UmTRX aka OpenBTS HW update

This is merely a historical archive of years 2008-2021, before the migration to mailman3.

A maintained and still updated list archive can be found at https://lists.osmocom.org/hyperkitty/list/UmTRX@lists.osmocom.org/.

Robin Coxe coxe at close-haul.com
Wed Oct 5 01:33:56 UTC 2011


Hi Alexander.  Yes, I'd definitely be interested in participating in a
hardware debug session.   I have a long-term FPGA consulting gig for Analog
Devices and may be able to get permission to use some of their high-end test
Agilent equipment in the lab on evenings and weekends if I ask nicely.

I just e-mailed my outside sales guy at Avnet and requested a quote for the
 XC6SLX75-2FGG484C<http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController/FPGA/Xilinx/XC6SLX75-2FGG484C/_/R-9951687/A-9951687/An-0?action=part&catalogId=500201&langId=-1&storeId=500201&listIndex=-1>
qty.
100 and 1000.
(I'll also get a quote from Arrow for a comparable Altera part, which will
be useful in negotiating a better price than the one they will initially
offer.)

In my spare time over the next couple of months, I'm going to attempt to add
support for a 10/100 Ethernet MAC in the USRP N210 FPGA image.

-Robin

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Alexander Chemeris <
alexander.chemeris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Attached is a new version of our schematics and PCB layout (note, they
> may differ a bit with schematics being more recent).
>
> Btw, I found diffpdf tool very useful for schematics comparison:
> http://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf.html
> It nicely highlights changes, so you don't miss something.
>
> Our current plan for hardware prototyping is like this:
>
> 1. Most important parts of PCB layout should be done by the end of this
> week
> 2. Then we have 1 week (maximum!) to do any small changes to layout we
> may want and fix bugs we (hopefully) find.
> 3. Then 1 week for the final layout polishing, adding labels, etc.
> 4. Final ACK for the layout and we push it to the fab for printing.
> Manufacturing and delivery to Moscow will take 2-3 weeks.
> 5. 1 week for assembly
>
> This is about 5-7 weeks and then we will have a lot of fun with
> hardware and software debug.
>
> Robin, do you want to get an assembled board to participate in the
> hardware debug session? :)
> Btw, could you get a quote for the FPGA from Xilinx for 100pcs?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Alexander Chemeris.
>



-- 
Robin Coxe  |  Close-Haul Communications, Inc.  |  Boston, MA
+1-617-470-8825
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/umtrx/attachments/20111004/6e634c10/attachment.htm>


More information about the UmTRX mailing list