Elektor Sdr Software

BladeRF - low-cost, professional USB 3.0 Software Defined Radio bladeRF is a Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform designed to enable a community of hobbyists, and professionals to explore and experiment with the multidisciplinary facets of RF communication. By providing source code, thorough documentation, easy to grasp tutorials, and a place for open discussion modern radio systems will be demystified by covering everything from the RF, analog, and digital hardware design to the firmware running on the ARM MCU and FPGA to Linux kernel device drivers. USB 3.0 interfaced through a Cypress FX3 ARM9 microcontroller. An Altera Cyclone IV FPGA provides the interface between the FX3 and RF transceiver. This FPGA has single-cycle access embedded memory, hard 18x18 multipliers for dedicated DSP and many general logic elements ready to be programmed.Fully bus-powered USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Software Defined Radio300MHz - 3.8GHz RF frequency rangeIndependent RX/TX 12-bit 40MSPS quadrature samplingOn-board 200MHz ARM9 with 512KB embedded SRAM (JTAG port available)On-board 15KLE or 115KLE Altera Cyclone 4 E FPGA (JTAG port available). Here is an highly configurable RF, well suited for reasonable perf/cost ratio SDR projects, coming in a 9x9 mm 120 pins aQFN. It covers 300 to 3800 MHz, with I/Q channels programmable from 1.5 to 28 MHz.

12 bits ADC and DAC are integrated. But remember to decimate in order to gain few bits, if you want to have quite high dynamic.12 bits is just enough in many cases. The 2.4 Hz resolution Frac-N synthesizer presents a phase noise roughly around -100 dBc at 800 MHz and -93 dBc in the 2 GHz region. Not bad for a low cost wide band device.

Edition 4/2016 July & August 2016 www.elektormagazine.com. Elektor SDR d. Elektor Uno R4 Four pins make all.

Noise figure and IP3 are acceptable. Output power is annouced at 6 dBm CW in the datasheet. Datasheet is there. Here is an interesting low cost SDR 'thing' (Thank you Akash!) ASRP3 is based on a classical I/Q direct conversion architecture using ADL5380 I/Q demod chip from Analog Device, as well as their famous AD9262 10 MHz 16 bits sigma delta ADC. The AD9262 presents 87 dB dynamic over the 10 MHz range, due to the 16 bits.Which is good for the price!

Indeed, final dynamic will not be 87 dBs due to input stages, but we should obtain pretty good results from this device anyway.And you can still implement clever decimation to increase dynamic on a reduced bandwidth. This being said, this receiver will tune its 10 MHz SDR window from 400 to 4400 MHz, which opens a bunch of possibilities. Here we are, the new version is coming, and maybe already available. Same principle than original FunCube Dongle (A 'TV tuner like' radio in front of a low cost 16 bit soundcard ->USB chipset). But this time, sampling rate is 192 KSamp/s, and thus SDR coverage is close to 2 x 96 KHz which means 192 KHz.

And probably more important for potential users: RF coverage starts from 150 KHz to 240 MHz as well as 420 to 1900 MHz, bringing Shortwave capability in top of most used V-UHF spectrum capability. AFEDRI SDR is a direct sampling receiver, based on the AFEDRI8201 IC from Texas Instrument. It covers 0.1 to 30 MHz in normal mode, and can be extended to 150 MHz with some hardwave filtering modifications and some obvious performance compromises. The native oversampling rate is 76.8 MHz @ 12 bits. The 192 KSamp/s I/Q output is a 16 bit audio equivalent on USB, compatible with most of the SDR software. A specific control software is used in parallel to the SDR software in order to control the radio.

Specification of the AFEDRI8201 can be found here: Bloc diagram will be found here: And full schematics here. The SDR-ONE is a low cost, high performance transmit / receive module for experimentation and integration into products.

