Cell phones in the last approx *20*+ years have been SDR based...we started production of a dual core processor with an instruction set specifically enhanced for SDR that ran part of the GSM radio for handsets in S/W (as well as the voice codecs) in about 1993 when I worked at Motorola. I also recall about 93/94 shipping a dual core software radio to Bosch for FM/AM radio's for cars. SDR is already ubiquitous, more radios in production today employ it than don't. 99.999% of SDR is hidden and embedded, in a closed subsystem, within a fixed function product.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 4:34 AM, Sylvain Munaut <246...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > I am kind of confused as to what you mean by "state of the art". I > > personally would consider any SDR to be pretty state of the art; it has > been > > around for some years, but it is by no means common place. > > ?!? > > Cellphones made in the last 10+ years are all SDRs. Same thing for the > network equipment (probably even more so). > Pretty much all test equipment with signals analysis has an SDR inside > > Not really sure how much more common place you can get. > > The fact that there are more and more cheap devices where you can > extract the IQ data and use with other apps than just the vendor > provided stuff is recent-ish. But SDR's themselves are insanely > common. > > > Cheers, > > Sylvain Munaut > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >
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