... to support antenna/phantom power via a new device argument "bias"
(to match Airspy's existing bias power syntax). 0=disable and 1=enable.
I also added a device argument to control bias power at transmit time. I
named this option differently - "bias_tx" - to avoid accidentally
enabling bias power in transmit mode when an LNA may be attached in an
input amplifier configuration.
Original patch provided by Brad Hein
folowing rtl-sdr commit 89f73b183f2dac9c0dd75beca4cf2f77f20c4a36
So far we had 32 * 256KB which was a bit overkill, 15 are more than
enough.
15 was chosen instead of 16 because at least on Linux there seems to be
a system-wide limit of 63 transfers (when they are 256KB large), so 4
dongles can be used on a single machine without lowering the default
transfer number.
Unfortunately libhackrf still doesn't offer a way to enumerate devices
*or* to open a specific device by index or it's serial number. Thus we
have implemented a rather hack-ish way to detect the presence of a
device by trying to open it and closing right after that.
features:
- gain control for AMP & VGA
- frequency error correction
- automatic baseband filter
- up to 20M sampling rate
limitations:
- no DC offset correction implemented (yet)
- high sampling rates may not work on slow machines
the following TX named gain stages are available:
RF: MGA-81563, switchable 0 or 14dB
IF: MAX2837 VGA, 0 to 47dB in 1dB steps
features:
- gain control for LNA & VGA
- frequency error correction
- automatic baseband filter
- up to 20M sampling rate
limitations:
- no DC offset correction implemented (yet)
- no RX preamplifier control (disabled by default)
- high sampling rates may not work on slow machines