Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] hardware comparison tables

[Tom Rondeau]

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Daniel Pocock <address@hidden> wrote:

There is a list of hardware at this page:

http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Hardware

Is anybody maintaining a table summarizing the GNU Radio hardware
options for easy comparison?

I can imagine that some of the following columns would be useful:
- price (board alone/raw parts/whatever)
- price (fully assembled in case)
- TX power (if TX supported) or N/A if no TX
- full duplex support
- RX sensitivity
- lower frequency limit
- upper frequency limit
- bandwidth
- sample rate/second
- sample size (bits)
- interface (or maybe one column for USB, one for ethernet, etc)
- suitability for different ham bands (e.g. HF, VHF, UHF, microwave)

There is a table on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software-defined_radios

but it doesn't specify which devices work with existing GNU Radio drivers.

This page also has a small table, comparing HackRF, bladeRF and USRP:
http://www.taylorkillian.com/2013/08/sdr-showdown-hackrf-vs-bladerf-vs-usrp.html

This isn't a bad idea, but it needs to be maintained. The second link you sent there is over 2 years old and very limited in scope.

Note that we've done an RFE talk during the last two GRCons to keep people up to date and familiar with many of the consumer options:

http://www.trondeau.com/grcon15-presentations#monday_Newman_RFEs

http://gnuradio.squarespace.com/storage/grcon14/presentations/Sep15_03_Rondeau_RFEs.pdf 

Tom