[Ground-station] Remote Lab updates and upgrades

[Michelle Thompson]

We've upgraded our FPGA stations in Remote Lab West. This will ripple
outward to Remote Lab South as well.

There are three stations now available.

1) zc706 + ADRV9009
Intended to continue support for space and terrestrial broadband
transceiver work for Haifuraiya and similar projects.

2) zcu102 + ADRV9002
Intended to serve Neptune, the OFDM low-latency drone and aerospace
datalink project, and similar projects.

3) PLUTO SDR
Remote JTAG access.

The ADRV9371 will be retired and offered for sale.

The zcu106 has been set aside in reserve upon request. The video chip on
the zcu106 is desirable for Neptune, but the zcu102 has much better tools
support at this time.

The Trenz gear for the ADRV9371 will be offered for sale.

The USRP X310 will be retired and offered for sale.

Why?

The 9371 did not get designed in to long-term commercial work out there in
the marketplace like it looked like it would. It's an excellent chip with
JESD204B interface and a lot of solid design.

The 9009 is a successor to the 9371 and has been designed into long-term
commercial products. It has JESD204B interface as well and it did get
support in the market that the 9371 did not manage to get. It's much easier
for us as an amateur and volunteer project to adapt to the 9009 than to
keep doing extra work to use the 9371. We have already seen the benefits in
terms of quicker response from Analog Devices, Mathworks, and active
individual developers with respect to the 9009 path than the 9371.

The 9002 was selected for drone and aerospace applications and has good
support.

If you're on #fpga or #neptune you can see the progress in getting these
stations accessible and our blocks integrated and demos working over the
air.

Thank you to the many people making difficult and ambitious work like this
possible! There is a very long list of people to thank, from individuals in
the community, to participants on the project teams, to the companies and
organizations we collaborate and work with, and multiple foundations that
have generously funded our work.

Want to get more involved?

https://www.openresearch.institute/getting-started/

-Michelle Thompson
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