- A new SDR module is coming for frame 16, adjusting the GPU slot
- Designed for C-UAS, it will detect, track and possibly neutralize Rogue drones
- Paste a processing power seriously with custom cooling for FPGA and DSP chips
We are great admirers of modular framework portable computers, since, although many portable manufacturers have moved to soldiers, making even simple updates but are impossible, the framework approach allows you to obtain the laptop you want and Make the updates you need for hardware.
You can choose the processor, the motherboard, the RAM and even the components such as the webcam, the screen, the keyboard and the expansion cards. The company even offers an RISC-V motherboard, created by Deepcomputing, and more recently, Framework announced that its laptop device 16 can now admit up to 26 TB of SSD Superfast Gen4 storage.
In 2024, the 3D CAD company of open source for its laptop 16, which provides users with the ability to print 3D custom components. In X, Lukas Henkel de Open Visions, who designs and develops innovative hardware solutions, announced that he is taking advantage of this flexibility when making a radio module (SDR) defined by software for a client in the counter-administered aircraft systems (C- Uas) sector.
Throw drones
This new product will fit into the form factor of the GPU module of frame 16, which results in what Henkel describes as a “pleasant and totally closed solution with a lot of processing power and a very high bandwidth link between the radio and the host system “.
In a subsequent publication, Henkel explained that it needs to “customize heat pipe and heat spreader for the SDR laptop frame module to cool both the FPGA and the DSP” because the reference implementation is “designed for a single heat source ” Fortunately, reports: “The form factor provides sufficient Z-HECHT for this type of modifications.”
Although Henkel does not come into details about what the SDR module or how it will work will be used, being in the C-UAS sector, we can assume that it will detect, track and potentially neutralize unauthorized or hostile drones. This type of technology is often used in military applications, of application of law and security, but it is the first time that we are being integrated so intelligently into a laptop in this way.
I am developing an SDR module for a customer in the C-UAS sector. The system will fit into the Marco 16 formactor GPU module, resulting in a good fully closed solution with a lot of processing power and a very high bandwidth link between the radio and the host system. The … pic.twitter.com/oyhyfjr6gbJanuary 3, 2025
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