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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News
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alanluo |
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News |
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Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:58:23 -0800 (PST) |
Congratulations to Ettus. Hope to see more and more nice productions
Matt Ettus wrote:
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>
>
> Ettus Research LLC was founded in 2004 to produce high quality, low cost
> software radio systems, and bring these capabilities to everyone. In
> the last five and a half years this company, which started in a garage,
> has shipped thousands of products to users in over 67 countries. Those
> products have been used for everything from mapping the earth, moon and
> stars to tracking wildlife, from teaching signal processing to obtaining
> a PhD., by everyone from individual hobbyists to huge research teams,
> for communicating across a desk, under water, under ground, across town,
> and around the world.
>
> Today, as the next step in the growth of our company, we are very proud
> to announce that Ettus Research has been acquired by National
> Instruments Corporation (NI, http://www.ni.com). NI was founded in 1976
> to transform the way engineers and scientists around the world design,
> prototype, and deploy systems for test, control, and embedded design
> applications.
>
> Below you will find answers to some questions you may have about this
> change.
>
>
> What does this mean for Ettus Research LLC and its products?
>
> For the most part, things will stay the same. We will continue to
> operate separately from, but as a wholly-owned subsidiary of National
> Instruments. Our web address, email, phone, and postal addresses will
> all stay the same. All sales will continue to be direct. The
> additional resources the acquisition provides us will help us to serve
> you better and faster.
>
> The USRP family of hardware for software radio will continue to be our
> main product line, and it will continue to be actively developed and
> improved. We have several exciting new products we are working on for
> release later this year. We are also working on a new "Universal
> Hardware Driver" or UHD, which will completely encapsulate everything
> needed to control all of our hardware in a single driver. This will
> enable software developers to use USRP hardware without having to worry
> about the low level details of daughterboard control, kernel drivers, or
> other factors. The UHD will be cross-platform, allowing use on Linux,
> Windows, and Mac OS X.
>
> What does this mean for GNU Radio?
>
> Ettus Research will continue to support and contribute to GNU Radio,
> and the combination of GNU Radio software and USRP hardware will remain
> our core focus. The additional resources that a large company like NI
> can provide will allow us to focus even more energy on improving the
> overall capabilities of the system. Two of the core GNU Radio
> developers, Matt Ettus and Josh Blum, are employed by Ettus Research.
>
> In the future we will also likely be providing GNU Radio drivers for
> additional hardware from National Instruments.
>
>
> What does this mean for LabVIEW?
>
> The Universal Hardware Driver will allow us to produce high-quality,
> officially supported LabVIEW drivers for all of our hardware. We hope
> to have those drivers available in the coming months.
>
>
> What does this mean for those using Simulink, OSSIE, OpenBTS, SCARI, or
> other software with their USRP hardware?
>
> Ettus Research is fully committed to enabling the use of USRP hardware
> with any and every software platform for SDR. The UHD will ease both
> the technical and the licensing hurdles which have made this somewhat
> difficult in the past. We will be actively seeking input from the key
> representatives of those communities in order to ensure that the UHD API
> will fulfill their needs.
>
>
> Will USRP hardware be sold through National Instruments?
>
> In the short term, no, all sales will continue to be directly through
> Ettus Research, but in the longer term we may offer some or all products
> through NI's worldwide sales network as well.
>
>
> In summary, we will continue to bring you high quality, low cost devices
> for software radio systems, to enable you, our users, to create
> exciting, groundbreaking radio communication systems.
>
> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Thank you for
> your time and your support.
>
> Matt Ettus
> President, Ettus Research LLC
> address@hidden
>
>
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- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, (continued)
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Matt Ettus, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Don Fanning, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Jeff Brower, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, David Burgess, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Don Fanning, 2010/02/05
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