Would you like to review the NI USRP B206mini-i?

OwainM 3 months ago

We are exploring the opportunity to offer you the USRP B206mini-i from NI to review.

What is the B206mini-i?

The NI USRP B206mini-i is a Software Defined Radio (SDR) / cognitive radio witha frequency range of between 70 Mhz to 6 GHz. It contains a user-programmable AMD Spartan-6 XC6SLX150 FPGA and the RF front end uses the Analog Devices AD9364 RFIC transceiver with 56 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth. The board is powered by USB 3.0, and includes connection for GPIO, JTAG, 10 MHz clock reference or PPS time reference input signal.

Details

https://www.ni.com/en/shop/hardware/software-defined-radios/model-usrp-b206mini-i

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/usrp-b206mini-i-specs/page/specs.html

https://learn.ni.com/learn/article/getting-started-with-usrp

DaNobody 3 months ago in reply to cstanton

Sorry, I'm sort of new here. What do you mean?
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JWx 3 months ago in reply to Mpcldwll

That's interesting - but would you be allowed to publish the results?
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Gough Lui 3 months ago in reply to cstanton

Synthetic Aperture Radar I presume ...

Otherwise Search and Rescue?
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cstanton 3 months ago in reply to DaNobody

You should check out our Project14 competitions
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DaNobody 3 months ago

This seems like a great product and I'd probably use it for Wi-Fi network signal mapping, however I'm not great in programming and this would become a hobby project for me. With AI I might be able to do a few things. I do have a few Wi-Fi 7 travel routers to test with.
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cstanton 3 months ago in reply to petedoss2000

petedoss2000 said:
SAR applications

SAR applications?
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petedoss2000 3 months ago

This is a perfect candidate for testing some weak signal detection along with some SAR applications I am looking to work on.
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veluv01 3 months ago

Awesome device for SDR stuff! Can't wait to try it out.

Got some seriously impressive specs...USB3 and AD9364, better than the AD9363 ( ADALM-PLUTO's RF TRx) in terms of receiver sensitivity and tunable bandwidth.

Since it uses the Spartan-6 FPGA...gotta fallback for ISE to get the custom PL blocks running on the FPGA. So if it's possible including the LabVIEW License along with the hardware would help a lot for the RoadTest.

The Ettus USRP hardware also got MATLAB support via the Communications Toolbox!

Here's the Hardware and API Docs : files.ettus.com/.../

Python API support makes it easier to automate the tests.
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Mpcldwll 3 months ago

This is right in my interest area. Work with EW systems during the day, so I would love to give one of these a try and see how they compare to the proprietary systems out there.
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JWx 3 months ago in reply to veluv01

yes - but local one is not ready yet...
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