Welcome to Ettus Research

News & Announcements

  • February 5th, 2010 -- Ettus Research LLC has been acquired by National Instruments Corporation. For more information about this exciting development, please see the announcement.
  • January 26th, 2010 -- The USRP2 is back in stock and shipping now. The XCVR2450 and WBX are out of stock.
  • January 25th, 2010 -- We are now shipping international orders with plug adapters for the power supplies. Nearly all countries are covered by one of the included adapters. If your country is not, please let us know. If your order is shipping to North America, but you still need the power supply with the adapters, just put a note to that effect in the comments field on the ordering page.
  • January 13th, 2010 -- The WBX is now on sale! It is a full duplex-capable transceiver which covers 50 MHz to 2.2 GHz for $450. This includes an LNA/filter board and MCX to SMA bulkhead adapter cable.
  • December 19th, 2009 -- If you received your USRP2 recently and are having trouble with the SD card, please click here.
  • July 3rd, 2009 -- You can now follow us on Twitter. @MattEttus is the username.
  • May 25th, 2009 -- The USRP2 is now for sale! Please see the USRP sales page for more details.

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The USRP Product Family

The Universal Software Radio Peripheral product family allows you to create a software radio using any computer with a USB2 or Gigagbit ethernet port. Various plug-on daughterboards allow the USRP and USRP2 to be used on different radio frequency bands. Daughterboards are available from DC to 5.9 GHz at this time. The entire design of the USRP family is open source.

The USRP and USRP2 work with GNU Radio, a free-software (open source) framework for the creation of software defined radios. GNU Radio works on all of the following operating systems:

  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Max OS X, PPC and Intel processors
  • FreeBSD and NetBSD

The USRP2 is currently only supported under Linux.

For more information on the USRP product family, please see the USRP family brochure and the USRP sales page for more details.