SDR – REDS blog

La reconfiguration partielle sur FPGA pour des applications dans les appareils de radio définie par logiciel (SDR)

June 30, 2020

L’une des spécialités de l’institut REDS est le développement de systèmes reconfigurables à haute performance, et l’une de ses activités principales est la radio définie par logiciel – Software Defined Radio (SDR). La faisabilité de la reconfiguration partielle sur des circuits FPGA contenus dans des appareils SDR a été démontré dans le cadre du projet SDR-Makerspace avec la tâche SDR’s FPGA Partial reconfiguration. Ce projet est mené par le REDS en collaboration avec la Libre Space Foundation et il est…

Exploring GNU Radio performance in 2020

June 29, 2020

Alberto Dassatti

HPC, SDR

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It was 2018 when I first wrote a post about bench-marking in GNU Radio. This post will expand on that, focusing on one technology I am experimenting with (eBPF) and a bit hack. This year I taught a class on High Performance Coding and one of the chapters introduces some bit hacks. Reading the excellent material from MIT 6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, I stumbled upon the modular addition bit hack implementation. Considering that what I did in the…

Exploring GNU Radio performance

March 7, 2018

Alberto Dassatti

SDR

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Next Friday, March 16th, our University is going to have its annual open day event (if you are close to Yverdon-les-Bains it is a great opportunity to see many interesting projects!). We decided to present an SDR demo: we get a live feed from a professional camera, we use a custom developed encoder, and then we transmit the signal to a receiver, then to a decoder, and finally we display it on a large screen. The whole chain is depicted…

Building a full SDR stack from source for LimeSDR

January 8, 2018

Xavier Ruppen

SDR

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Rationale Generally speaking, building from source offers one key advantage: it is the only way to test the latest features offered by the community. Moreover, if you intend to develop or fix bugs (or even help the community fix bugs), you will need to have a working and up-to-date software environment. All in all, compiling LimeSDR’s software stack is fairly straight forward. It is barely a matter of getting the right cmake options. While we want to compile as many…

Cooling the LimeSDR (with IR pictures)

October 30, 2017

Xavier Ruppen

SDR

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One thing that struck us as well as the community is the overall heat that is cumulating on the LimeSDR. Having worked with the Ettus B210, we were surprised of the 60°C shown in LimeSuite under no significant load. Some were concerned by the premature degradation of the board, but heat may also impact RF performances (chapter 4.4). As such, we decided to take action against what we considered could be a problem. This SDR contains three main chips: a Cypress FX3 CPU,…