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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News


From: alanluo
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:58:23 -0800 (PST)

Congratulations to Ettus. Hope to see more and more nice productions



Matt Ettus wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Ettus Research LLC was founded in 2004 to produce high quality, low cost 
> software radio systems, and bring these capabilities to everyone.  In 
> the last five and a half years this company, which started in a garage, 
> has shipped thousands of products to users in over 67 countries.  Those 
> products have been used for everything from mapping the earth, moon and 
> stars to tracking wildlife, from teaching signal processing to obtaining 
> a PhD., by everyone from individual hobbyists to huge research teams, 
> for communicating across a desk, under water, under ground, across town, 
> and around the world.
> 
> Today, as the next step in the growth of our company, we are very proud 
> to announce that Ettus Research has been acquired by National 
> Instruments Corporation (NI, http://www.ni.com).  NI was founded in 1976 
> to transform the way engineers and scientists around the world design, 
> prototype, and deploy systems for test, control, and embedded design 
> applications.
> 
> Below you will find answers to some questions you may have about this 
> change.
> 
> 
> What does this mean for Ettus Research LLC and its products?
> 
>       For the most part, things will stay the same.  We will continue to 
> operate separately from, but as a wholly-owned subsidiary of National 
> Instruments.  Our web address, email, phone, and postal addresses will 
> all stay the same.  All sales will continue to be direct.  The 
> additional resources the acquisition provides us will help us to serve 
> you better and faster.
> 
>       The USRP family of hardware for software radio will continue to be our 
> main product line, and it will continue to be actively developed and 
> improved.  We have several exciting new products we are working on for 
> release later this year.  We are also working on a new "Universal 
> Hardware Driver" or UHD, which will completely encapsulate everything 
> needed to control all of our hardware in a single driver.  This will 
> enable software developers to use USRP hardware without having to worry 
> about the low level details of daughterboard control, kernel drivers, or 
> other factors.  The UHD will be cross-platform, allowing use on Linux, 
> Windows, and Mac OS X.
> 
> What does this mean for GNU Radio?
> 
>       Ettus Research will continue to support and contribute to GNU Radio, 
> and the combination of GNU Radio software and USRP hardware will remain 
> our core focus.  The additional resources that a large company like NI 
> can provide will allow us to focus even more energy on improving the 
> overall capabilities of the system.  Two of the core GNU Radio 
> developers, Matt Ettus and Josh Blum, are employed by Ettus Research.
> 
>       In the future we will also likely be providing GNU Radio drivers for 
> additional hardware from National Instruments.
> 
> 
> What does this mean for LabVIEW?
> 
>       The Universal Hardware Driver will allow us to produce high-quality, 
> officially supported LabVIEW drivers for all of our hardware.  We hope 
> to have those drivers available in the coming months.
> 
> 
> What does this mean for those using Simulink, OSSIE, OpenBTS, SCARI, or 
> other software with their USRP hardware?
> 
>       Ettus Research is fully committed to enabling the use of USRP hardware 
> with any and every software platform for SDR.  The UHD will ease both 
> the technical and the licensing hurdles which have made this somewhat 
> difficult in the past.  We will be actively seeking input from the key 
> representatives of those communities in order to ensure that the UHD API 
> will fulfill their needs.
> 
> 
> Will USRP hardware be sold through National Instruments?
> 
>       In the short term, no, all sales will continue to be directly through 
> Ettus Research, but in the longer term we may offer some or all products 
> through NI's worldwide sales network as well.
> 
> 
> In summary, we will continue to bring you high quality, low cost devices 
> for software radio systems, to enable you, our users, to create 
> exciting, groundbreaking radio communication systems.
> 
> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.  Thank you for 
> your time and your support.
> 
> Matt Ettus
> President, Ettus Research LLC
> address@hidden
> 
> 
> 
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