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This module is basically just a 3G baseband chip on a board. By your definition, no circuit that contains a chip would be open source.
by fsh 7y ago
This module is basically just a 3G baseband chip on a board. By your definition, no circuit that contains a chip would be open source.
- _-___________-_ 7y ago"just a 3G baseband chip" does hide an enormous amount of complexity. The point is just that this design contains both non-open-source hardware and non-open-source software (running on the 3G baseband chip). It's still mighty cool!
- krilovsky 7y agoIt's very cool indeed, even if it was all closed source :)
- krilovsky 7y agoExcept it's not "just" a 3G baseband chip. That chip[0] runs a closed source software that even contains a Lua interpreter. That's a proprietary binary blob that I don't know what it does, so this is not something that I would call "open source" even if the controller is open source. [0] https://simcom.ee/modules/wcdma-hspa/sim5320/ https://simcom.ee/modules/wcdma-hspa/sim5320/
- saalweachter 7y agoBoy howdy, you are not going to like to hear what happens when those radio signals leave your cellular telephone.