On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Martin O'Shield
<mar...@windycitysdr.com>wrote:

>
> William,
>
>
> Thanks for making me aware of this:
>
> 100Khz - 20Ghz for their SDR boards, but their Front ends are:
>
> RFE0108 100 kHz to 10 GHz Radio Front End
>    High performance radio receiver front end with frequency tuning range
> of 100 kHz to 10 GHz and capable of processing up to 450 MHz of
> instantaneous RF bandwidth.
>
> All Impressive INDEED!
>
> I wonder what the pricing for ThinkRF products are and what will the
> BladRF USB
> be priced at?
>
>
The bladeRF is definitely nowhere close to what the thinkRF folks are doing
- but the market segments are different as well.  The thinkRF guys are much
more into high performance/SIGINT whereas bladeRF is good performance and
highly integrated yielding a lower cost at the sacrifice of bandwidth.

The bladeRF is based on the LMS6002D RF transceiver with documentation here:

  https://github.com/chemeris/lms6002-documentation

The $400 price tag along with the 300MHz - 3.8GHz tuning range, 28MHz of
instantaneous bandwidth and bus powered over USB 3.0 superspeed to get
5Gbps full duplex are the biggest selling points.  Full schematics can be
found on the support page or directly:

  http://nuand.com/bladerf.pdf

It's a good SDR for a very palatable price.

Brian
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