Nuand bladeRF

bladeRF is a USB 3.0-based, next-generation Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform, offering a frequency range of 47 MHz to 6 GHz, 61.44 MHz sampling rate, and 2x2 MIMO streaming. Packed into a small form factor, bladeRF was designed for high performance and mobile applications.

At the core of bladeRF is the latest generation Cyclone V FPGA from Intel (formerly Altera). bladeRF xA9 features a 301KLE FPGA, the largest-in-class size. The FPGA provides plenty of room for hardware-accelerated modems, digital filtering, and other logic benefiting from the extreme parallel processing capabilities of the FPGA. 

bladeRF is used by industry and academic researchers in telecommunications, RADAR, and MRI applications or by researchers looking for flexible, inexpensive hardware for wireless research. All drivers are open source and available for modification.

MATLAB^® and Simulink^® support is exposed using system objects and is implemented by using loadlibrary and calllib to interact with the bladeRF’s lightweight C library. An easy-to-use MATLAB object interface is available for quick use from the command line or in applications. For users needing more control, the entire libbladeRF API is also directly available within MATLAB. Nuand also provides a graphical tool for plotting the time and frequency domain response of waveforms. This tool works best with the Signal Processing Toolbox.