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Not push back to me. As an "analog", I love SDR-SOC but what this is saying is that people may lack a fundamental knowledge when designing hardware devices that
by spacecadet 3y ago
Not push back to me. As an "analog", I love SDR-SOC but what this is saying is that people may lack a fundamental knowledge when designing hardware devices that is contributing to these challenges.
Id also push back against the article in the sense that I think the industry shot itself in the foot trying to provide too many options that all overlap. But, I do agree with the sense that minimizing the radio architecture to only what it needs to operate is smart.
- mwbajor 3y agoNot only that, but it also stems from "management" or "customers" unable to contemplate tradeoffs in the design. The reason FPGAs and RFSOCs are pushed so much in certain industries (we all know which one) is because the customer wants everything reconfigurable because they can't make decisions now, or in most cases, not competent enough to make decisions now. However, they are OK with buying a $25K+ FPGA or RFSOC which is why the market is there and also why few understand the actual art of RF design and radio architecture anymore. RF budgeting is almost non-existant. Most Jr. engineers have never seen a level diagram and the only places you will find them is in old watkins johnson app notes. SDR design is ultimately a race to the bottom in most cases in terms of good design but not necessarily cheap design.