Is Utilization of RouterBoards as 1Gbps RF signal processor possible?

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Hello,

I am an Electrical & Electronics Enginneering student in Turkey. We, a group of students, have an application that requires more than 1 Gbps. Moreover, we do not know much about RF. I saw RBM33G board. I think it would provide remarkable performance with 800MGhz dual core CPU and 256 MB RAM to our application. Could that board solve our problem?

As I said, we do not know much and this question would be silly at all.

Thanks,

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This device has 1Gbit ports, so what is your plan to get more here? Can you explain in more detail about your idea? We have products with 10Gbit ports too

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We have an application in school, that is scanning 5 GHz to 6 GHz signal from one omnidirectional transmitter, then detecting the source and moving the vehicle directly to that source within 3 seconds. I guess the ciritical part of that application is the analysis of the received signal. SDRs are generally low bandwidth and high cost. I was looking for cheap alternatives to SDRs. Then, I found RouterBoards.

I have not ever used a router. Therefore, I do not know the exact applications of these boards. However, I think they could be configured to be used in our application. I saw that MikroTik has a very large community to get help. I am wondering a RouterBoard with appropriate data rates would be suitable for our case.

Thanks for your attention.

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RouterBoards are far from SDRs. RouterOS is a closed source OS which only runs drivers made and approved by Mikrotik.

Therefore I’m guessing that you’ll have to forget about Mikrotik for your science project.

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That is unfortunate:(

Thanks


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What you need is covered more by devices like ADALM PLUTO(+) or Red Pitaya…
I saw a mention of a Chinese clone of the PLUTO+. The cost is around 300 euro.
Your reaction may be “way too much!!” but realize that it would have cost much more not so long ago.