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Novena main board with a prototype Myriad-RF module bottom-right We were honoured and absolutely thrilled when Bunnie and Xobs saw our Novena RF module design and decided to add it as a stretch goal for the crowdfunding campaign. We have to admit that, for a little while,…

Yesterday Altera and Lime Microsystems announced that they have “entered into a Strategic Cooperation Agreement focused on jointly developing and promoting programmable solutions for a diverse range of broadband wireless markets”. On what this will mean in practice, the announcement goes on to state that: The agreement will result…

We are excited to announce that SNOWLeo SDR has joined Myriad-RF as an incubation project. SNOWLeo SDR is a low cost software-defined radio platform which comprises of the SNOWLeo module, an interface board and the Myriad-RF 1 module. Software support is provided for MATLAB and GNU Radio, enabling the rapid…

Adding a 300MHz-3.8GHz SDR transceiver to the currently crowdfunding open hardware platform that can be configured as a laptop or desktop. An open hardware laptop, that you are free to modify and extend as far as is practical, is the dream of many an open source advocate. Now, thanks to…

We’re delighted to announce that the Zipper board — an interface adapter which enables the Myriad-RF 1 module to be used with an FPGA development system with either an FMC or HSMC interface — is now available for purchase. At present Zipper can be bought from DigiKey and…

Last week Lime Microsystems launched their second generation field-programmable RF (FPRF) device, the LMS7002M. This improves on the tried and tested LMS6002D by providing a dual-transceiver which is 2×2 MIMO capable, with frequency coverage extended all the way down to 50MHz, and that is based on a 65nm CMOS process…

We’re delighted to welcome the Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio (RASDR) project, which is developing a low cost, high performance SDR receiver for radio astronomers and educational institutions, that is based around the Reference Platform RF module plus a USB 3.0 interface board. Key features: Two channel simultaneous receive…

Updates continue to be made to the A2300 Project to enhance both the platform-independent C/C++ API and support for the GNU Radio tools (via Ettus UHD).  In the next month, we will be uploading the HDL modifications for enabling ASR-2300 transmit functions as well as more open-source firmware updates…

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…