Yes, as Leif says, the unit works just fine as a passthru device. I already have it working with my own SDR program. It supports TX as well, though I haven't tested that aspect yet. I doubt I'll make use of the FPGA personally; while cool, I want my program to be compatible with "dumb" devices like the the RTL units and so there's not a lot of value in special-casing the bladeRF.
-Scott On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Adam Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is also the bladeRF hardware, which is available and in stock. > > I have a unit and it is a very nice piece of kit. It achieves 40 > > MS/s @ 12 bit over USB 3.0. It uses a Cypress FX3, so even on USB 2 > > it should be able to saturate the bus. Unfortunately, the price went > > way up after their Kickstarter ended. Also, the SW is still in > > development and not polished yet. > > Just to confirm, are you saying you can use the bladeRF as a proper SDR > like the RTL devices? I did look at it a while back, but to me it > looked like it required all the SDR processing to happen within an > onboard FPGA, so I assumed it wasn't a PC-based SDR. > > Cheers, > Adam. >
