Different versions of universal software radio peripheral usrp are major. Later, universal software radio peripheral usrp was developed as a low cost, highspeed sdr platform. Developed by a team led by matt ettus, the usrp product family is intended to be a comparatively inexpensive hardware platform for software radio, and is commonly used by research labs, universities, and hobbyists. The engine is coupled to the air interface consisting of analog circuits and antennae by analogtodigital and digitaltoanalog converters. Whereas the vna is capable of measuring the actual scattering field, the sdr could only produce amplitude information without phase. The usrp e312 and with upgraded firmware e310 supports liion battery packs e. However the flexibility is paid for by a time critical communication of the. The ettus research usrp universal software radio peripheral platform is a lowcost sdr that is commonly used for rapid prototyping and complex system design. The usrp software defined radio device is a reconfigurable rf device that includes a combination of hostbased processors, fpgas, and rf front ends. Pdf complete software defined rfid system using gnu radio. B200, as shown here, is based on xilinx spartan 6 xc6slx75 fpga and analog devices ad9364 rf ic. The usrp software defined radio standalone device consists of an onboard processor, fpga, and rf front end. Sdr software is configured for popular devices, such as the rtlsdr.
This presentation shows how the same can be achieved in an integrated fashion and with a minimum of hardware usrp 1 and rf switch ic. The goal of the project is to showcase the benefits, usability, and capability of sdr using gnu radio and the usrp family of boards. Since that time, ive gotten a lot more toys such as power supply, tyt th9800 using it as a base station until september, when ill be getting an icom ic 7300, yay. The hardware architecture combines two extendedbandwidth daughterboard slots covering dc 6 ghz with up to 160 mhz of baseband bandwidth, multiple highspeed. This paper presents a uhf rfid reader designed as a learning tool for experimentation. Fpgabased softwaredefined radio and its realtime implementation using. It offers frequency ranges up to 6 ghz with up to 56 mhz of instantaneous bandwidth. The ettus research usrp x310 is a highperformance, scalable software defined radio sdr platform for designing and deploying next generation wireless communications systems. This approach allows a different type of communication system requirements such as standard, protocol, or signal processing method, to be deployed by using the same set of. Usrp hardware and software description faculty ece.
Now the price has dropped by two orders of magnitude, to something about as expensive as a highend graphics card. You can program this device using either labview communications system design suite or an opensource software workflow, depending on the operating system you choose. Pxibased test bench developed for professional applications. Unlike previous testing setups, the hardware used universal software radio peripherals was lowcost and lowpower, thus making the measurement setup both. Different communication systems have been implemented on the usrp platform and their functionalities have been validated. Thank you to rodrigo freire py2raf for submitting his project that has cleanly turned a standard yaesu ft991a ham radio into an rtlsdr based software defined radio panadapter with no external wires, hubs or dongles. Universal software radio peripheral usrp is one of the most popular sdr platforms developed so far to support the opensource gnu radio software package. Can someone from ni please confirm that usrp2900 is using the same fpga and rf ic as b200. Universal software radio peripheral from gnuradio slashdot. A flexible software defined radiobased uhf rfid reader. The usrp hardware driver uhd software api enables crossplatform support for multiple software frameworks, including rfnoc, gnu radio, labview and matlabsimulink. While the concept of sdr is not new, the rapidly evolving capabilities of digital electronics. Usrp technology for multiband passive bistatic radar.
In this project, usability and capabilities of the sdr are studied using usrp boards. Software radio ieee conferences, publications, and resources. Software define the frequency range 1 750 1050 mhz and range 2 1500 2100 mhz. Universal software radio peripheral usrp is a universal hardware. In the following chapter some gnu radio projects like a fm rds receiver, a capture utility for the gnu. Universal software radio peripheral usrp developed for university education and radio amateurs. Usrpe series devices can be used with xilinx chipscope using the internal jtag connector. This is based on using gnu radio and its excellent graphical tool, gnu radio companion grc. This is most obviously associated with applicationspecific integrated circuit. Usrp software radio ni community national instruments. Assume that there are 10 channels in the wireless medium obtained through.
The experimental system implemented by the scientists compared the results of a vector network analyzer vna and universal serial radio peripheral usrpbased softwaredefinedradio sdr tomography device. Universal software radio peripheral usrp is a range of softwaredefined radios designed and sold by ettus research and its parent company, national instruments. The flexibility, affordability, and easeofuse make the usrp an ideal option for numerous applications ranging from simple recordandplayback devices, to spectrum monitoring systems. Labview, the usrp, and their implications on software defined radio abstract the universal software radio peripheral usrp family of products has become a popular platform for hardwarebased research and test bed validations conducted by universities in the software defined radio sdr and cognitive radio cr fields. According to this info provided by ettus, ni usrp2900 is equivalent to ettus usrp b200. Ettus research, the folks behind what has come to be regarded as the grandaddy of affordable wideband sdr hardware platforms. Coexistence of a secondary user employing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ofdm and a primary user employing frequency hopping fh is achieved.
