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Before I took on my role at Digilent, I was an RF engineer at NI (the company that acquired Digilent some years ago). While at NI, I worked on some really complex, fascinating RF instruments. The hardware was awesome! But it was also expensive. Like, really <\/em>expensive<\/a>. Some instruments alone started at around $75,000 and a full test system might include several of them! (Not to mention the embedded controller to operate the system and the chassis to fit it all in, which is another $10,000+).<\/p>\n

The price is justified for the quality and performance, but it would be overkill for software-defined radio<\/a> (SDR). Also, what if you\u2019re not a certain trillion-dollar fruit company and looking for something more friendly to your wallet? Well, check this out!<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a cool company called Ettus Research<\/a> that brings together quality hardware and a robust open-source community. (Ettus is also an NI brand, so it\u2019s basically Digilent\u2019s SDR cousin.) Ettus introduced the world to the USRP platform (USRP = Universal Software Radio Peripheral). The USRP family of products is 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.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been hearing some interest in RF and SDR from quite a few of our customers, and so we wanted to bring you all something new!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m happy to announce that the Ettus USRP B205mini-i is now available in the Digilent store<\/a>! This flexible and compact platform is ideal for both hobbyist and OEM applications. It provides a wide frequency range from 70 MHz to 6 GHz and a user-programmable, industrial-grade Xilinx Spartan-6 XC6SLX150 FPGA. 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.<\/p>\n

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 USRP Hardware Driver™ (UHD) provides a C and Python API that enables users to efficiently develop applications then seamlessly transition designs between platforms as requirements expand.<\/p>\n

Available now for an introductory price of $746.00 ($100 off!)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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