Tag: Wireless

Get the latest news on developments in the wider community and topics including wireless, embedded and open source silicon.

CRU: Neural Networks, Open Baseband, RISC-V, and More

It’s been a strong fortnight for machine intelligence fans, starting with Arm’s Robert Elliot and Mark O’Conner publishing a white paper on the company’s Arm NN machine learning platform and its optimisations for use on low-power embedded devices. “We expect machine learning to become a natural part of programming environments,… Read More

OsmocomBB Open-GSM Mobile Baseband Fernvale Port in Progress

The team behind postmarketOS has written of initial progress in porting OsmocomBB, an open GSM mobile baseband, to more modern and readily-available hardware – paving the way to a fully open GSM stack running on a mobile handset. “There is already a free software implementation of a GSM baseband called… Read More

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CRU: Open Cellular, RISC-V Progress, Mbed LoRaWAN, and More

AB Open’s Andrew Back has published a look back at how the world of open source cellular networking has changed over the last six years, including the growth of the Osmocom project. “As exquisitely arcane as it may seem to the uninitiated, cellular infrastructure is very much within the… Read More

Arm Adds LoRaWAN Stack to Mbed OS 5.8

Arm’s Jan Jongboom has announced the addition of a LoRaWAN stack to Mbed OS, as one of the new features added to the latest Mbed OS 5.8 release. “Arm is heavily invested in advancing the LoRaWAN standard. We’re an an active member of the LoRa alliance, and we were… Read More

Six Years of Progress in Open Source Mobile Infrastructure

A look at open source cellular progress over the past six years and more recent developments which suggest that a bright future lays ahead. Six years ago today The H – Open published an article I wrote entitled, Building a GSM network with open source. In this I covered… Read More

CRU: Circumference, the Pi 3 B+, El Correo Libre, SDR, and More

Ground Electronics, AB Open’s manufacturing division, today unveils a new “datacentre-in-a-box” platform targeting software development, testing, and education: the Raspberry Pi-powered Circumference. Presented to the public for the first time today ahead of a crowdfunding campaign launch in the coming weeks, Circumference is designed to offer all the functionality of… Read More

Lime Micro Working on RISC-V LimeNET Base Station

Lime Microsystems are working with SiFive to build an open wireless base station featuring the former’s field-programmable radio frequency (FPRF) IC and the latter’s RISC-V processor technology. Building on the existing LimeNET platform, which pairs the open LimeSDR software defined radio with x86 host hardware, the prototype design replaces the… Read More

CRU: PULP Launches, RISC-V Fedora, LoRa, and More

The PULP (Parallel Ultra Low Power) Platform, a joint project between ETH Zurich and University of Bologna, had a busy February beginning with the release of the PULPissimo RISC-V microcontroller core, designed to take over from the more basic PULPino. “Today we are happy to announce PULPissimo, a new single-core… Read More

Outernet Claims 71,572km LoRa World Record

Outernet, a project to provide multimedia data bursts via satellite to otherwise disconnected populations, has announced what it believes to be a world record for LoRa communication distances: a 71,572 kilometres round-trip. Designed to provide multimedia content delivery where no traditional infrastructure is available – from less-developed countries through… Read More

The Things Network Launches Collos Geolocation Integration

Integration with the Collos collaborative location service from Semtech enables geolocation via TDOA and RSSI, with the option of WiFi augmented TDOA for WLAN enabled nodes. Initiator of The Things Network, Wienke Giezeman, this morning announced that geolocation over LoRa is now available on The Things Network. This comes… Read More

Particle Announces Embedded Mesh Network Development Boards

Internet of Things (IoT) specialist Particle has announced the impending launch of a trio of development boards with Bluetooth 5 mesh networking capabilities, alongside Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Wi-Fi, and cellular connectivity. Designed to make it easier to deploy sensor networks and control systems where traditional infrastructure isn’t available, Particle’s… Read More

CRU: OSHCamp 2018, OpenPiton, LoRaWAN and More

The Open Source Hardware Camp 2018 is set to take place in Lincoln on the 30th of June and 1st of July, and the call for talks and workshops is now open. While the event has an overall theme of, naturally, open source hardware, there is no overriding topic list… Read More