<div dir="ltr">I personally do not want to bother with soldering the complicated packages or fiddling with complicated multilayer boards, the price tag is higher than I would like, and I cant afford it right now but its significantly better than anything I can build and more convenient and has features that what you are suggesting wouldn't bring. In addition if I get a bladeRF then I know it will work, other things not so much.<div>
<br></div><div style>I would be interested in both FPGA and PC SDR though so one which can do both is better for me.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Paul</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Mark Atherton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markaren1@xtra.co.nz" target="_blank">markaren1@xtra.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks for finding the price for the boards, not immediately obvious when I looked.<br>
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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 ?<br>
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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.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-Mark</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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At 12:35 p.m. 20/04/2013, you wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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Paul<br>
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On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Mark Atherton <<a href="mailto:markaren1@xtra.co.nz" target="_blank">markaren1@xtra.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
Fwd message from Mr Hamster, many thanks Mike<br>
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Amazing chip, with emphasis on open source - Field programmable RF, 3 inputs, 2 outputs, 12 bit convertors, 300MHz to 3.8GHz.<br>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-OmCCrA3z4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?<u></u>v=b-OmCCrA3z4</a> - ignore intro which is in Cantonese, CEO is English, a multi part FLC off of youtube<br>
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Shame the board is US$299, I bet a Chinese knock off hits the market in 12 months.<br>
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With the availability of the new very much lower cost PCBs out of China, I am tempted to do a custom DE0-nano board.<br>
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Technology limit is the 120 pin DQFN package, will need some help handling this...<br>
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-Mark<br>
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From: Michael Field <<a href="mailto:hamster@snap.net.nz" target="_blank">hamster@snap.net.nz</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:markaren10@yahoo.com" target="_blank">markaren10@yahoo.com</a><br>
Sent: Saturday, 20 April 2013 6:27 AM<br>
Subject: SDR stuff...<br>
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Hi Mark,<br>
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I just heard about this... <a href="http://myriadrf.org" target="_blank">http://myriadrf.org</a> - has a base board to work with the DE0-nano.<br>
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Thought you would be interested...<br>
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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.<br>
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