Hi Ed, Challenge accepted. ;>)
In 2008, FlexRadio received a contract from the DoD to build sixteen 250 KHz instantaneous bandwidth HF receivers on a single half-slot 4 lane PCI Express card that also included spectral energy analysis of the entire HF spectrum. We were one the three companies in the world to receive early silicon for the Analog Devices AD9467 250 Msps ADCs in 2009. The engineering samples we received had hand written test checkoff by their lab engineers. This part just became generally available to the market in the last few months. The FPGA on this board is a high end Xilinx part costing many thousands of dollars. This same technology is the heart of the Spectral Capture Units used in the 6000 series. We delivered that product on schedule in late 2009. On the same contract we built another system with 32 HF receivers each with 200 KHz instantaneous bandwidth that stream VITA-49 over 1 Gb Ethernet. These are being field deployed on a regular basis through a major system integrator. We first delivered this product on schedule in 2009. Over the last year we also developed under contract a L-band receiver in a 1U chassis that has 24 independent receivers each capable of streaming 80 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth over four 10 Gb Ethernet ports. These radios use a pair Virtex6 FPGAs with a total cost in the seven figure range. We delivered the development contract on schedule last year and are in the process of building beta units for the customer. All of the above technologies are in the DNA of the new FLEX-6000 Signature Series radios. Now, don't expect the new radios on day one to have every single software feature imaginable to man. Neither did the first iPhones or iPads and they did pretty well. If that bothers you then you probably should wait. We sold a lot of new FLEX-5000s, FLEX-3000s, and FLEX-1500s this weekend in Dayton for that very reason. PowerSDR is mature, full featured and just received another free upgrade with new features only a few weeks ago. Our software focus in SmartSDR is to pick the most important capabilities and do them well. Then we will add features and capabilities based on the business case for each. Now for those who want to take part in the "game changer," they might want to get on board now. It is completely your choice. We sincerely prefer that those who buy the early radios intuitively understand the vision and want to be early participants. That is why we created the Limited Edition. Based on pre-orders in the first three days, that window probably won't stay open very long. One other fact of import, 80% of our engineers are now software engineers and growing. This was under 50% a couple years ago. If someone thinks they know our company based on the early ham experimenter days, they don't know anything about our company. If someone visited us even one year ago, they don't know our company. In the words of Bob Dylan, "The times, they are a-changin." http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bob+dylan/the+times+they+are+a+changin_20021240.html 73, Gerald Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR President and CEO FlexRadio Systems(TM) Email: [email protected] Web: www.flexradio.com <http://www.flex-radio.com/> Tune In Excitement (TM) PowerSDR(TM) is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Edward H Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm still feeling the growing pains of the 5k, not sure I'm ready to repeat > that experience. Challenge to Flex: Inspire my confidence! > > 73 Ed W2RF > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Painter > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 2:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] Which one do I want? > > At last, the voice of experience and common sense. > > G4PNX > > > > I think I will wait and see how you early adopters like the complete > > radio, including the _expected_ software. From our experience with > > PowerSDR, I am guessing that the more exotic features of the new > > software are years down the road. This probably includes full > > interoperability with many of the accessory programs we enjoy now. > > Having super hardware is nice to talk about, but this hardware needs > > super software to make it into a radio. > > > > Jerry W4UK > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flexedge mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz > This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used > for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist > who are using beta versions of the software. > > > _______________________________________________ > Flexedge mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz > This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is > used for posting topics related to SDR software development and > experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software. > _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
