Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: "Open-Hardware"

[John Gilmore]

> If one desired USB instead, then a simple [Cypress] EZ-FX2 USB-2.0
> card with an FMC connector on it, and whatever logic was necessary
> to grab samples from the ADC could be designed and built.

By the way, USB3 is now hitting the mainstream, with PCI boards,
motherboards, disk drives and USB sticks from all the major vendors.
It provides a significant bandwidth boost over USB2 (it's designed for
>3Gbits/sec, both ways simultaneously).  This would be very useful to
any newly designed USRP-like device.

I haven't investigated what chips could replace the EZ-FX2 in a USB3
USRP.  Oddly, the Cypress site seems to know nothing about USB3
devices!

        John