Ettus Research Products and Roadmap 2011

IntroductionThe USRP FamilyExisting Products

New Products

Ettus Research Products and Roadmap 2011

Matt Ettus<[email protected]>

Ettus Research

September, 2011

Matt Ettus <[email protected]> Ettus Research Products and Roadmap 2011


New Products

Outline

1 Introduction

2 The USRP Family

3 Existing Products

4 New Products



New Products

Outline

1 Introduction

2 The USRP Family

3 Existing Products

4 New Products



New Products

Introduction

Ettus Research founded in 2004

Acquired by National Instruments in Feb 2010

Now operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary

Based in Mountain View, CA

Currently 10 employees


Business Model

Sell low-cost, easy to use software radio kits

Build a community of users

Keep a very low overhead

Fit into the niche between �consumer-level� and �testequipment level� price and performance

Engineering Model

Use mid-sized, low-cost FPGAs

Allow user to reprogram, build o� of our open-source IP

Leverage from, and give back to the Open Source community

Rapid design turnaround, keep up with the latest chips andcapabilities

Use highly-integrated parts where possible

Universal drivers allow use with any software stack


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Outline

1 Introduction

2 The USRP Family

3 Existing Products

4 New Products



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Goals

Very low cost

Interchangeable RF sections

Wide bandwidth

Extreme �exibility

MIMO-capability

Create a community of user-developers

Developed in parallel with GNU Radio

Don't constrain what the user does



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Architecture

USRP Motherboard interfaces computer to analog

Bus or network interface to hostFPGADual high-speed ADCs and DACs for Quadrature signalsLow speed ADCs and DACs for RSSI, gain ctrl, etc.Clock generationGPIOs, I2C, SPI

Interchangeable daughterboards convert analog baseband toRF

Quadrature Up/DownconvertersVCO/PLL for LOLNA, PA, all �ltering



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Universal Hardware Driver (UHD)



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UHD

Works on Linux, Mac, Windows

Using CMAKE for cross-platform build system

Windows build with Visual Studio, Cygwin, MinGW

LabVIEW, Simulink, GNU Radio, OpenBTS, and OSSIE allsupport UHD now

Supports all of our hardware transparently

Dual-license model (GPL + Other)

Handles arbitrary MIMO con�gurations



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FPGA Design

Digital up- and downconverters

CORDIC algorithm

Decimation and Interpolation

CIC and halfband �lters

Data formatting, packetizing, and bus interfacing

Daughterboard Control

Precise timing

Room for user expansion



New Products

Outline

1 Introduction

2 The USRP Family

3 Existing Products

4 New Products



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USRP1

Introduced in 2005

USB 2.0 Interface

8 MHz of RF bandwidth at 16 bits per sample

Altera Cyclone I FPGA

64 MS/s 12-bit ADCs, 128 MS/s 14-bit DACs

2x2 MIMO capable

$700



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USRP1



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USRP2, N200-series

Gigabit Ethernet interface

25 MHz of RF bandwidth at 16 bit samples

Xilinx Spartan 3-2000 FPGA (USRP2)

Xilinx Spartan 3A DSP 1800A (N200) or 3400A (N210)


External 10 MHz reference and PPS input

MIMO Expansion

Support for in-box GPSDO

$1400-$1700



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USRP N210



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USRP E100-series

Embedded computer built-in

OMAP3530

720 MHz ARM Cortex A8 with �oating point SIMD extensions520 MHz TI C64x �xed-point DSP

Spartan 3A DSP (-1800 on E100, -3400 on E110)

High-speed bus between FPGA and OMAP

Audio In/Out, HDMI video

10/100 Ethernet

USB Host, USB On The Go, USB console



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USRP E100



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USRP Embedded Highlights

Runs REAL Linux

No need to choose between GPP, DSP, or FPGA processing

Can develop directly on E100/E110

Develop on desktop with USRP1/2/N210, deploy (samecode!) on Embedded

Uses UHD

Low power, no laptop

Low latency with direct bus access



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Embedded Usage Model

Network testbeds

Wireless sensor nodes

Public safety nodes

Picocells

Low-cost SIGINT boxes



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Daughterboards

BasicRX and BasicTX � Transformer-coupled breakout board

LFRX and LFTX � Dual DC-30 MHz

TVRX2 � Dual 50 MHz to 860 MHz receive-only

DBSRX2 � 800 MHz to 2.4 GHz receive-only

RFX (all full duplex, 50-100 mW output power)

RFX900 � 800-1000 MHzRFX1200 � 1100-1400 MHzRFX1800 � 1500-2100 MHzRFX2400 � 2300-2900 MHz

XCVR2450 � 2.4-2.5 GHz, 4.9-5.9 GHz

WBX � 50 MHz to 2.2 GHz, Full duplex

SBX � 400 MHz to 4.4 GHz, Full duplex



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Outline

1 Introduction

2 The USRP Family

3 Existing Products

4 New Products



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E1x0 revision

E110 Large FPGA version available

Spartan 3A-DSP 3400 like N210

Support for internal GPSDO option



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B100

Modernized version of USRP1

Xilinx Spartan 3A-1400 FPGA

Supports a common architecture with N2x0 and E1x0 seriesSupports all UHD capabilities

USB 2.0 Interface

8 MHz of RF bandwidth at 16 bits per sample


Flexible Clocking like E1x0

10 MHz and 1 PPS inputs

Onboard TCXO

September release



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CBX

Full duplex RF transceiver

2 GHz to 6 GHz RF coverage

50 to 100mW output power

Similar architecture to WBX and SBX

Coming end of 2011



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WCDMA GDB

Grand-daughterboard for WBX

1W (peak) ampli�ers

All diplexers and �lters for UMTS bands II, IV, V

Covers all US mobile phone bands

GPS band �lter for GPS receive

Great for making Femtocells

Coming Q1 2012

European band version coming later



New Products

QR-210

4-Way Receive, 700 MHz-4 GHz

8-Way IF-input version on request

Very high linearity, low noise

Extremely low phase noise

50-60 MHz instantaneous BW on each antenna

Virtex 5

10 GbE



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Future Directions

Four product areas

Ultra-Low cost devicesHigh bandwidth and dynamic range devicesEmbedded devicesSemi-custom, SIGINT- and test-oriented


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