Universal Software Radio Peripheral

(USRP)

By.,
N.Sathurappan
Asso.Prof (ECE)
SEC

contents

Introduction
Matt Ettus developed the USRP board primarily for GNU

Radio users
The USRP board is an integrated board which does ADC,
DAC & FPGA.
Different kinds of USRP boards,
Network series,
Embedded series
Bus series.

USRP: Universal Radio Peripheral

The hardware solution for GNU
SDR

USR
P

USRP
2

Universal Software Ra
dio Peripheral (USRP)

4 ADC 64MS/s (12-bit)

4 DAC 128MS/s (14-bit)
USB 2.0 interface
Small FPGA
MIMO capable

1. Highest speed 480Mb/s

2. Capable of processing signals up to 16 MHz wide

Universal Software Radio

Peripheral (USRP2)

2 ADC 100MS/s (14-bit)

2 DAC 400MS/s (16-bit)
Gigabit Ethernet Interface
Larger FPGA
On-board SRAM
MIMO capable

1. 2 Gbps high-speed serial interface for expansion

2. Capable of processing signals up to 100 MHz wide

Available daughter-boards
Basic TX/RX: 1MHz 250MHz
(20dBm)
LFTX/LFRX: DC 30MHz
RFX900: 750MHz
TVRX:
50MHz-860Mhz
1050MHz(23dBm)
DBSRX:
800MHz 2.4GHz RFX1200: 1150MHz
WBX0510:
50MHz
1450MHz(23dBm)
1GHz(20dBm)
RFX1800:
1.5GHz 2.1GHz(20dBm)
XCVR2450: 2.4GHz 2.5GHz & 4.9GHz
-5.9GHz(20dBm)
RFX2400: 2.3GHz 2.9GHz(17dBm)

RFX400: 400MHz 500MHz

 Software Defined Radio Block Diagram

 RF Front End
Mixer

Antenna

Low
Noise
Amplifier

Low Pass
Filter

Low Pass
Filter

Local
Oscillator

ADC

 FPGA MUX

 FPGA DDC

 Example 2-1: Simple transmission

A simple sinusoidal wave is transmitted. We can

view it at the receiver in spectrum domain.

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