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Re:BladeRF 2.0 micro by acd on Sunday December 02, 2018 @05:21AM (#18581726)
The cheapest way is to start with a RTL SDR tuner and for example Gnuradio.

If you want to experiment with celluar mobile radios LTE you need a LimeSDR, BladeRF and a help processor.

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Re:BladeRF 2.0 micro by rsync on Sunday December 02, 2018 @01:30PM (#18583659)
"If you want to experiment with celluar mobile radios LTE you need a LimeSDR, BladeRF and a help processor."

Why would you need a LimeSDR and a BladeRF ?

I have done plenty of (rx only) GSM/LTE functions with only the (v1) BladeRF ...

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Re:BladeRF 2.0 micro by snaky on Monday December 03, 2018 @09:24AM (#18588932)
If you really want LTE, it's more about xtrx than LimeSDR and BladeRF.
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Re:BladeRF 2.0 micro by yasp on Sunday December 02, 2018 @12:37PM (#18583347)
What is a help processor?
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Re:BladeRF 2.0 micro by acd on Sunday December 02, 2018 @01:10PM (#18583548)
Help CPU I meant, something accelerating the signal processing from the software defined radio often a FPGA, field programmable gate array.
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Re:BladeRF 2.0 micro by iwiririwo on Sunday December 02, 2018 @09:15PM (#18585910)
In context of GnuRadio and similar, do any projects already utilize FPGA acceleration as offered by USRP?

From what I've seen, it all happens on the CPU.

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