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Lime Microsystems has been working on a new, low-cost entry in the LimeSDR family of software-defined radio devices: the LimeSDR Micro, designed to fit into M.2 and mini-PCI Express (mPCIe) slots. “LimeSDR Micro represents a breakthrough in software-defined radio technology, delivering professional-grade SDR with integrated baseband processing,” the company says…

Daniel Estévez has written of his work to decode ESCAPADE, a mission launched earlier this month aboard Blue Origin New Glenn mission NG-2 and with the goal of studying Mars. “ESCAPADE is a twin spacecraft mission that will study the Mars magnetosphere. The science mission is led by UC Berkeley…

Lime Micro’s Andrew Back has demonstrated how the LMS8001 Companion Board, a programmable frequency-shifting add-on for software-defined radio boards, can expand the capabilities of the LimeSDR Mini and other SDR families to 10GHz and beyond, without the need for any special software or hardware modification. “In this simple demo, we…

Documentation for the Lime Microsystems LMS8001 Companion Board has now been made publicly available, including full details on what’s changed since its limited production run in 2017. “We are pleased to announce that documentation for LMS8001 Companion has now been published,” Lime Micro’s Andrew Back wrote in the latest campaign…

The LMS8001 Companion Board’s crowdfunding campaign is now live, and the response has been fantastic – including with questions from backers eager to use the device on the 3cm/10GHz amateur radio band for Earth-Moon-Earth communication, satellite tracking, radio astronomy, and more. “Years after the initial release of engineering samples of…

Lime Microsystems has opened pre-launch registrations for a crowdfunding campaign to deliver a new LMS8001 Companion Board – a four-channel frequency shifter which can boost the frequency range of a software-defined radio up to 10GHz. “Lime’s LMS8001 Companion Board can extend the frequency range of any of the boards in…

Researchers Ben Pearman and Anand Kumar have put a LimeSDR Mini 2.0 to use in a very unexpected way: seeing through walls, with the help of an artificial intelligence (AI) model. “We humans inhabit a world of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. We cannot directly perceive the electromagnetic fields…

Numerous hardware updates, CSRAN1 build, easier configuration and a technology primer.

The LimeSDR family is set to get a new, more flexible gateware for its on-board field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chips – in a complete rewrite which will unify all the various models together. The LimeSDR GW Project, launched this month for the LimeSDR Mini v1 and v2 and the LimeSDR…

Lime Microsystems has announced the relaunch of the LimeSDR USB Type-A, the full-size two-full-duplex-channel alternative to the popular LimeSDR Mini and LimeSDR Mini 2.0 – now in stock on Crowd Supply. “The LimeSDR is based on Lime Microsystem’s latest generation of field programmable RF transceiver technology, combined with FPGA and…

Software developer Stephen D. has turned a LimeSDR USB into a device for flooding the airwaves with Taylor Swift songs, covering the whole FM band at once: the Taylorator. “For the past two weeks or so, I’ve been working on constructing the Taylorator,” Stephen writes of the project. “The Taylorator…

LimeSDR users can now enjoy the first officially-tagged release of Lime Suite NG, the next-generation software stack – delivering a range of improvements over the legacy Lime Suite bundle. “Lime Suite NG was first announced back in May of last year and amongst other things provides greatly improved support for…