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I’ve said it before, but 2013 will come to be seen in the RF industry as the year that open source finally broke through. Myriad-RF was the first major open source RF hardware initiative from a semiconductor company — launching back in March — but significant announcements came from many…

Delivering 26 GFLOPS performance for only 5 watts power consumption, it should come as no surprise that the $99 credit-card sized Parallella computer is generating a lot of interest for use with software-defined radio. What’s more, in addition to making it possible to run applications on a mobile power…

Low cost GSM networks created using open source technologies have been increasingly making the news, but what open source options are available for LTE?

There have been a number of inquiries about the upcoming Zipper HSMC/FMC interface adapter for the Myriad-RF 1 module. We’re afraid that it isn’t on sale just yet, but as soon as volume manufacturing starts it will initially be made available for purchase…

Myriad RF has picked up its first industry award with the NMI (the UK’s electronics industry association) declaring the decision to go open source to deliver greater innovation within the wireless sector as the best business model to come out of the UK in 2013. This gong adds to the…

Footprints from the Myriad-RF component library for KiCAD KiCad is a suite of electronic design automation (EDA) tools for schematic capture and PCB layout, that are completely open source and without any artificial limits on things such as PCB size and number of layers. The KiCad tools were used…

Hot on the heels of the DE0-Nano and FMC interface board comes Zipper, a new interface board from Azio for the Myriad-RF 1 module, that enables it to be used with FPGA development boards that have either an FMC or HSMC connector. The board can be seen above being…

UmTRX is an open source hardware transceiver and a partner project of Myriad-RF, and  the company who developed it, Fairwaves, have been deploying it to to create rural mobile telecoms networks at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. About the project The problems of rural telecoms are…

We’ve had a lot of interest in the DE0-Nano interface board that was announced on the site a few months ago. Unfortunately this board sold out very quickly indeed and Azio are not planning another manufacturing run. However, the design files remain available and anyone is free to manufacture, or…

The annual GNU Radio Conference starts in just under a week and we’re incredibly excited to be participating for the first time. On the first day there will be a presentation from Alexander Chemeris of Fairwaves on the…

Great news. Myriad has received its first award recognition with the project being named as one of the six best RF technological developments from 2013.  The listing was announced by the industry magazine Electronics Weekly and has been short listed by an independent…

Nuand’s bladeRF is an open-source software defined radio that launched earlier this year on the crowd funding website, KickStarter.  The Nuand platform combines USB 3.0 connectivity with a the same FPRF (field programmable RF transceiver) as the Myriad boards. At the heart of the board…