LimeSDR Mini – SDR Transceiver & FPGA Development Board

The LimeSDR Mini is a low-cost software defined radio board. LimeSDR-Mini development board provides a hardware platform for developing and prototyping high-performance and logic-intensive digital and RF designs using Intel’s MAX 10 FPGA and Lime Microsystems transceiver. In comparison to the Lime SDR, the Mini has two channels instead of four and SMA connectors instead of micro U.FL connectors. Since it uses the same LMS7002M radio transceiver, it doesn't luck any power.

Features

• RF transceiver: Lime Microsystems LMS7002M
• FPGA: Altera MAX 10 (10M16SAU169C8G)
• 169-pin FBGA package
• 16 K Les
• 549 KB M9K memory
• 2,368 KB user flash memory
• 4 x fractional phase locked loops (PLLs)
• 45 x 18×18-bit multipliers
• 130 x general purpose input/output (GPIO)
• Single supply voltage
• Flash feature
• FPGA configuration via JTAG
• EEPROM memory: 2 x 128 KB for RF transceiver MCU firmware and data
• Flash memory: 1 x 4 MB flash memory for data
• General user inputs/outputs:
• 2 x dual color (red + green) LED
• 8 x FPGA GPIO pin header (3.3 V)
• Connectivity
• USB 3.0 Type-A
• 2 x coaxial RF (SMA) connectors
• U.FL connector for external clock source
• FPGA GPIO headers
• FPGA JTAG connector
• Clock system
• 30.72 MHz onboard VCTCXO
• Possibility to tune VCTCXO with onboard DAC
• External clock input via U.FL connector

Free & Open Source

The LimeSDR Mini is a free and open source project made in collaboration with the Myriad-RF project page project. As the full-size LimeSDR, it uses the host-side open source software called LimeSuite. A big part of the LimeSDR ecosystem is the Snappy Ubuntu Core app store. LimeSDR and LimeSDR Mini use the same drivers and APIs.