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.