[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: USRP2 questions

[Quoc Lai]

Eric Blossom wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 01:48:34AM +0300, Juha Vierinen wrote:
>> What does it mean that USRP2 can only do MIMO with eight receivers?
>> What are the options for doing MIMO with, say 16 receviers?
> 
> You would need to design and build some kind of hub that would provide
> the clocks and synchronization for the 16 receivers using their MIMO
> interfaces.  Depending on how you programmed the hub, you could just
> send the control from there, and then send the sample data over the
> ethernet interfaces on each of the 16 USRPs.
> 
> You'd need some serious computational power to process 16 channels,
> each streaming 100MB/s of data.  Sounds like fun :)
> 
> Eric

Hi Eric,

Is the hub needed for any MIMO systems using USRP2? I want to build a 
4x4 MIMO. Do I have the synchronization problem?

Quoc
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