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BEng : Open Source Software Radio
user name
 2006-06-06 01:31:51 

  


  

    
I don't know what it is, but it sure looks cool...


The Universal Software Radio Peripheral, or USRP, is device which allows you to create a software radio using any computer with a USB 2 port. Various plug-on daughterboards allow the USRP to be used on different radio frequency bands. Daughterboards are available from DC to 2.9 GHz at this time. The entire design of the USRP is open source.

The USRP works with GNU Radio, a free-software (open source) framework for the creation of software defined radios. Both the USRP and GNU Radio work on all of the following operating systems:
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Max OS X, PPC and Intel processors
  • FreeBSD and NetBSD

 
Charles Evans
Executive Director, Free Curricula Center


 


  

  
  
   
     
    

  

    BEng : Open Source Software Radio
  


  

     user name

     2006-06-06 11:47:36
  


  

    

  


  

    This was in wired recently and has been making the rounds on the usual blogs.  Looks pretty cool--it allows you to receive any radio transmission.  This includes things we normally don't think of as radio signals, like broadcast HDTV, GPS, cell phone transmissions, etc.  It's too good of a product--only a matter of time before they find a reason to make it illegal, because it threatens a lot of business models.


On 6/5/06, Charles Evans <freecurricula.org">cevansfreecurricula.org>; wrote:




I don't know what it is, but it sure looks cool...




The Universal Software Radio Peripheral, or USRP, is device which allows you to create a software radio using any computer with a USB 2 port. Various plug-on daughterboards allow the USRP to be used on different radio frequency bands. Daughterboards are available from DC to 
2.9 GHz at this time. The entire design of the USRP is open source.

The USRP works with GNU Radio, a free-software (open source) framework for the creation of software defined radios. Both the USRP and GNU Radio work on all of the following operating systems:

  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Max OS X, PPC and Intel processors

  • FreeBSD and NetBSD







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