Ettus Research™, a National Instruments (NI) company since 2010, is the world’s leading supplier of software defined radio platforms, including the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP™) family of products. By supporting a wide variety of development environments on an expansive portfolio of high performance RF hardware, the USRP platform is the SDR platform of choice for thousands of engineers, scientists and students worldwide for algorithm development, exploration, prototyping and developing next generation wireless technologies across a wide variety of applications.
The USRP software defined radio products are designed for RF applications from DC to 6 GHz, including multiple antenna (MIMO) systems. Example application areas include white spaces, mobile phones, public safety, spectrum monitoring, radio networking, cognitive radio, satellite navigation, and amateur radio.
DR Receiver USRP E312
Features:
- Battery operated
- Wide frequency range: 70 MHz – 6 GHz
- Up to 56 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth
- 2×2 MIMO transceiver
- RX, TX filter banks
- Xilinx Zynq 7020 SoC: 7 Series FPGA with ARM Cortex A9 866 MHz dual-core processor
- Up to 10 MS/s sample data transfer rate to ARM processor
- Synchronization with PPS time reference
- Integrated GPS receiver
- 9-axis inertial measurement unit
- Rich set of peripherials such as host USB and 1 Gigabit Ethernet
- 133 x 68.2 x 31.8 mm form factor
- OpenEmbedded build framework
- USRP Hardware Driver™ (UHD) open-source software API version 3.9.2 or later
- RF Network on Chip (RFNoC™) FPGA development framework
- GNU Radio support maintained by Ettus Research™ through GR-UHD, an interface to UHD distributed by GNU Radio
Overview
The battery operated USRP E312 offers a portable stand-alone software defined radio platform designed for field deployment. The flexible 2×2 MIMO AD9361 transceiver from Analog Devices provides up to 56 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth and spans frequencies from 70 MHz – 6 GHz to cover multiple bands of interest. RF filter banks in both the transmitter and receiver front-end enhances selectivity.
The baseband processor uses the Xilinx Zynq 7020 SoC to deliver FPGA accelerated computations combined with stand-alone operation enabled by a dual-core ARM CPU. The USRP E312 includes a rich set of peripherals such as an integrated GPS receiver for position awareness and time sychronization, as well as two host USB ports for extending storage, I/O, and communication options with off-the-shelf devices. Users can rapidly prototype and deploy designs for mobile and embedded applications with tight size, weight, and power requirements.
The USRP Embedded Series platform uses the OpenEmbedded framework to create custom Linux distributions tailored to application specific needs. The default operating system is pre-installed with the UHD software API and a variety of third party development tools such as GNU Radio. Support for the RFNoC FPGA development framework enables deterministic computations for real-time and wideband signal processing.
Price: $2,990.00 USD