Continuing down the path blazed by Ettus Research with their RF daughterboards for the USRP, Epiq Solutions (http://www.epiq-solutions.com) is pleased to announce the Bitshark USRP RX (BURX) daughterboard. The BURX daughterboard provides a single channel RF receiver capable of tuning between 300 MHz and 4 GHz, supporting RF channel bandwidths up to 50 MHz. It provides the high performance and flexibility necessary to handle a multitude of present and future wireless radio standards, including:
-GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) -iDEN (800 MHz) -UMTS (Bands I-XIV) -CDMA2K/EVDO (450/800/1900/2100 MHz) -TD-SCDMA (1920/2025/2400 MHz) -WiFi/802.11b/g (2.4 GHz) -WiMAX/802.16e/d (2.3-2.7 GHz, 3.3-3.8 GHz) -LTE (Bands 1-40) -TV Whitespace (400-700 MHz) ...plus many others The BURX daughterboard provides the gain control and configurable baseband channel filtering required to optimize receiver sensitivity. It also includes a temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) that provides a highly-stable low-jitter reference clock. This clock signal is accessible (via a U.FL connector) for use as the USRP's reference clock and/or for multiple-input (i.e. MIMO) configurations using more than one BURX daughterboard. The USRP reference clock can also be used as the clock source for the BURX daughterboard if desired. GNU Radio software support for the BURX daughterboard has been completed and will be integrated into the GNU Radio git tree under the GPLv3 license. Epiq Solutions is also currently developing open source GNU Radio applications that will demonstrate the flexibility and performance of the BURX daughterboard. BURX daughterboards will be available in April 2010 for $750 USD (commercial use) or $550 USD (academic use). Boards are being reserved for customers on a first come, first served basis. Please visit: http://www.epiq-solutions.com/products_overview.php for details on how to reserve a card and for additional information. Epiq Solutions' mission is to provide reconfigurable radio solutions that open up access to the ever-increasing list of radio standards. The BURX daughterboard is our first step in this process, and we are excited to contribute to the hardware and software ecosystem of the USRP and GNU Radio. -- Regards, John Orlando CEO/System Architect Epiq Solutions www.epiq-solutions.com _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
