The Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) products are computer-hosted software radios. They are designed and sold by Ettus Research, LLC and its parent company, National Instruments. The USRP product family is intended to be a comparatively inexpensive hardware platform for software radio, and is commonly used by research labs, universities, and hobbyists. USRPs connect to a host computer through a high-speed USB or Gigabit Ethernet link, which the host-based software uses to control the USRP hardware and transmit/receive data. Some USRP models also integrate the general functionality of a host computer with an embedded processor that allows the USRP Embedded Series to operate in a standalone fashion.
The USRP family was designed for accessibility, and many of the products are open source. The board schematics for select USRP models are freely available for download; all USRP products are controlled with the open source UHD driver. USRPs are commonly used with the GNU Radio software suite to create complex software-defined radio systems.
The USRP family was developed by a team led by Matt Ettus.
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