User Manual

bladeRF
USB 3.0 Software Defined Radio
[e-mail] 720 East Ave Suite 201
https://www.nuand.com Rochester, NY 14607
Features
Frequency range of 300 MHz to 3.8 GHz
- Extendable down to HF/VHF bands with the
XB-200 Transverter Module
Up to 28 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth
- Software-selectable filter options from
1.5 MHz to 28 MHz
Independent RX and TX signal paths
- Half or full duplex operation
- Per-module frequency, sample rate, bandwidth,
and gain settings
- Direct access to analog ADC/DAC pins
Arbitrary sample rates up to 40 MSPS
- 12-bit IQ samples
Factory-calibrated 1 PPM VCTCXO
- Calibrated within 1 Hz of 38.4 MHz reference
- Taming supported via 1.8 V GPSDO reference
(1 PPS or 10 MHz)
USB 3.0 Support
- Cypress FX3 SuperSpeed peripheral controller
with integrated ARM926EJ-S
- Fully bus-powered over USB 3.0
- External power option via 5V DC barrel jack
- Backwards compatible with USB 2.0
(with sample rate limitations)
Altera Cyclone IV FPGA
- 40 kLE or 115 kLE options available for custom
signal processing and hardware accelerators
Fully Customizable
- Expansion port with 32 I/O pins
- JTAG connectors
- SMB connector for MIMO configurations
- Triggered multi-device sampling synchronization
Supported by popular third-party software
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- GNU Radio via gr-osmosdr
- Pothos via SoapySDR
- SDRangel
- SDR Console
- SDR# via sdrsharp-bladeRF
- MathWorks MATLAB
®
& Simulink
®
via
libbladeRF bindings
Applications
- Custom modem and waveform development
- Wireless video (e.g., ATSC, DVB-T, DVB-S)
- GPS reception and simulation
- Whitespace exploration
- ADSB reception and simulation
The bladeRF is an affordable USB 3.0 Software Defined
Radio (SDR) designed to allow students and RF
enthusiasts to explore wireless communication, and to
provide professionals with a versatile COTS waveform
development platform.
Support is available for Linux, OSX, and Windows.
The bladeRF libraries, utilities, firmware, and platform HDL
are released under open source licenses, and schematics
are available online. The FPGA and USB 3.0 peripheral
controller are programmable with vendor-supplied tools
and SDKs that are available online, free of charge.
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Third-party software is copyrighted by the respective owners and/or contributors.