RF Measurements of the RFX 900 and RFX 2400 Daughter Boards with the USRP N210 Driven by the GNU Radio Software

Author

Zitouni, Rafik ; Ataman, Stefan ; George, Libin

Author_Institution

LACSC Lab., ECE Paris, Paris, France

fYear

2013

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

490

Lastpage

494

Abstract

In this paper, we report a series of RF (Radio Frequency) measurements performed on a USRP and a GNU Radio Software Defined Radio (SDR). The RFX 900 and RFX 2400 Daughter Boards are connected to an USRP N210 platform and driven by the GNU Radio open source software. We focused on two main aspects: the output RF bandwidth and the power linearity versus the DAC value for each daughter board. The measured bandwidths of the daughter boards are found smaller than advertised while the linearity of the output power with the expected results is in good agreement only for low DAC values.

Keywords

public domain software; software radio; GNU Radio open source software; GNU radio software defined radio; RF measurements; RFX 2400 daughter boards; RFX 900; SDR; USRP N210; radio frequency measurements; Bandwidth; Binary phase shift keying; Frequency measurement; Oscilloscopes; Power generation; Power measurement; Software; Frequency bandwidth; GNU Radio; Power linearity; Software Defined Radio; USRP; radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery (CyberC), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CyberC.2013.90

Filename

6685731