Hello Clemens, We plan to launch home page about the same time as first prototype. We're in planning and designing stage now, so if you have something to discuss and want to influence the final hardware design - we're open for discussions and welcome you to contact us off the list.
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 19:02, Clemens Gruber <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Regards, Alexander Chemeris. _______________________________________________ A51 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lists.reflextor.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51
