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SDR
USRP B210
Overview
The USRP (Universal Software Radio Peripheral) is a flexible and affordable transceiver that turns a standard PC into a powerful wireless prototyping system.
The USRP B210 comes straight from the R&D labs of Ettus Research providing early access to cutting edge experimental hardware covering 70MHz – 6GHz with integrated RFIC technology, a Spartan6 FPGA, and USB 3.0 connectivity. This new platform enables experimentation with wide range of applications including: FM and TV broadcast, cellular, WiFi, ISM, and more. The USRP B210 features two receive and two transmit channels, incorporates an open FPGA and includes an external power supply. It uses new Analog Devices RFIC to deliver a cost-effective experimentation platform and a high bandwidth USB 3.0 bus with up to 56 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth in 1x1 operation and up to 32MHz of instantaneous bandwidth in 2x2 operation on select USB 3.0 chipsets (backwards compatibly to USB 2.0 for 6MHz of instantaneous bandwidth). The two transmit pairs and receive pairs each share a local oscillator for fully coherent MIMO applications. With this new kit, users can develop their GNU Radio applications and seamlessly port their designs to higher performance USRP systems such as USRP N210 with industry proven 1 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity or the USRP E100 embedded form factor, both including discrete RF boards with higher sensitivity, dynamic range, and IP3 performance using the common USRP Hardware Driver (UHD) framework.
Features
- Radio functionality
- 2 Transmit, 2 Receive
- Full duplex or half duplex
- Frequency range: 70 MHz to 6 GHz
- Baseband: 12-bit ADC/DAC
- Up to to 61.44 MS/s allows up to 56 MHz of real time bandwidth per channel
- Up to 32 MHz of real time bandwidth in 2x2 MIMO mode
- USB 3.0 interfaceFPGA – Spartan 6 XC6SLX75
- Up to 3.2Gb/s sustainable transfer rates
- Supports USB 2.0 controllers
- USRP Hardware Driver™ (UHD) compatible
- Prototyping platform for Analog Devices AD9361 RFIC.
- Prototyping platform for Analog Devices AD9361 RFIC.
