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My LimeSDR board arrived on April 26, a day before the crowdfunding campaign was launched. I made an agreement to test the board and post my experiences here on the MyriadRF blog. This is the first out of hopefully many posts I will make about the LimeSDR.

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.

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,…

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…

Alexandru Csete and Josh Blum have been busy putting together updated Ubuntu packages for GNU Radio plus various drivers, along with their dependencies. To summarise: Update to GNU Radio 3.7.9/volk 1.2 Latest gr-osmosdr with Red Pitaya support SoapyRedPitaya added UmTRX 1.0.8 Using UHD PPA The packages can be obtained…

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,…

In this post we will walk through installing the SDR module driver on the Novena platform, along with GNU Radio, before finally testing this by running up a simple FFT plotter. Before we start, please note that the canonical driver installation instructions…