Ettus USRP™ B210: 2 x 2, 70 MHz to 6 GHz SDR/Cognitive Radio

Digilent's USRP B210 provides a fully integrated, single-board, Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) platform with continuous frequency coverage from 70 MHz to 6 GHz. Designed for low-cost experimentation, it combines the AD9361 RFIC direct-conversion transceiver providing up to 56 MHz of real-time bandwidth, an open and reprogrammable Spartan®-6 FPGA, and fast SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connectivity. Full support for the USRP Hardware Driver™ (UHD) software allows users to immediately begin developing with GNU Radio, prototype their own GSM base station with OpenBTS, and seamlessly 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.

The hardware is conveniently accessible through the UHD. UHD provides both a C/C++ and Python API that supports all USRP products and enables users to efficiently develop applications then seamlessly transition designs between platforms as requirements expand. UHD also offers cross-platform support for multiple industry-standard development environments and frameworks, including RFNoC, LabVIEW, and MATLAB/Simulink. To ensure users have no restrictions on how they use UHD, it is available on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS.

Resources

• Getting Started Guide for B210
• UHD Python API
• Interrogating Passive Wireless SAW Sensors with the USRP