- A new SDR module comes to frame 16 that fits the gpu -castle
- Designed for c-uas, it will detect, spore and possibly neutralize junk drones
- It packs serious treatment force with custom cooling to FPGA and DSP chips
We are big fans of frameworks modular laptops – which while many notebook manufacturers have been changed against soldered components, making even simple upgrades anything but impossible, Frameworks approach allows you to get the laptop you want and make they Upgrades you need for hardware.
You can choose the processor, mainboard, RAM and even components such as webcam, screen, keyboard and expansion card. The company even offers a RISC-V Mainboard, created by Deepcomputing, and most recently announced Framework that its portable 16 unit can now support up to 26 TB of SuperFast Gen4 SSD storage.
By 2024, the company opens Open Sourced 3D CAD design to its laptop 16, allowing users to 3D Print Custom Components. Over on X, Lukas Henkel at open visions designing and developing innovative hardware solutions, announced that he benefits from this flexibility by producing a software-defined radio (SDR) module for a customer in the disguised flight systems (c- uas ) Sector.
Taking drones down
This new product fits into the 16 GPU module form factor framework, resulting in what Henkel describes as a “nice, fully closed solution with lots of treatment effect and a very high bandwidth connection between the radio and the host system.”
In a later post, Henkel explained that he has to “customize the heating pipe and heat spreader to the frame portable SDR module to cool both FPGA and DSP” because reference implementation is “designed for only a single heat source.” Fortunately, he reports: “The form factor gives enough Z-height to this kind of changes.”
Although Henkel does not go into detail about what the SDR module will be used for or how it will work, to be in the C-UAS sector, we can assume that it will detect, trace and potentially neutralize unauthorized or hostile drones. This type of technology is often used in military, law enforcement and security applications, but this is the first time we have seen it be integrated so smartly into a laptop in this way.
I develop an SDR module for a customer in the C-UAS sector. The system fits into the framework of the 16 GPU module form factor, resulting in a nice fully closed solution with lots of treatment effect and a very high bandwidth connection between the radio and the host system. … Pic.twitter.com/oyhyfjr6gbJanuary 3, 2025
