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DE GENDRE, Raphaëlle, 03/23/2016 10:33 AM

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* USRP: Universal Software Radio Peripheral 





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The USRP (when an antenna is plugged) can receive analog signals from a range of center frequency of 50 MHz up to 2.2 GHz, covering the ISM, FM radio, GPS, GSM and radar bands. It  can therefore receive signal at the frequency of our emitter which is 434 Mhz in the ISM band and pass it through the computer.





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* PC running with labview with a gigabit ethernet connection





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The set up is the following:





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The computer gets the data from the USRP  via the ethernet connection.





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h1. Software





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* NI Labview 2015 





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The software that was used for the implementation is Labview 2015 from National Instruments. Labview 2015 and its extensions can be downloaded from the National Instrument Website. This software allows a platform-based approach and enables to develop with a graphical interface. In this language, data is represented by wires and it is processed by functions represented by blocks wich contain input and output interfaces. By linking the wires to the input or output of a functions we can code the processing of a data. What is very handy with Labview is that we can visualize the data while the program is running. Furthemore, it contains a lot of libraries that enable to process RF signals, get the bits and convert them into integers.





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* NI USRP Driver





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After downloading  Labview, we downloaded the NI USRP driver to get all the libraries and vi needed to operate the USRP. //link





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* NI Modulation toolkit





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Finally, we used the Modulation toolkit in order to have the necessary libraries to process our signal. You need to download it if you want to run this receiver.





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h3. NB:  





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* Make sure that you download Labview first, otherwise it won't recognize the pre-installed extensions.





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* The computer connected to the USRP needs to have a network card which supports a gigabits ethernet connection in order for the communication to work.