Hello Alexander, is there a project homepage of this sdr module suitable for running a bts or is it at the moment just an idea to make this kind of hardware?
best regards, Clemens On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 13:02 +0300, Alexander Chemeris wrote: > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:09, darren <[email protected]> wrote: > > But I will confess I am a bit bemused by the timescales being issued for > > hardware to be ready, with so many companies now offering cheap prototyping > > and PCB services why does it need to take 6 to 12 months to get a handful of > > boards available for testing and using ? > > I'm a software guy myself, so I know how it looks like for you. > In short: > 1) It's a part-time project for us at least until we find an investor. > You're welcome > to support the project by investing your money into it. > 2) This is not "just a clone". We're changing pretty a lot of USRP design. > 3) Long lead time and long manufacture time also add to the total. And "cheap" > prototyping services are not that cheap, if you want high-quality and fast > manufacture. > 4) We need to debug hardware, which is not like debugging software. It > consumes > quite a lot of time. Especially when it comes to RF part. > 5) Then we need to write firmware and host software for our hardware, which > in turn should be debuged and tested. Mixed hardware-software debug is not > an easy task also. > 6) And then we should fix found bugs (time!) and put this into production, > which require just a lot of time to get everything settled. And not to > mention, > that it's likely we do at least one more prototyping cycle before > manufacturing > to ensure that everything is ok. > > So yes, we can produce something in two months, but it will be just buggy > hardware with not software - not what everyone want. > _______________________________________________ A51 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lists.reflextor.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51