The module can be used stand alone or plugged into other products. It offers very high performance with the use of a 14 bit ADC/DACs. The SDR-ONE RX/TX module offers 48,96 and 192 KHz receive bandwidths over I2S, optical audio (S/PDIF) and IQ analog out. In addition, up to 40 KHz of BW can be transmitted at a 48 Khz sample rate. The SDR-ONE sets the RX sample rate of the sound-card when using the S/PDIF or I2S outputs. In TX, I/Q signal is received via the IQ analog input or the I2S master port.

The FPGA and flash memory can be reprogrammed over the built in USB port in seconds without the need of a special programming cable. The FPGA UCF file and code examples are supplied for those willing to write their own code. Baudline is a time-frequency browser designed for scientific visualization of the spectral domain. Signal analysis is performed by Fourier, correlation, and raster transforms that create colorful spectrograms with vibrant detail.

Conduct test and measurement experiments with the built in function generator, or play back audio files with a multitude of effects and filters. The baudline signal analyzer combines fast digital signal processing, versatile high speed displays, and continuous capture tools for hunting down and studying elusive signal characteristics. Source code is available. With a simple digital TV USB capture card, you can build your own software defined radio or spectrum analyzer. While it may not be as cool as [Jeri Ellsworth]'s SDR, it's still very useful and only requires $20 in hardware. However, be carefull, you have what you get for 20 $.I/Q interface is 8 bits which means around 48 dB maximum dynamics. This is OK for a single signal, isolated from others by physical filtering (TV signal indeed!), but not enough for narrowband multisignal handling (14 to 16 bits being a minimum).

A solution is to oversample your baseband, and then decimate to increase the effective number of bits. For example, if you oversample by 128 around 4 Msamp/s, you will obtain an effective sampling rate of around 31 Ksamp/s, thus a combined I/Q bandwidth of 31 KHz after digital filtering, with an effective number of bits of 8+3,5=11,5 bits (70 dB dynamic). Analyze of the used Realtek chipset shows analog I/Q signal if fed to digital A/D-USB chip via 4 capacitors (I/Q differential interface). It is then possible, through HW modifications, to interpose 2 differental analog baseband filters in order to improve the system in addition to oversampling. In conclusion, an interesting solution, close to the 'funcube dongle' concept, already presented here.

But the funcube has more dynamic, by design. SDR MK1.5 Radio 'Andrus' is a shortwave Receiver covering 5KHz to 30 MHz with Network Interface. It is based on the National Semi LM97593 Dual ADC / Digital Tuner / AGC chip. PM-SDR offers an excellent coverage/performance/cost compromise, for various 0.1 to 55 MHz SDR receive applications. It is a sum of 'little tricks' that leads to this point of optimisation. In addition, it is built in a small packaging.

Based on I/Q principle, it delivers an analog I/Q interface. Thus final performance is, as usual, partially dependant on your A/D's quality and dynamics (noise floor as well as linearity.Etc). If you use a sound card for such a purpose, be carefull with 'ugly' chipsets and/or designs.

Potentially prefer an external high end one, like EMU0204. See RFHam site: PM-SDR is compatible with a large variety of SDR software. You can buy PMSDR here.

Winrad.org New Winrad Release v1.6.1 (22 Feb. 2010) see below for details Welcome to Winrad.org by Jeffrey Pawlan, WA6KBL Winrad is a free amateur radio program conceived by Jeffrey Pawlan, WA6KBL, and written by Alberto, I2PHD, that implements many Software Defined Radio (SDR) functions which are needed for weaksignal reception including EME, troposcatter, cloudscatter, and very long distance microwave terrestrial contacts. It also works well for general HF reception. Directx Fbx Converter. Winrad will accept input from any Windows soundcard, from Virtual Audio Cable, or direct digital input from several SDR receivers which have appropriate drivers written for Winrad in the form of a DLL plus support files. These files must be installed in the Winrad progam directory in order to run.

