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Lime Microsystems chief executive officer Ebrahim Bushehri is to be featured in the next Crowd Supply Teardown Session, diving deep into the LimeSDR family of open-source software-defined radio devices – taking place on the 29th of December at 1700 UTC. The 40th in an ongoing series of interviews and hands-on…

New CI subsystem provides VoLTE capable modems for IMS testing.

A new version of the Lime Suite software bundle for the LimeSDR family of software-defined radio (SDR) devices has been released, bringing with it support for the new LimeSDR Mini 2. Lime Suite 23.11.0, available now from GitHub and in the Ubuntu Personal Package Archive (PPA) as a pre-built package…

There’s an update for LimeSDR Mini 2.0 orders placed before the 19th of October and forming part of the current production run: hardware will be reaching customers by early December. “All the PCBs and components for the next manufacturing run have been delivered to the assembly house. However, there was…

Lime Microsystems has announced an accelerator programme which will see SDR projects receive discounts on components and crowdfunding fees and additional support and promotion — and the programme’s first participant has been confirmed. “We’re proud to announce the launch of our new Lime SDR Accelerator initiative and its first participant:…

Wavelet Lab’s uSDR crowdfunding campaign, for a Lime Micro LMS6002D-powered compact single-sided M.2 software-defined radio board backed by a browser-based software platform, has successfully reached its funding goal — with hardware due to ship in February next year. “uSDR is an embedded software-defined radio (SDR) board that is optimized for…

The crowdfunding campaign for the open-hardware LimeSDR XTRX, an updated and fully-supported successor to the Fairwaves XTRX, is now open, with hardware expected to ship to backers at the end of November. Designed as a drop-in replacement for the discontinued Fairwaves XTRX, the LimeSDR XTRX puts a Lime Microsystems LMS7002M…

Wavelet Lab has officially opened crowdfunding for its compact uSDR M.2-format software defined radio board and browser-based control platform, with a little under a month left to reach its funding goal for production. Based on the Lime Micro LMS6002D field-programmable radio frequency chip and an AMD Xilinx Artix-7 field-programmable gate…

Wavelet Lab is looking to make software-defined radio more accessible, using a compact M.2 SDR module dubbed the uSDR alongside a WebUSB-connected browser-based software bundle with some impressive collaboration features. “uSDR is an embedded software-defined radio board that targets ease of use and collaboration,” Boston-based Wavelet Lab says of its…

Gabe Emerson, of YouTube channel “saveitforparts,” has built a low-cost augmented reality system which lets you peer into the skies and see satellites as they pass – acting as a microwave-frequency camera. “I’ve dabbled in radiotelescopes before, mostly as a way to use old TV satellite dishes,” Gabe explains. “However,…

The British Amateur Television Club (BATC)’s Portsdown digital TV transmission platform has received an update, bringing with it drop-in support for the using the new LimeSDR Mini 2.0. “The previous facilities that worked with the LimeSDR Mini V1 and the LimeSDR USB now also work with the LimeSDR Mini V2,”…

Vodafone has shown off a palm-size 5G base station, powered by a Raspberry Pi 4 single-board computer with Lime Microsystems software-defined radio technology inside – in an effort to make private cellular networking and edge computing more accessible. “We looked at what Raspberry Pi did for computing, in terms of…