¶ Software Defined Radios
Software defined radios (SDRs) are the main experimentation tool for radio access network (RAN) protocols and 6GSpaceLab actively utilizes, especially the Universal Software Radio Peripherals (USRPs) by NI.
¶ USRP Products
¶ B205mini-i
- Interface: USB 3.0
- Programmable Logic: Xilinx Spartan 6 LX150 Industrial-Grade FPGA
- RF: Single input single output (SISO); frange = 70 MHz - 6 GHz; BWmax = 56 MHz
- Baseband: 61.44 MS/s maximum I/Q sample rate; 12-bit ADC and DAC
- With the size of a business card and weight of 24 g, it is suitable for placement on unmanned aircraft systems (UASs)
¶ B210
- Interface: USB 3.0
- Programmable Logic: Xilinx Spartan 6 XC6SLX150 FPGA
- RF: 2 TX and 2 RX, half or full duplex; frange = 70 MHz - 6 GHz; BWmaxSISO = 56 MHz, BWmax2x2 = 30.72 MHz (difficult to do MIMO above 10 MHz BW)
- Baseband: 61.44 MS/s maximum I/Q sample rate; 12-bit ADC and DAC
¶ X310 (2944R)
- Interface: 2 SFP+ (Small Form-Factor Pluggable Enhanced) ports for 1/10 Gb Ethernet, 4 lane PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express)
- Programmable Logic: Xilinx Kintex 7 XC7K410T FPGA, 1 GB DDR3 memory
- RF: UBX-160 daughterboard; 2 TX and 2 RX, full duplex; frange = 10 MHz - 6 GHz; BWmax = 160 MHz
- Baseband: 200 MS/s maximum I/Q sample rate; 14-bit ADC, 16-bit DAC
¶ N310
- Interface: 2 SFP+ ports for 1/10 Gb Ethernet
- Processing System: Dual Core ARM Cortex-A9 (800 MHz) CPU, 1 GB DDR3 memory
- Programmable Logic: Xilinx System-on-Chip (SoC) Zynq 7000 XC7Z100 FPGA, 2 GB DDR3 memory
- RF: 4 TX and 4 RX (2 independently tuned and 2 LO sharing pairs); frange = 10 MHz - 6 GHz; BWmax = 100 MHz
- Baseband: 122.88, 125 and 153.6 MS/s I/Q sample rates; 16-bit ADC, 14-bit DAC
¶ 2974
- Interface: 2 SFP+ ports for 1/10 Gb Ethernet
- Processing System: Quad Core Intel i7-6822EQ (2 GHz) CPU, 8 GB DDR4 memory
- Programmable Logic: Xilinx Kintex 7 XC7K410T FPGA, 1 GB DDR3 memory
- RF: 2 TX and 2 RX, full duplex; frange = 10 MHz - 6 GHz; BWmax = 160 MHz
- Baseband: 200 MS/s maximum I/Q sample rate; 14-bit ADC, 16-bit DAC
¶ Other SDRs
¶ Analog Devices ADALM-PLUTO
- Interface: USB 2.0
- Processing System: ARM Cortex-A9 (667 MHz) CPU
- Programmable Logic: Xilinx SoC Zynq 7000 XC7Z010 FPGA, 512 MB DDR3 memory
- RF: SISO; frange = 325 MHz - 3.8 GHz; BWmax = 20 MHz
- Baseband: 61.44 MS/s maximum I/Q sample rate; 12-bit ADC and DAC
¶ GomSpace NanoCom SDR
- Interface: USB 2.0
- Processing System: Dual Core ARM Cortex-A9 (800 MHz) CPU
- Programmable Logic: Xilinx SoC Zynq 7000 XC7Z030 FPGA, 1 GB DDR3 memory
- RF: 2 TX and 2 RX; frange = 70 MHz - 6 GHz; BWmax = 56 MHz