Getting Started with Software-Defined Radio

Ettus USRP B205mini-i is a flexible and compact platform for software-defined radio applications. It is
designed by Ettus Research™ and provides a wide frequency range (70 MHz to 6 GHz) and a user-
programmable, industrial-grade Xilinx Spartan-6 XC6SLX150 FPGA. USRPs can both transmit and receive
RF signals.

The RF front end uses the Analog Devices AD9364 RFIC transceiver with 56 MHz of instantaneous
bandwidth. The board is bus-powered by a high-speed USB 3.0 connection for streaming data to the
host computer. The USRP B205mini-i also includes connectors for GPIO, JTAG, and synchronization with
a 10 MHz clock reference or PPS time reference input signal.

The hardware is conveniently accessible through the USRP Hardware Driver (UHD). UHD provides both a
C/C++ and Python API and offers cross-platform support for multiple industry standard development
environments and frameworks, including RFNoC, GNU Radio, LabVIEW and Matlab/Simulink.

The platform comes with comprehensive documentation and strong support materials including getting
started, videos, tutorials and driver manual.

USRP B205-mini-i Software Defined Radio Platform

USRP Hardware Driver (UHD) API

UHD is the free & open-source software driver and API for the Universal Software Radio Peripheral
(USRP™) SDR platform, created and sold by Ettus Research.
UHD supports all Ettus Research USRP™ hardware, including all motherboards and daughterboards, and
the combinations thereof. UHD is primarily developed on Linux, but we also test and support the
following operating systems.

• Linux (Fedora and Ubuntu)

• Mac OS X (Intel)
• Windows 10

UHD can be used to build stand-alone applications with USRP™ hardware, or with third-party
applications. Some common toolkits / frameworks are:

• GNU Radio
• NI LabVIEW
• MathWorks Simulink
• REDHAWK
• OpenBTS GSM
• Osmocom GSM
• Amarisoft LTE
• Software Radio Systems LTE

For technical documentation related to USRP™ hardware or UHD system design, check out the UHD and
USRP Manual. That is where you can find Installation Instructions, help on how to build UHD from
source on different platforms, development guidelines and reference documentation as well as device
usage guidance. The UHD source code is available on Ettus Research GitHub

Implement Software Defined Radio FM Receiver

The Getting Started Guide walk you through the design of an FM radio receiver using GNU Radio. You
will learn how to install the software driver and GNU radio in Linux OS, run a real-time Discrete Fourier
Transform (DFT) example, and create an FM radio receiver from scratch.
 Plot the spectrum and n-point DFT

Create an FM Radio Receiver in GNU Radio

 Display output signals in time-domain

Display output signals in frequency-domain