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

2013-04-24 Thread est
Hello, just an update for the official i500 spec whitepaper. http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/116757/NVIDIA_i500_whitepaper_FINALv3.pdf On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Lin HUANG wrote: > Well, for this case, is the solution with multiple RF modules plus one BB > module OK? The BB modules for d

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

2013-01-16 Thread Lin HUANG
Well, for this case, is the solution with multiple RF modules plus one BB module OK? The BB modules for different bands are almost same, right? Or do you think a very wide band RF module plus a BB module is better? I'm not expert on chipset design. What's your opinion? There are different levels o

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

2013-01-15 Thread est
> In consumer electronic products, ASIC is always the best performance-price choice. Even with LTE you have to deal with 12 freq. bands? On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Lin HUANG wrote: > ASIC is always the best performance-price choice. ___ Discuss

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

2013-01-15 Thread Lin HUANG
Thanks for your opinion sharing. I'll read the links you gave. I'm thinking that the advantage of software radio is its flexibility but this flexibility is constrained by standards of telecommunication. I mean when you create a telecom device you have to follow standard, so that less space is left

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

2013-01-14 Thread Albert Chun-Chieh Huang
Hi, Lin, According to Icera's previous product lines, there is no any documentation for instruction sets. I think their market is the same as Qualcomm's, i.e. cell phone manufactorurs. TI has a digital signal processor C6670, which targets base stations. It contains some coprocessors, e.g. turbo e

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

2013-01-09 Thread Lin HUANG
Hi Albert, If that is as you said, Icera won't open the instruction set and develop tool, and all the software are encrypted. Then this chipset is not suitable for people like GNU Radio guys to DIY something. So, what is the major market of this chipset? Cellphone manufactor? Let them to develop m

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

2013-01-08 Thread Albert Chun-Chieh Huang
According to this web page: http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/30024-icera-i500-is-programmable-lte And the features of Icera's previous platforms: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia-icera-products.html On the photo from CES, Icera i500 platform has 8 processors on it, each one contains its own

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

2013-01-07 Thread Alex Zhang
Can anybody explain the difference between this softmodem and other existing wireless baseband programmable processors? My understanding is that, also as Marcus mentioned, it provides more flexibility by this array of special CPUs instead of the prefixed functions/blocks, within this chip. Otherwis

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

2013-01-07 Thread 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

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

2013-01-07 Thread Aylons Hazzud
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

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

2013-01-07 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:08 AM, est wrote: > http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/07/nvidia-i500-soft-modem/ > > From Icera's previous products list, looks like the bandwidth is 5~10MHz > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia-icera-products.html > > Is it possible that Tegra 4 is yet another cheap SDR

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

2013-01-07 Thread est
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/07/nvidia-i500-soft-modem/ >From Icera's previous products list, looks like the bandwidth is 5~10MHz http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia-icera-products.html Is it possible that Tegra 4 is yet another cheap SDR solution like rtlsdr?