Secondary and primary links are realized using universal software radio peripheral usrp n210 platforms. Softwaredefined radio with gnu radio and usrp2 3 in roughly three chapters, the bachelor thesis covers software defined radio based on the open source project gnu radio and the universal software radio peripheral usrp and usrp2. Ettus research specializes in software defined radio sdr systems. Further information on how to use chipscope can be found in the xilinx chipscope pro software and cores user guide ug029. Hi all, i would like to prototype an algorithm using usrp 2943r 120mhz and labview or labview communication. Compare to the commercial rfid reader with fixed circuits and physical mac layer parameters, the uhf rfid reader presented in this. A software defined radio or better known as an sdr, is a softwarebased radio platform that offers flexibility to deliver the highly reconfigurable system requirements. We designed a usrpbased channel sounding measurement setup figure 1 with a 16antenna circular array to estimate the spatial characteristics of the radio channel. With this operating system, a person may tune shortwave broadcasts, amateur radio, aeronautical, maritime, or other signals received at remote servers around the world. Cognitive radio exploits the capability provided by sdr to add an intelligent, adaptive nature to operations. Evolving cellular communication networks with softwaredefined. A softwaredefined radio sdr is a communication system that performs many of its required signal processing tasks in a programmable digital signal processing dsp engine. The module allows designers to quickly measure waveforms from the ic based on programming code, the better to understand the relationship of hardware and software in an sdr. First of all, the algorithm applies to the communication systems that are frequency division and time slot based.
In this paper, we present a software radiobased approach using universal software radio peripherals usrps, which. Radio frequency identification rfid, as one of significant techniques applied in the internet of things iot domain, is widely used in recognition and itemlevel tracking. The usrp b200mini series of sdr modules combine commercial fpgas and. Usrp software defined radio device national instruments.
This software reader is an open source project by cgran, based on a software defined radio and a usrp hardware frontend. The results were so good that they also brought their gold standard racal ra3791 to the game, and the results are surprising. Usrp in conjunction with gnu radio is a very powerful tool to develop sdr based wireless. Applications the leader in software defined radio sdr. Gqrx is a software defined radio receiver for funcube dongle fcd, rtl2832ubased dvbt devices rtlsdr, universal software radio peripherals usrp and osmo sdr devices. Softwaredefined radio sdr is a radio communication system where components that have been traditionally implemented in hardware e. Bachelor thesis softwaredefined radio with gnu radio and. Usrp technology for multiband passive bistatic radar by white lion thursday, december 06, 2018 software defined radio past, present, and future. Prototyping a software defined radio receiver based on. Gqrx is free and open continue reading gqrx sdr receiver. The usrp software defined radio device is a tunable universal software radio peripheral usrp transceivers for prototyping wireless communication systems. Usrp software defined radio standalone device national.
Softwaredefined gps receiver on usrpplatform sciencedirect. It used to be insanely expensive to acquire this technical equipment. This software supports radios from many manufacturers, all shown on this page. The usrp software defined radio device include options that range from lower cost options with fixed fpga personalities to highend radios with a large, open fpgas and wide instantaneous bandwidth. The usrp platform addresses a wide range of rf applications from dc to 6 ghz. Software defined radio is a rapidly evolving technology that is generating widespread interest in the receiver industry. Implementation of fm transceiver using software defined radio. Implementation of fm transceiver using software defined. Ils is a radio based system that has been used as far back as 1938 and earlier.
Ettus research the leader in software defined radio sdr ettus. Open source software defined radio using gnu radio and usrp sunita barve, aditya akotkar, amit chavan, awadhesh kumar, manoj dhaigude. Note that the product code n310 refers to the module consisting of mother and daughterboard, the daughterboard itself is referred to by its codename, magnesium. Each version performs the transformation between the rf bandpass and bb lowpass domains, however, the integrated circuits do not offer a builtin hwsw interface to connect the. Skywave linux is a 64 bit live system providing installed and configured software for accessing software defined radio servers locally and on the internet. A cognitive radio based solution to coexistence of fh and. The sdr software backend comprises of the soft base station.
The analog interface portion contains four analog to digital converters adc and four digital to analog convertors dac. The adcs operate at 64 million samples per second msps and the dacs operate at 128 msps. Implementation of softwaredefined radio using usrp boards. In this paper, a novel approach has been introduced to implement a nonrealtime softwaredefined gps receiver using a usrp platform and gnu radio software. Modern analog and digital communication systems development. And if thats not the case, please specify the fpga and rf ic used by usrp2900. Researchers demonstrate sdrbased wireless tomography. The n310 is a 4channel transmitterreceiver based on the ad9371 transceiver ic. A flexible software defined radiobased uhf rfid reader based on the usrp and labview wang yuechun, ka lok man jin kyung lee department of computer science and software engineering xian jiaotongliverpool university suzhou, china yuechun. I will try to explain this simple algorithm to you in the most understandable manner possible. Here the universal software radio peripheral usrp b200 board is u sed. It is developed by a team led by matt ettus for the gnu radio users 6. New listing software defined radio development board rtl sdr 1mhz to 6ghz 8bit.
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