So I guess I should be the first one to ask: How will this affect the GPL and Open Sourceness of the USRP project?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Ettus <m...@ettus.com> > Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:01:25 > To: gnuradio<Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org> > Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News > > > > 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 > m...@ettus.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > >
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