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You’re free to go about creating and giving away a 6GHz direct RF A/D chain, but I suspect that once you follow through and go to production, you’ll be charging
by cushychicken 4y ago
You’re free to go about creating and giving away a 6GHz direct RF A/D chain, but I suspect that once you follow through and go to production, you’ll be charging $2k per die too. It’s a hard problem. Very few teams on earth are capable of surmounting engineering challenges of that magnitude. Add to that: there’s very few people who truly need 6GHz direct conversion.
- kayson 4y agoIt's hard, but it's not that hard. There are at least half a dozen companies in the space, and another half dozen with the requisite RF expertise but who just don't need direct conversion, as you mentioned. This is more a commentary about open source hardware in general. Starting with a DirectRF receiver would be silly; the market is not that big.
- cushychicken 4y agoIt's hard, but it's not that hard lol if you say so homeslice