Demodulation of the 5G NR Downlink

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Please, please more of these kinds of articles on HN. The wonders of modern tech are near magic.

This used to be more of a thing here in the early 2010s, I'd love to see it return.

I really want a fully opensource 5G baseband, both phone and cell tower, that I can run on a PC or FPGA...

It's been too long that cell technology has been out of the reach of all but the best hardware hackers.

Ask and you shall receive...

RAN:

Core:

Isn't the 5G version of srsRAN/srsLTE just that?

srsLTE has been on the level of "run these 3 lines on Ubuntu" ease of use. At least for the network side of things.

While one can run srsUE for the phone side of things, there is no phone sized hardware that would function as a phone for running it.