The RADE paper has estimates of how much CPU is needed:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06671. Hope this helps!

-Mooneer K6AQ

On Mon, Sep 21, 2026, 6:58 PM glen english LIST <[email protected]>
wrote:

> a while back,  years now, I floated a "SM3000" project using FPGA +SoC
> (integrated) hardware.
> Then at about same time, LPCnet etc was the new kid on the block.
> Suddenly, the horsepower required took a big hike. So, project went on
> hold
>
> I have a bit more time up my sleeve, and substantial resources to make
> this happen.  I'm doing another priject right now that has a hard-burned in
> CNN into the fpga fabric (no moving weights out of memory to the
> transformers) (fpga reconfigures itself every few 100uS to adopt a
> different function )
>
> Target would be at least RADE.
> But I am not in the loop enough to understand computational requirements.
> If someone has time, they might converse with me here, or privately about
> computational requirements.
> It is also important to consider, that when there is an FPGA involved,
> computational requirements of a software  written task can be quite
> different if parallel fpga resources can be thrown at something.  IE mixed
> implementation, which can save alot of power. And saving power means a much
> simpler mechanical design, because designs that make lots of heat need more
> advanced metalwork ideas  to get rid of the heat .  But that's a bit beyond
> this discussoon.
>
> Such a design also needs plenty of capability in hand at Rev 1, because
> fearyures and scope and capability requirementts always increase.
>
> -glen
>
>
> On 22/09/2026 11:36, Ashhar Farhan wrote:
>
> We are assuming that with compression, the pa linearity holds. Which is
> usually not the case. Advantage RADE
>
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