OTA: Lime Suite 20.01.0, cuSignal Acceleration, MIT’s RFocus, and More

The Lime Suite software bundle has received a significant update, to version 20.01.0, bundling new support for the LimeRFE software-defined front end, improved tuning and PLL locking, and other improvements. In its latest release, the open-source Lime Suite library comes with support for the LimeRFE front end, following on from…
MIT RFocus (Courtesy of Jason Dorfman/CSAIL)

OTA: New LimeSuite, RISC-V LimeNET, ‘Minecraft’ Video, and More

There’s a fresh new version of the Lime Suite software stack out, version 18.03.0, which brings with it full support for the LimeSDR Mini. Released earlier this week on the Lime Suite GitHub repository, Lime Suite v18.03.0 brings with it full support for programming and controlling the LimeSDR Mini…
LimeNET RISC-V Prototype

LimeSDR Made Simple Part 8: C Examples and SoapySDR API

Welcome to the eighth instalment of the LimeSDR Made Simple series. Very early on in episode 1, we promised to work from SDR novice to API programming examples in small, bite sized chunks. Having done many of those steps it’s now time to take the final one and start programming.
LimeSDR Hacker Case

OTA: LimeSuite Update, DVB Transmission, Signal Analysis and More

The LimeSuite software bundle has been updated to version 17.06.0, bringing a selection of additions to the application programming interface (API), new gateware for the LimeSDR, and GPIO support in SoapySDR, among other improvements. Released earlier this week, LimeSuite 17.06.0 makes some major changes to its API with six new…
Heathkit RF Meter

Over The Air: LimeSuite Updates, LimeSDR 1.4, Pothos 0.4.2, IEEE Antenna Design, OsmoCon 2017, DARPA Spectrum Challenge, BLE Sniffing, FM Demodulation, and Cold-Weather Soldering Tips

Over The Air is our fortnightly round-up bringing you the latest on topics of interest to the software defined radio community, as curated by technology journalist Gareth Halfacree. It’s been a solid couple of weeks for the LimeSuite development team, with bug fixes aplenty hitting the project’s GitHub repository –…
LimeSDR (cased)

LimeSDR with native Windows and via Ubuntu VM

The crowdfunding campaign may have drawn to a close — and what a fantastic result! — but work continues in the core engineering team in order to get full scale production and testing in place, and also in the community of beta testers which have early access to LimeSDR hardware.

The LimeSDR application ecosystem

When the new Lime SDR arrives at your doorstep, you will find that its immediately usable within a variety of existing SDR applications and software stacks.

Lime Suite driver architecture

Lime Suite is a collection of software supporting several hardware platforms including the LimeSDR, drivers for the LMS7002M transceiver RFIC, and other tools for  developing with LMS7-based hardware. This post will cover the components of Lime Suite, how it supports LimeSDR, how it fits with the SDR application ecosystem,…