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.
--
Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org
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