By supporting a wide variety of development environments on an expansive portfolio of high-performance RF hardware, the USRP platform is the SDR platform of choice for thousands of engineers, scientists and students worldwide for algorithm development, exploration, prototyping and developing next-generation wireless technologies across a wide variety of applications.
The USRP family of products is designed for RF applications from DC to 6 GHz, including multiple-antenna (MIMO) systems. Example application areas include white spaces, mobile phones, public safety, spectrum monitoring, radio networking, cognitive radio, satellite navigation, and amateur radio.
NI, through the Ettus Research brand, offers a premium software-defined radio portfolio combining ease of use and a robust open-source software community. Leveraging the power of the USRP Hardware Driver&#; (UHD), engineers have access to an ecosystem of software options, from open-source to graphical system design.
The open-source GNU Radio software code repository helps engineers interface with hundreds of active members supporting other users and growing the codebase.
Through this open-source community, GNU Radio software continues to evolve and address more applications including RF and communications system design encompassing both MAC and PHY research, spectrum monitoring and signal intelligence, and wireless sensors and tracking.
Among other software options, engineers can program with a graphical system design approach using NI LabVIEW software. With NI and Ettus software-defined radio hardware and LabVIEW, they can prototype their wireless systems faster and significantly shorten their time to results. NI and Ettus offer a complete platform with an option to reuse existing software tools for simplified programming in a unified design flow that scales from design to deployment.
Overview
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The USRP B210 provides a fully integrated, single-board, Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP&#;) platform with continuous frequency coverage from 70 MHz &#; 6 GHz. Designed for low-cost experimentation, it combines the AD RFIC direct-conversion transceiver providing up to 56MHz of real-time bandwidth, an open and reprogrammable Spartan6 FPGA, and fast SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connectivity with convenient bus-power. Full support for the USRP Hardware Driver&#; (UHD) software allows you to immediately begin developing with GNU Radio, prototype your own GSM base station with OpenBTS, and seamless transition code from the USRP B210 to higher performance, industry-ready USRP platforms. An enclosure accessory kit is available to users of green PCB devices (revision 6 or later) to assemble a protective steel case.
Experimentation with Low-cost SDR
Experiment with the USRP B210 across a wide range of applications including: FM and TV broadcast, cellular, GPS, WiFi, ISM, and more. Users can immediately begin prototyping in GNURadio and participate in the open-source SDR community. Full support by the UHD software allows seamless code reuse from existing designs, compatibility with open-source applications like HDSDR and OpenBTS, and an upgrade path to industry-ready USRP systems to meet application requirements. Here are some examples of what you can do with a USRP B210.
B210 System Architecture
The integrated RF frontend on the USRP B210 is designed with the new Analog Devices AD, a single-chip direct-conversion transceiver, capable of streaming up to 56 MHz of real-time RF bandwidth. The B210 uses both signal chains of the AD, providing coherent MIMO capability. Onboard signal processing and control of the AD is performed by a Spartan6 XC6SLX150 FPGA connected to a host PC using SuperSpeed USB 3.0. The USRP B210 real time throughput is benchmarked at 61.44MS/s quadrature, providing the full 56 MHz of instantaneous RF bandwidth to the host PC for additional processing using GNU Radio or applications that use the UHD API. For detailed throughput capabilities in various SISO and MIMO configurations, please see the USRP B200/B210 Benchmark Table.
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