Here's my WAS (Wild As_ Speculation) for what I suspect it will be, it is not a
wish for list for what I want. Each item is followed by my % guess for the
likelihood of the specific item.
1. It consists of both new HW and SW - 90%.
2. The HW component will be some steps above the 5K for raw RF performance ,
and be priced accordingly (~$6K) - 70%.
3. If there's a new piece of higher end HW it will be DDC/DUC and not QSD/QSE -
50%.
4. If there's a new piece of higher end HW it will be performance
enhanced QSD/QSE - 50%.
5. If there's a new piece of higher end HW it will be 5000C-esque with built-in
motherboard - 60%.
6. If the there's new HW the built in motherboard will be a ATX form factor -
keeps the COGS down for a given level of CPU performance - 50%.
7. If there's the new HW it will be running Linux (also for lower COGS) - 70%.
8. Will connect to the rest of the world via Ethernet -100% (thanks to today's
hint).
9. While the new higher end HW will have a built-in PC, users will primarily
driving it through network connected external devices or other machines, PC's
etc. The built-in PC will eliminate the headaches (DPC's, Firewire and USB
chipsets etc.) caused by wildly varying end user PC hardware - 80%.
10. Support VITA 49 - 50%.
11. The new SW will embody many, but not all, of the concepts that were
bantered about on the discusion forums and lists under the guise of the "New
Architecture" several years ago - 90%.
12. There will be a iPad, and probably Android app to optionally drive the new
SW (running with or without the new HW) either remotely within your house, or
anywhere else on the web - 70%.
13. The SW will be much more modular, designed to decouple the signal
processing from the UI dsiplay functions, allows for distributed deployment -
95%.
14. The new SW will include Cognitive Radio features - 75%.
15. The new SW UI elements will have user selectable "skins" - 100%.
16. The New SW will support the 1500, 3000, and 5000 to the extent of their
respective HW capabilities - 90%.
17. The new SW will not support the SDR-1000 (would need to be done to prevent
other non Flex HW designs from taking advantage of the new game changing SW
capabilities) - 75%.
18. The new SW will not be open source - 90%.
So that's my speculative list for what I can think of for now...
Will the person who "guesses" what it actually is the closest win one of the
new radio HW boxes for being the most right???? :).
Duane
N9DG
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