You must do all installation and run Winrad with Administrator privileges. Alberto, I2PHD wrote the code from its beginning until retiring from it in Oct, 2008. Jim Austin and Charles Buse helped from 2008 - 2010.

We do not have any programmers at this time. If you are interested in helping, note that you will need to use the Borland/Codegear/Embarcadero IDE version 2007. Please contact Jeffrey Pawlan. If you start from the original source code and make a new program that is not part of this project, please do not call it Winrad as this name is my own creation and the program Winrad will remain on this website which I own.

You may contact me, Jeffrey Pawlan (WA6KBL) at (jpawlan at yahoo dot com). All recent versions of Winrad run under Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 1.6.1 has been tested on Windows 7 (32 and also 64 bit) with a Perseus. An earlier version v1.23 is also provided because it will still run under Windows 98SE. There are problems with Windows 10.

Discussion Group The yahoo discussion group for Winrad has been inactive for a long time so it will be discontinued. New changes and fixed in the new version 1.6.1 OmniRig working very well now The last radio used is saved so when you start Winrad again your radio will be automatically selected. The last state of the I/Q mode is stored so if you use I/Q swapped, Winrad will remember that and come up with this selected. The issue of the Internationalization: use of '.' Or ',' decimal fraction separators depending on country has been fixed. New: you may adjust the parameters of the AGC buttons by right-clicking on them. A pop-up window will appear and you can change the values.

Slow and Fast AGC are separate except for one common parameter. Note that you can 'break' Winrad by moving the values too far.

You must have the Threshold slider up most of the way or perhaps all of the way to really hear the effects of the AGC. Keyboard Shortcuts Keyboard Command Function C change LO so that received frequency is at center H shows GUI for external hardware (if it has one) U change unit (cycles through Hz, kHz, MHz) Z same as pressing the ZAP button ctrl A switch to AM mode ctrl B same as pressing Noise Blanker button ctrl C switch to CW mode ctrl D switch to DRM mode ctrl E switch to ECSS mode ctrl F switch to FM mode ctrl L switch to LSB mode ctrl O enter LO frequency value from keyboard ctrl P same as pressing CW Peak button ctrl R same as pressing N. Button ctrl T enter tune frequency value from keyboard ctrl U switch to USB mode Arrow Up change tune frequency by 0.1 kHz Arrow Down change tune frequency by -0.1 kHz Arrow Right change LO frequency by 10 kHz Arrow Left change LO frequency by -10 kHz Sh. Arrow Up change tune frequency by 1.0 kHz Sh.

Arrow Down change tune frequency by -1.0 kHz Sh. Arrow Right change LO frequency by 100 kHz Sh. Arrow Left change LO frequency by -100 kHz Page Up increase LO frequency by size of the spectrum window Page Down decrease LO frequency by size of the spectrum window Downloads & Links Important!

Before installing the new version, please read this. If you want to have the original version 1.32 or 1.33 on the same computer, you may, but you must do the following step: Winrad v1.32 should be renamed to winrad132.exe so that it will not be overwritten when you install the new version. You can create a separate desktop shortcut for that. You must uninstall the earlier version (1.4.2 to 1.5.0) before you install 1.6.1. This is done in the Windows Control Panel using Add / Remove Programs. • New version Feb. 22, 2010: • • this old version is made to run only on Win98: • • Download the support files for the receivers.

• Download the support files for the from the Perseus home page. The extio.DLL is written correctly and reports whether it is really plugged in and powered on or not. • Get the New version (V0.2) of the Winrad DLL for the Softrock V9.0 written by PE0FKO: • Get the designed and made by Martin Pernter, IW3AUT called PM-SDR. His webpage includes a DLL to use his receiver with Winrad. • Download the published in the May 2007 issue of Elektor. But the extio DLL is not written correctly and does not report if the radio is unplugged.

The Author has not replied so far. • Download the for writing a DLL to work with Winrad (Oct.