<div dir="ltr">LimeSDR isn't available until March 31, 2022 and is $315 from Crowd Supply.<br><br>I have no idea why these things are getting more expensive but I'd say it's the same reason some chips are hard to come by and more expensive.<br><br>Another reason for the PLUTO is <a href="http://www.albfer.com/en/2020/02/21/satsagen-2/">SATSAGEN</a>. It's really helpful for the cost.<br><br>Martin</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 9:54 PM Jacek Radzikowski <<a href="mailto:jacek.radzikowski@gmail.com">jacek.radzikowski@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">huh, did they go up so much? Last time I looked at them the price was ~$150, and sometimes it was possible to get them for a bit over $100. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">From cheap SDR boards with FPGAs, LimeSDR has Altera's Cyclone IV on board. However, the ADCs and DACs are not that great.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">BladeRF also has Altera's FPGA, a much better RF section, but also higher price.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Jacek.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 at 00:43, Martin <<a href="mailto:dcmk1mr2@gmail.com" target="_blank">dcmk1mr2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi All & Happy New Year!<br><br><div>Have you considered the ADALM-PLUTO? $229 from Digikey, 7010 (vs 7007), ships today, has more interesting stuff and can be reloaded with original software if SDR is needed. I know it's not a dev board but people do tack leads to spare GPIO pins.<br><br>@Samudra, would you like to teach a little about FPGAs? There is interest with the 50 MHz and Up club in Sunnyvale. I'm too rusty to lead and it's not a bad commute over Zoom. <br><br></div><div>73 Martin W6MRR</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 9:10 PM Samudra Haque <<a href="mailto:samudra.haque@gmail.com" target="_blank">samudra.haque@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">So it may be possible to post this project to Avnet Minized which is also zynq 7010s based </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 9, 2022, 00:04 Terry Fox <<a href="mailto:tfox@knology.net" target="_blank">tfox@knology.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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