Ettus Research™ News & Announcements

  • November 16, 2011 -- MathWorks® has released version 2.1 of its support package for the USRP™ family of software radios, including a QPSK digital communications example and support for the SBX daughtercard.
  • October 3, 2011 -- New! The USRP B100 software defined radio joins the USRP family of products as the latest low cost USB 2.0 option. The introductory price is $650 and it is ready to ship. Technical details are available on our FAQ page. For ordering information, please visit our order page.
  • October 3, 2011 -- New! The USRP E110 software defined radio joins the USRP E1xx series, offering a more powerful solution by integrating a larger Xilinx® Spartan® 3A-DSP3400 FPGA. The introductory price is $1500 and it is ready to ship. For ordering information, please visit our order page.
  • September 23, 2011 -- MathWorks® has an updated support package for Release 2011b that enables users of MATLAB and Simulink to connect to the USRP™ family of software radios, including revision 4 of the N210 software radio. (More)
  • August 18, 2011 -- MathWorks® now offers UHD™ support enabling users to connect to the USRP™ family of devices from MATLAB and Simulink. The support package is available as a web download and works with latest version (release R2011a) of Communications System Toolbox™. The download package includes the UHD interface driver, demos, and documentation. (More)
  • June 15th, 2011 -- New! The LPBK-KIT Loop Back Kit is now available for purchase! The kit includes 2 SMA to SMA cables and 2 30dB SMA Attenuators enabling the direct connection between two USRP devices with the proper attenuation to avoid damaging the hardware. For ordering information, please visit our order page.
  • June 7th, 2011 -- New! The LP0965 Log Periodic PCB directional antenna is now available for purchase! It works with any daughterboard that operates within 850 MHz to 6.5 GHz frequency range. It is ideally suited for use with the SBX. For ordering information, please visit our order page.
  • May 10th, 2011 -- The RFX2200 has reached it's End Of Life (EOL). Please consider the SBX transceiver (400 MHz to 4.4 GHz) daughterboard as a replacement.
  • April 15th, 2011 -- New! The SBX transceiver (400 MHz to 4.4 GHz) daughterboard is now available for purchase. For ordering information, please visit our order page.

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The USRP™ Product Family

The Universal Software Radio Peripheral™ product family allows you to create a software defined radio using any computer with a USB 2.0 or Gigagbit ethernet port. Various plug-on daughterboards allow the USRP and USRP2 SDRs 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 product family works with GNU Radio, a free-software (open source) framework for the creation of software defined radios. GNU Radio works on Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, FreeBSD and NetBSD (see FAQ for more details).

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