Building a GSM Base Station with Parallella and UmTRX

Posted by ash on Friday March 28, 2014 @08:33AM
from the rs-online.com dept.

http://www.rs-online.com/designspark/electronics/eng/blog/building-a-gsm-base-station-with-parallella-and-umtrx

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Re:Building a GSM Base Station with Parallella and UmTRX by bobsaccamano on Friday March 28, 2014 @09:28AM (#7487045)

Ingenuous! I wonder if a LTE base station (eNodeB) could be build similarly? That would really catalyze innovation in cellular network design.

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Re:Building a GSM Base Station with Parallella and UmTRX by ash on Friday March 28, 2014 @09:57AM (#7487228)

Unfortunately, no. Currently there are no complete and ready to use open source eNodeB implementations. SDR hardware - UmTRX - should handle LTE. Fabrice Bellard's (closed source) LTE implementation was (preliminary) tested with UmTRX.

As for Parallella - I'm not sure. I don't know enough about it to tell if its ARM core can handle CPU load required by LTE.

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Re:Building a GSM Base Station with Parallella and UmTRX by bobsaccamano on Thursday April 03, 2014 @08:25AM (#7522311)

There is Michael Ossmann's HackRF project: http://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/

But unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any news about when they plan to ship.

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