I get the feeling that you would like something significantly lower cost to support 100 units. Arrow Electronics partnered with several manufacturers to develop the BeRadio (http://www.arrownac.com/solutions/beradio/). There is no driver/FPGA build for an interface to Gnuradio, but with enough students working on it, it should not be a problem. Single part price is $79 but I expect Arrow may give a significant price break for a university.
Evan Merewether - Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man - Ben Franklin -----Original Message----- From: discuss-gnuradio-bounces+evan=syndetix....@gnu.org [mailto:discuss-gnuradio-bounces+evan=syndetix....@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Ben Gamari Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:59 AM To: Manu T S; GNURadio Discussion List; usrp-us...@lists.ettus.com Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Low cost SDR hardware Manu T S <manu.t.s...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello everyone, > > A professor in my university wants to revive lab course on communication. > He wants to introduce some experiments involving SDR. For that we need > about 100 pieces of hardware( both receiver and transmitter). Buying 100 > USRP is not a viable solution for us. We can go for RTL SDR but it has only > transmitter. Does anyone know of a good solution for low cost hardware, > (transmitter + receiver or just transmitter) preferably GNU Radio > compatible, that we could opt for? > There is of course the (quite awesome) HackRF[1] which will eventually be sold for roughly $300 (not sure what the price break for 100 units might be). That being said, it's still in beta and there aren't anywhere near 100 units available at the moment. You might be able to get in touch with mossmann (CC'd) to see if you could use his production contacts to do a small production run. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
