Talk
We recently gave a talk and a workshop at 33rd Chaos Communication Congress aka 33C3 on funny and not so funny issues one faces while building a high performance SDR. If you missed 33C33, video recordng of the presentation is available here (and slides are attached here).
When we prepared the talk, we listed all challenges Sergey had while debugging PCIe, but the list went so long that we had to move it to a separate workshop. So this talk was focused on more generic issues without going deep into PCIe internals, which I hope will be interesting for a wider audience working on SDR devices and aiming to achieve maximum performance.
Update
We know the blog has been silent for a while, but the talk shows some of the challenges we have been facing in getting the most out of XTRX. And the significant effort that is being put into making a solid product which “just works” – as far as it’s possible with SDR of course 🙂 .
At this moment we’re very close to place an order for the next prototyping run which (if no new critical bugs shows up) will be available for selected early adopters.
Stay tuned!
XTRX - A Fairwaves tiny SDR 
January 28, 2017 at 4:41 pm
hi, I went to your talk at ccc, it’s very impressive that xtrx could be the first commercial ready sdr component, is it there any way to order one for testing?
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February 11, 2017 at 6:10 pm
We will launch an early access program for a limited number of users as soon as we finish verification of the final hardware design. XTRX will be available publicly later this year.
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January 30, 2017 at 12:57 am
Thanks for sharing the progress with the world.
What is the selection process to become an early adopter ?
Cheers
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February 11, 2017 at 6:07 pm
Most importantly, early adopters should have an existing track record of working with SDR and willing to report bugs and work with us to help fix them.
We will publish a formal call for early adopters with full requirements as soon as we validate our final hardware design.
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October 5, 2017 at 4:01 am
Do count us in as one of the early adopters for beta testing. We have requisite hardware and software skills.
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October 5, 2017 at 10:05 am
Amit, we’ll keep you in mind! I would appreciate if send us a bit more information about your use case through the Contact Us form.
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June 6, 2018 at 8:43 am
Do you have RF performance evaluation of Tx/Rx chains?
e.g.,
Tx=generating sin wave, how much is overall phase-noise, frequency stability, frequency resolution?
Rx=how much is the overall SFDR?
In our application w care a lot about the quality of measurements, have you made such evaluations?
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