Interesting FPGA board

[Jacek Radzikowski]

Mini is a bit cheaper, $199. but also expected to ship at the end of March.
Damn chip shortage :/

Jacek.
kw4ep


On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 at 01:05, Martin <dcmk1mr2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> LimeSDR isn't available until March 31, 2022 and is $315 from Crowd Supply.
>
> 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.
>
> Another reason for the PLUTO is SATSAGEN
> <http://www.albfer.com/en/2020/02/21/satsagen-2/>.  It's really helpful
> for the cost.
>
> Martin
>
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 9:54 PM Jacek Radzikowski <
> jacek.radzikowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> From cheap SDR boards with FPGAs, LimeSDR has Altera's Cyclone IV on
>> board. However, the ADCs and DACs are not that great.
>> BladeRF also has Altera's FPGA, a much better RF section, but also higher
>> price.
>>
>> Jacek.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 at 00:43, Martin <dcmk1mr2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All & Happy New Year!
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> @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.
>>>
>>> 73 Martin W6MRR
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 9:10 PM Samudra Haque <samudra.haque at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So it may be possible to post this project to Avnet Minized which is
>>>> also zynq 7010s  based
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jan 9, 2022, 00:04 Terry Fox <tfox at knology.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Regarding today's discussion on tacos about FPGAs, this (Blackboard)
>>>>> looks rather interesting.  It's not costly, and has some neat peripherals.
>>>>>
>>>>> Real Digital Signal Processing - Hackster.io
>>>>> <https://www.hackster.io/adam-taylor/real-digital-signal-processing-0bea44?mc_cid=b16a7a12ba&mc_eid=65c2c46a0c>
>>>>>
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