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The competition drew to a close last week and I have to say that judging has not been easy, on account of there being no shortage of great entries, with many more proposals for uses that we'd really love to support than boards we have available at this point in time.

We've been amazed and incredibly encouraged by the achievements of those in the community who we were able to provide with early access to LimeSDR hardware; from receiving weather satellites, to running 2G and 4G cellular base stations, and even HD TV broadcasting — the uses to which it has been put in a very short period of time far exceeded our expectations.

The latest project to join the Myriad-RF family is concerned with the creation of RF front-end modules, which can be used together with an SDR platform in order to create a custom wireless solution.

We’re pleased to announce that the User Guide for the LimeSDR open-source software defined radio (SDR) platform is now available on the Myriad-RF Wiki. This forms part of the ongoing Myriad-RF Wiki Documentation Initiative, launched in 2015 to increase the accessibility of technical documentation relating to Myriad-RF projects.

Some may have seen via Twitter, various blog posts, at Mobile World Congress back in February, or the recent EE, Lime Micro and Canonical joint announcement, that there is a particularly exciting new SDR platform on the block — the incredibly compact USB 3.0 peripheral, LimeSDR. As an SDR platform…

We are excited to announce that three new designs have been published to GitHub for boards that extend the Reference Development Kit and STREAM projects. These together provide an incredibly compact and low cost solution for prototyping wireless applications that are based on an Altera FPGA and Lime Microsystems FPRF.

Documentation is important to any project, but the accessibility of technical documentation is often at the top of engineers’ lists of pet peeves. It’s with this in mind that we’re pleased to announce an initiative which we hope will improve things considerably: a shift to wiki-first documentation for all things…

Open source designs for logic synthesis targeting FPGAs and ASICs are by no means new, with numerous industry and community initiatives that stretch back as far as the late 1990s. However, in recent years — and in particular over the last year or so — efforts appear to have redoubled, with developments that suggest that more widespread industry adoption may be on the horizon.

When I was contacted last year about making an OpenRISC-based SoC for an SDR platform I didn’t have to think twice. I have been curious about SDR and being able to combine that with my knowledge of Open Source FPGA work seemed like a great opportunity. After having talked…

We’re pleased to announce that ClockTamer is the latest project to join the Myriad-RF family. Developed by Fairwaves — who are also behind the industrial-grade dual-channel transceiver, UmTRX — ClockTamer is very much a mature project, with the version 1.0 hardware design having being published over 5…

Lets talks about drivers! Drivers exist to create a high-level interface for low-level hardware. Drivers are the intermediaries between hardware and applications. When they work well, you probably don’t notice them very much. And when they don’t, it can be a challenge to to figure out what went wrong. Recently,…

We are thrilled to announce that the STREAM board is the latest project to join the Myriad-RF family. A feature-packed FPGA development platform built around an Altera Cyclone IV device, this includes RFDIO and FMC connectors, enabling use with the…