 
>has a base board to work with the DE0-nano.
>
>Thought you would be interested...
>
>The Myriad – RF board is a multi-band, 
>multi-standard RF module, based on the state of 
>the art LMS6002D transceiver IC by Lime 
>Microsystems. It has one RF broadband output, 
>one RF broadband input with digital baseband 
>interface, established via standard 
>connectorFX10A-80P. The board also provides the 
>user with pin headers for power supply, 
>reference clock, analog I/Q input/output and SPI 
>interface connections. It contains everything 
>needed for it to be connected to all the 
>available baseband (BB) chipsets, FPGAs or to run in an standalone mode.
>
>
>
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