Support for New Radio: LR1110

[syedkarim]

What is the process for evaluating the radiation/LEO-tolerance of a new transceiver for Pycubed? Specifically, the LR1110 is a particularly interesting variant of LoRa chips because it has a such a wide operating bandwidth and a GNSS engine integrated into the IC. Although it claims to only be a sub-GHz radio, we have confirmed continuous reception (with very minor drops) from 40 MHz - 1900 MHz through the LF0 port. And there is a separate port for GPS reception.

[maholli]

The LR1110 are so cool! Obviously there's a ton that goes in to investigating the radiation behavior of an insanely integrated part like the LR1110, but I've added it to my short-list of parts to consider next chance I get to do some TID testing.

There's a cool hackaday.io project that built a compact mezzanine module for the LR1110. One easy way to kick the tires on using this radio on PyCubed would be creating an interposer board between that module and the HopeRF footprint (like I did for this globalstar radio) or just spinning your own module.