Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] nVidia's Tegra 4 has SDR - the i500 LTE soft modem from Icera

[Marcus D. Leech]

> I don't have high hopes for this specific chip - I guess the IC will 
> be hard to buy and the modem feature on built devices will hard to 
> hack, lacking source and documentation for its drivers, just as 
> Android devices are hard for cyanogenmod developers to hack with.
>
> But these news do give some hope, the hope that more accessible 
> high-end ARMs chips like TI's and Freescales' will follow up and 
> incorporate these features in the future. Indeed, I am already working 
> on a beaglebone-based SDR and this would be great.
It looks to me like this SoftModem chip is just an array of speciality 
CPUs.  What I want to see is details of ADC/DAC and the RF-to-baseband
  transceivers -- those aren't part of the same chip.


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Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
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