Re: FreeCalypso progress update

2018-02-09 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Hi DS! > This is excellent news! The calibration report looks really good too. Further update: I got an email from R&S saying that the unit has been shipped, and tracking indicates that I should be getting it on Monday. > Apparently your unit has a WCDMA option installed? Yes, it does, and it i

Re: FreeCalypso progress update

2018-02-09 Thread Das Signal
Hi Mychaela, This is excellent news! The calibration report looks really good too. Apparently your unit has a WCDMA option installed? Although it's not really needed for Calypso or even LoCosto, perhaps it might come in handy if you'd like to venture into 3G (after all, the GSM network will be tur

Re: FreeCalypso progress update

2018-02-09 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Hi DS! > Many thanks for the update, Mychaela. Do you think R&S might be > convinced to lower their quote by letting them know you are just > a single individual in charge of a FOSS project, not a very large > corporation with billions of $? Good news: the issues with our CMU200 have been resolve

Re: FreeCalypso progress update

2018-02-06 Thread Das Signal
Many thanks for the update, Mychaela. Do you think R&S might be convinced to lower their quote by letting them know you are just a single individual in charge of a FOSS project, not a very large corporation with billions of $? About SMS btw, it reminded me of a bug (or rather lack of feature) on m

FreeCalypso progress update

2018-02-05 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Hello FC community, I've been asked for a status update, so here it is... My primary FreeCalypso activity right now is exchanging emails back and forth with Rohde&Schwarz people at their service center in Maryland - I sent my CMU200 to them to have it externally calibrated, as I had no way of kno

Re: FreeCalypso progress update

2017-08-04 Thread Das Signal
Hi Josh, Thanks for participating in the discussion :) With regards to FPGAs, my understanding is that it would require porting all of TI's DSP code from C64x to VHDL, plus some massive work on the RF frontend to deal with digital IQ instead of analog IQ. There would also be problems with power c

Re: FreeCalypso progress update

2017-08-02 Thread Josh Branning
Hi, As a lurker. You probably already know this but just a word of advice, In regards to the FPGA board, you will probably be after the ICE40, as AFAIK, it is the only one with an open source toolchain (that is, if it meets your requirements). Josh P.S. I would be also be interested to kn

Re: FreeCalypso progress update

2017-08-02 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Hello FC community, Time for yet another status update: * In terms of priority, my current highest one is getting the next batch of 12 FCDEV3B boards assembled. As I already mentioned, I have decided to *not* wait for the resolution of the sleep mode hw bug, i.e., not block the assembly of the n

FreeCalypso progress update

2017-07-27 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Hello FC community, It's time for an update on the various things I am working on. In no particular order: * I plan on getting my own oscilloscope for my home lab some time in the next few weeks. I don't have a close enough relationship with any of the hardware people at my day job to use one o