USRP

USRP, or Universal Software Radio Peripheral, is an open-source hardware platform developed by Ettus Research. It is designed for software-defined radio (SDR) applications, allowing users to create, test, and deploy wireless communication systems using general-purpose processors. The USRP platform consists of a motherboard and one or more daughterboards, which can be interchanged to support different frequency bands and modulation schemes. The motherboard includes a high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and digital-to-analog converter (DAC), as well as a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) for signal processing. The daughterboards contain the radio frequency (RF) front-end components, such as mixers, filters, and amplifiers, which enable the USRP to transmit and receive signals in various frequency ranges. The USRP is supported by the GNU Radio software suite, which provides a graphical user interface and a library of signal processing blocks for building SDR applications. The USRP platform is widely used in academia, research, and industry for prototyping, testing, and deploying wireless communication systems.