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Comment by rasz 18 hours ago

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Funny how people know Fabrice for all the software stuff but none of the hardware antics:

played with implementing analog modem DSP in software in 1999 (linmodem is ~50-80% there, sadly never finished)

probably leading to

played with implementing SDR (again DSP) using VGA output to transmit DVB-T/NTSC/PAL in 2005

probably leading to

Amarisoft SDR 5G base station, commercial product started in 2012 - his current job https://www.amarisoft.com/company/about-us

userbinator 18 hours ago

I was going to mention the last one, and his ASN.1 compiler which is likely related to his telco work:

https://bellard.org/ffasn1/

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  • cryptonector 5 hours ago

    As a maintainer of an ASN.1 compiler, I think his ASN.1 compiler must be quite awesome (it's not open source), and it's brilliant of him to make it proprietary. I bet he makes good money from it.

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