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The LimeSDR family now has a new accessory in the LMS8001 Companion Board, an add-on designed to extend the frequency coverage up to 10GHz. To launch alongside the LimeSDR Mini later this year, the LMS8001 Companion Board features a four-channel frequency shifter compatible with any version of the LimeSDR…

Receiving and transmitting ASK/OOK signals in GNU Radio Welcome to the seventh instalment of LimeSDR Made Simple. In this post we pick up where we left off in the previous, trying to mimic the simplest of radio devices. In the last instalment we got to a point where we could…

If you’re looking for an in-depth deep dive into digital radio and the inner workings of the LMS7002M and LimeSDR you’ll want to look out for Dr. Danny Webster’s Wireless Masterclass series, the first of which has been uploaded to YouTube. Based on presentations from the LimeSDR Workshop…

Back in March we hosted a 1-day LimeSDR workshop in London, in partnership with the BCS Open Source Specialist Group and Open Source Hardware User Group. For this Principle RF Design Engineer at Lime Micro, Dr Danny Webster, put together a series of presentations that provide an introduction…

The LimeSDR Mini crowdfunding campaign, launched earlier this month, is off to a flying start and is already over 130 percent funded with over 30 days still left on the clock – and now includes support for an external clock source. Designed to be fully compatible with the LimeSDR…

Receiving ASK/OOK signals in Pothos and GNU Radio. Welcome to the sixth instalment of LimeSDR Made Simple. Last time we looked at transmitting and receiving ASK (amplitude shift keying) signals in Octave. However, we mostly glossed over the modulation and techniques involved. In the next post(s) we will look…

Lime Microsystems has officially opened a crowdfunding campaign for the LimeSDR Mini, a reduced-size and reduced-cost version of the LimeSDR which offers one TX and one RX channel for just $99 for Early Bird backers and $139 thereafter. Taking place on Crowd Supply over the next month – the…

This is the fifth instalment of LimeSDR Made Simple and in the last we explored the software side of the software-defined radio, using the relatively simple to use dataflow programming environment, Pothos. Quite a break from the previous articles where we went into detail of the input stages of the…

Karl Woodward’s LimeSDR Made Simple series continues on the Myriad-RF blog with two new hands-on posts: a simple practical example and implementing an FM radio receiver through Pothos. Following on from the first and second entries in the series, Karl’s latest posts are designed to…

It’s time again for another bite sized chunk of LimeSDR. This is the fourth post in the series and while this will be our second practical exercise, it does build upon the whole series and so if you have not read the first three articles, you are advised to take…

This is the third in a series of posts that aims to make the LimeSDR platform a little more approachable. Again we will build upon previous examples and if you missed the last in the series it is available here. Last time we looked at the RX stage in…

If you subscribe to OTA via email you may have missed Karl Woodward’s second entry in the new LimeSDR Made Simple series, published earlier this week, which aims to introduce you to the concepts you’ll need to get the most from SDR in the real world. Following the…