[hpsdr] OT: Picozed SDR, any experience?

[Shirley Márquez Dúlcey]

I think the OP was asking about the Zedboard SDR board, which is
indeed expensive. ($1295 through Avnet, which is where the Zedboard
site sends you to buy it. And no stock; they quote an average 8 week
lead time.) Besides the ZYNQ Z7020, it also includes an AD9361
transceiver IC which is itself a rather expensive part (around $220 in
quantity one), and the associated parts to make that transceiver
useful. The description says that the board is "factory-tuned for
optimal performance at 2400 – 2500 MHz, User-modifiable to other RF
center-frequencies from 70 MHz to 6.0 GHz" so it's not ultra-broadband
out of the box.

Zedboard makes a variety of ZYNQ-based boards. If you step up to the
ones with the big ZYNQ chips like the Z7100 they get expensive. Though
if you REALLY want to see a cringeworthy price, the SDR board with a
perpetual Mathworks license costs $38,795.



On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Terry Fox <tfox at knology.net> wrote:
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> FWIW, The Zynq 7020 has a much larger number of logic cells, block RAM, and
> DSP slices.  It would probably be worth the extra $40, assuming one can
> rebuild everything for the larger device.
>
> 73, Terry, N4TLF
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Roger Rehr
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 6:59 PM
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> Subject: Re: [hpsdr] OT: Picozed SDR, any experience?
>
>
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> Hi Bill,
>
> Actually, there IS immediate availability, and units start at around
> 249 USD [though 249 USD is Out of Stock; but 289 USD unit is not Out of
> Stock]
>
> You clicked on the "wrong" link to see what was available.
> Instead, try:
> http://zedboard.org/buy
>
> Then click on the various options.
>
> As I noted, 289 USD unit has 330 in stock, can ship immediately.
> 339 USD, 459 USD units also in stock with immediate availability.
>
> 73,
>
> Roger Rehr
> W3SZ
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