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  • Author Author: rscasny
  • Date Created: 14 Feb 2021 1:39 AM Date Created
  • Last Updated Last Updated: 11 Oct 2021 3:00 PM
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Poll: Are You Interested in Roadtesting a USB Software-Defined Radio Platform?

The USRP B205mini-i is a flexible and compact platform. It provides a wide frequency range (70 MHz to 6 GHz) and a user-programmable, industrial-grade Xilinx Spartan-6 XC6SLX150 FPGA.

6002-410-021 Development Board, XC6SLX150, Spartan-6 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. 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 that supports all USRP products and enables users to efficiently develop applications then seamlessly transition designs between platforms as requirements expand. UHD also offers cross-platform support for multiple industry standard development environments and frameworks, including RFNoC, LabVIEW, and Matlab/Simulink. To ensure you have no restrictions on how you use UHD, it is available on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. Do you prefer graphical programming? Try out GNU Radio, a free and open-source software development framework offering a graphical design approach.

 

RF Specifications

  • Channels: 1 TX, 1 RX
  • Frequency range: 70 MHz to 6 GHz
  • Instantaneous Bandwidth: Up to 56 MHz
  • IIP3 (at typical NF): -20 dBm
  • Power Output: >10 dBm
  • Receive Noise Figure: <8 dB

 

Conversion Performance and Clocks

  • ADC Sample Rate (Max.): 61.44 MS/s
  • ADC Resolution: 12 bits
  • DAC Sample Rate (Max.): 61.44 MS/s
  • DAC Resolution: 12 bits
  • Host Sample Rate (16b): 61.44 MS/s
  • Frequency Accuracy: +/-2.0 ppm

 

Power

  • USB Power: 5V

 

Environment

  • Operating Temp. Range: 0 - 45 °C
  • USRP Hardware Driver 3.9.2 (or later)
  • GNU Radio

 

Synchronization

  • 10 MHz clock reference
  • PPS time reference

 

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  • Gough Lui
    Gough Lui over 4 years ago +7
    That looks like a great device to test ... as a radio amateur myself, I've been using the Winradio Excalibur G31DDC (2MHz bandwidth, 0-50MHz frequency range) since 2010 - the best we could do at the time…
  • colporteur
    colporteur over 4 years ago in reply to colporteur +6
    On initial discovery I found this RoadTest poll of interest. The picture of the product is deceiving. According to manufactures docs, The USRP B205mini-i delivers a 1×1 SDR/cognitive radio in the size…
  • Gough Lui
    Gough Lui over 4 years ago in reply to Fred27 +4
    Well, how else am I going to DX? Take photos by day, take IQ recordings by night ... Speaking of which, this is what happened ... https://goughlui.com/2017/11/05/an-incomplete-repair-bladerf-x40-software…
  • airlomba
    airlomba over 4 years ago

    As a radioamateur it would be nice to review this piece of Art, adding some more experience to  what I use to do with other SDRs such as ADALM-Pluto or RTL-SDR.

    As a PhD student in telecomunications, it would be even better to add this hardware in my work research and try out its capabilities in a self contained RF deep analisys...

    73 de CT7AFR.

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  • neuromodulator
    neuromodulator over 4 years ago in reply to gpolder

    And that amount of power might be enough for what you are doing... but it all boils down to the application of course...

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  • colporteur
    colporteur over 4 years ago in reply to neuromodulator

    Those annoying RF reflections contributing to excessive VSWR because of mismatched impedance can smoke a front end on transmit real fast. The transmit components is not passive like receive. There is a fair bit more equipment and knowledge needed to explore that side of radio.

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  • mlange
    mlange over 4 years ago

    100%! I was checking this product out just the other week. It's an amazing piece of kit!

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  • ewagnerjr2000
    ewagnerjr2000 over 4 years ago

    Love the sampling rate and the accuracy.  Any ideas yet on the price?  I have been using SDRs for years, and would prefer to see more SDR in radios (amateur radios).

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  • hugohu
    hugohu over 4 years ago in reply to jkutzsch

    The value is ovr 600 USD(last time I checked, if my memory hasnt failed me), so most likely.

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  • jkutzsch
    jkutzsch over 4 years ago

    rscasny  Curious, is this one of those items that will require additional tax forms for US participants?  Sounds very interesting and I would assume wouldn't be too high cost compared to other awesome Road Test radio devices but just wanted to have an idea.

     

    Thank you!

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  • gpolder
    gpolder over 4 years ago in reply to Gough Lui

    Gough Lui  wrote:

     

    Software support has always been a sore point for many SDRs.  .............

    This one is supported by https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/wiki  through UHD, so I expect it can interface to a lot of software applications.

     

    I personally would be interested in GNURadio and https://www.openwebrx.de/.

     

    Other things to explore:

    • HF up converter
    • filtering and amplification to build a ham radio transceiver on 4M, 2M, 70cm, 23cm.
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  • gpolder
    gpolder over 4 years ago in reply to neuromodulator

    power output is 10dBm, so 1mW.

    You need some form of amplification in order to use it as transmitter on e.g. the ham radio bands.

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  • colporteur
    colporteur over 4 years ago in reply to baldengineer

    If I come up with a reason to explore GNURadio software in the future I'm hoping to use the 3.9 version. I have read the release notes for product. It seems prudent to be at that release. Unfortunately you may not have as many souls of experience to rely on to help.  I'm running Linux as my primary operating system so that install appears to have more fish ladders to get over the installation water falls, than the blue screen of death operating system.

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