Software Defined Radio
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.
Exterior
Two Transceiver RF Ports
27.7 x 21.8 x 3.9 cm / 1.7 kg
Interior
Install up to two RF Daughterboard
DC – 6GHz / 160MHz Instantaneous BW
NI Ettus USRP X-Series
High-performance, scalable Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform for designing and deploying next generation wireless communications systems. The hardware combines two extended-bandwidth daughterboard slots covering DC – 6 GHz with up to 160 MHz Instantaneous BW, multiple high-speed interface options (PCIe, dual 10 GigE, dual 1 GigE), and a large user-programmable Kintex-7 FPGA in a convenient desktop or rack-mountable half-wide 1U form factor.
| Model | FPGA | DSP Slices | SF Specifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| USRP X300 | KINTEX7-325T | 840 | DC – 6GHz 160MHz Instantaneous BW |
| USRP X310 | KINTEX7-410T | 1540 | DC – 6GHz 160MHz Instantaneous BW |
Applications
- Advanced Wireless Prototyping
- Massive MIMO RF Testbeds
- RF Channel Emulator
- Passive RADAR
- Signal Intelligence
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DARPA Colosseum
DARPA built the ‘World’s Most Powerful Emulator of Radio Signal Traffic’ around National Instruments (NI) Ettus Hardware and Software.
Colosseum is a wireless research environment focused on advancing the advent of autonomous, intelligent, and—most importantly, collaborative—radio technology.
Colossem System Characteristics
- 256 x 256 RF Channel Emulator
- 128 Standard Radio Nodes
- Configured as 2 x 2 MIMO
- 100MHz RF Channel Emulation
- Testbed supports up to 25.6GHz
- DC – 6GHz Frequency Range
- Tunable from 10MHz (broadcast FM) to 6GHz (as in WiFi)
- 52 Terabytes of data processed/sec which is more info contained in the entire print collection of the Library of Congress
DARPA built the ‘World’s Most Powerful Emulator of Radio Signal Traffic’ around National Instruments (NI) Ettus Hardware and Software.
Colosseum is a wireless research environment focused on advancing the advent of autonomous, intelligent, and—most importantly, collaborative—radio technology.
Colosseum NI Ettus Hardware
- USRP X310 (qty 128)
- ea USRP X310 has a Xilinix Kentex-7 410T FPGA to calculate and simulate in real-time more than 65,000 channel interactions across 256 wireless devices
- ATCA-3671 (qty 16)
- ea ATCA-3671 have four Xilinix Virtex-7 690T FPGAs in a cross-link config resulting in a aggregate data bandwidth of 160Gbytes/sec
| Type | Config | RF Nodes | Supports | Freq Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mini-Colosseum | 16 x 16 | 8 Nodes 2 x 2 MIMO | 1.6 GHz | DC – 6GHz |
| Colosseum | 64 x 64 | 32 Nodes 2 x 2 MIMO | 6.4 GHz | DC – 6GHz |
| Max-Colosseum | 256 x 256 | 128 Nodes 2 x 2 MIMO | 25.6 GHz | DC – 6GHz |