Dear David: Would it cheer you up any to learn, that 15+ years after the debate over UWB ended, that it's finally seeing FAR more major uptake and reasonable standardization, and actual working chips?
It did me. I was pretty scarred by that mess also, and what was it? the 272 notches the FCC demanded be cut out of it, which swamped circuit design capabilities at the time... but not as bad as you. I didn't know until recently that it had hit iphones in 2019. and was part of the airtags, nor that the baseline latency on the things was 50us, with admittedly only a 1000 bit payload - Still crippled as to distance, and total bandwidth to under 10mbits, but, power usage is *amazing*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-wideband The SPARK chips in particular have a nice looking devkit. Anyway... just as the swamp of ipx and non-interoperable email systems finally died... You can't in the end, keep a good idea down. Maybe on average it takes 25 years to settle on saner things. ... We have centuries to sort the solar system's internet out, and the more we can do to convince the next generation as to the right principles to apply to it, the better. _______________________________________________ Starlink mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink
