Yes, as Leif says, the unit works just fine as a passthru device. I already have it working with my own SDR program. It supports TX as well, though I haven't tested that aspect yet. I doubt I'll make use of the FPGA personally; while cool, I want my program to be compatible with "dumb" devices like the the RTL units and so there's not a lot of value in special-casing the bladeRF.
-Scott
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Adam Nielsen a.nielsen@shikadi.net wrote:
There is also the bladeRF hardware, which is available and in stock. I have a unit and it is a very nice piece of kit. It achieves 40 MS/s @ 12 bit over USB 3.0. It uses a Cypress FX3, so even on USB 2 it should be able to saturate the bus. Unfortunately, the price went way up after their Kickstarter ended. Also, the SW is still in development and not polished yet.
Just to confirm, are you saying you can use the bladeRF as a proper SDR like the RTL devices? I did look at it a while back, but to me it looked like it required all the SDR processing to happen within an onboard FPGA, so I assumed it wasn't a PC-based SDR.
Cheers, Adam.