Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradios place in the state of the art of SDR

[Ian Buckley]

Cell phones in the last approx *20*+ years have been SDR based...we started production of a dual core processor with an instruction set specifically enhanced for SDR that ran part of the GSM radio for handsets in S/W (as well as the voice codecs)  in about 1993 when I worked at Motorola. I also recall about 93/94 shipping a dual core software radio to Bosch for FM/AM radio's for cars. SDR is already ubiquitous, more radios in production today employ it than don't. 99.999% of SDR is hidden and embedded, in a closed subsystem, within a fixed function product.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 4:34 AM, Sylvain Munaut <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

> I am kind of confused as to what you mean by "state of the art".  I
> personally would consider any SDR to be pretty state of the art; it has been
> around for some years, but it is by no means common place.

?!?

Cellphones made in the last 10+ years are all SDRs. Same thing for the
network equipment (probably even more so).
Pretty much all test equipment with signals analysis has an SDR inside

Not really sure how much more common place you can get.

The fact that there are more and more cheap devices where you can
extract the IQ data and use with other apps than just the vendor
provided stuff is recent-ish. But SDR's themselves are insanely
common.


Cheers,

    Sylvain Munaut

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