USRP B200: Exploring the Wireless World

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Introducing the new USRP B200/B210:
* USB 3.0, bus powered
* Frequency coverage: 70 MHz - 6 GHz (RX & TX)
* Sampling bandwidth: 56 MHz (RX & TX)
* B200: 1 channel of RX & TX
* B210: 2 channels of RX & TX (2x2 MIMO)
* Clock reference/1 PPS in & out
* Optional: DC input power for high-current operational mode (high BW & 2x2 MIMO)
* Optional: GPSDO module

"Exploring the Wireless World with the USRP B200" with Balint Seeber, Applications Engineer & SDR Evangelist at Ettus Research.

Read the full interview covering this Bay Area Adventure: http://www.ettus.com/blog/2013/09/int...

Google Map of the Adventure: http://goo.gl/maps/PBrdm

TOC:

00:08 Intro
00:30 Hardware
01:15 Broadcast FM & RDS
02:02 APRS
02:26 AIS
03:25 Scanning (400 & 900 MHz)
05:02 Mode S
06:27 ACARS
06:56 RADAR
08:50 802.11a/g/p
09:41 Outro
10:27 Bloopers

The 802.11a/g/p decoder "gr-ieee802-11" was written by Bastian Bloessl as part of his PhD research.
Reference: Bastian Bloessl, Michele Segata, Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler, "An IEEE 802.11a/g/p OFDM Receiver for GNU Radio," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2013, 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop of Software Radio Implementation Forum (SRIF 2013), Hong Kong, China, August 2013, pp. 9-16.
Website: http://www.ccs-labs.org/software/gr-i...