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USRP¶
The Universal Software Radio Peripheral, or USRP (pronounced usurp) is designed to allow general purpose computers to function as high bandwidth software radios. In essence, it serves as a digital baseband and IF section of a radio communication system.
The basic design philosophy behind the USRP has been to do all of the waveform-specific processing, like modulation and demodulation, on the host CPU. All of the high-speed general purpose operations like digital up and down conversion, decimation and interpolation are done on the FPGA.
The true value of the USRP is in what it enables engineers and designers to create on a low budget and with a minimum of effort. A large community of developers and users have contributed to a substantial code base and provided many practical applications for the hardware and software. The powerful combination of flexible hardware, open-source software and a community of experienced users make it the ideal platform for your software radio development.
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