Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRCon13 Hardware Giveaway!

[Ian Buckley]

> 
> It's also interesting to see that 3 out of 5 are LMS6002D based
> hardware. This chip sure gets around ...
> 
> 

Well the reason why it "gets around" is that it's done poorly competitively 
against other devices in the top tier customer accounts, thus they are force to 
scratch around and find any possible business. Sadly for us the nature of this 
segment of the Semiconductor market is such that the most successful 
manufacturers know who their major target customers are and are focused solely 
on winning their business, whilst maintaining almost paranoid design security 
in the process in what they perceive as a very competitive space. We have to be 
realistic that we, as a market segment are both tiny, and built around a core 
principal of extensive public technical information disclosure, and that closes 
the door to access some technologies. 

-Ian