- A new SDR module arrives for Framework 16, by climbing the GPU slit
- Designed for C-Uas, it will detect, track and possibly neutralize the Dones Rods
- It contains serious treatment power with personalized cooling for FPGA and DSP fleas
We are large fans of modular framework laptops – as if many notebooks have moved to tight components, making unique, almost impossible upgrades, the framework approach allows you to obtain the laptop you want and make the upgrades you need for the equipment.
You can choose the processor, the main card, the RAM and even the components such as the webcam, the screen, the keyboard and the expansion cards. The company even offers a main RISC-V card, created by DeepComputing, and more recently, Framework has announced that its laptop 16 device could now support up to 26 TB of SSD Gen4 Superfic storage.
In 2024, the company opened from the original 3D CAD conceptions for its laptop 16, giving users the possibility of printing 3D of personalized components. On X, Lukas Henkel in Open Visions, which designs and develops innovative hardware solutions, announced that it was enjoying this flexibility by creating a radio module defined by software (SDR) for a client in the aircraft systems against Reserve (C UAS) sector.
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This new product will integrate into the form factor of the GPU Framework 16 module, which leads to what Henkel describes as a “pleasant and entirely closed solution with a lot of treatment and a very wide link between radio and the host system ».
In a later article, Henkel explained that he had to “personalize the heat pipe and the heat spacing for the SDR module of the laptop at Framework in order to cool both the FPGA and the DSP” because the implementation reference is “designed for a single heat source”. Fortunately, it reports: “The shape factor provides enough Z height for this type of modifications.”
Although Henkel does not enter into the details of what the SDR module will be used or how it will work, being in the C-Uas sector, we can assume that it will detect, follow and potentially neutralize drones or hostile drones . This type of technology is often used in military applications, the application of law and security, but it is the first time that we have seen it be integrated so intelligently into a laptop in this way.
I develop an SDR module for a customer in the C-UAS sector. The system will be integrated into the GPU Formo Formor GPU module, which results from a beautiful fully closed solution with a lot of treatment power and a very high bandwidth link between radio and the host system. The… pic.twitter.com/oyhyfjr6gbJanuary 3, 2025
