NEW!
bladeRF 2.0 micro
Software Defined Radio

The tagged 2025.10 release marks a major upgrade to throughput, stability, and streaming capabilities of the bladeRF 2.0 micro. The patch sets have existed in the repository for a while but the changes just finally passed our extensive validation. The changes were planed to maintain backward compatibility with existing applications. Lastly, Windows support now features native Windows API locking primitives; the Windows installer is available for download.

If you are attending DEFCON 32, meet us at our DEFCON vendor booth to have your bladeRF 2.0 micro calibrated!

Fully characterized test equipment has long been a gold standard, so we are happy to be bringing a low-cost full gain calibration to the bladeRF 2.0 micro! Gain calibrated bladeRFs can be used to transmit at precise output power levels, and to accurately measure the power of received RF signals – the bladeRF basically becomes a power meter!

Extending the bladeRF Sample Rate

The 2023.02 release adds the capability of extending the bladeRF’s sampling rate and the addition of 8-bit mode. This update takes advantage of the hidden AD9361 overclocking feature and overcomes the throughput limitation by adopting a new multi-sample packing architecture. The following features have been added.

• AD9361 Overclock to 122.88MSPS IQ samples
• 8-bit Mode Support: LibbladeRF and FPGA
• 8-bit Mode Support: BladeRF CLI
• 8-bit Mode Support: OsmoSDR  and gr-bladeRF
• `generate` function added to CLI

Be sure to check out the updated API docs for more details on the new 8-bit mode. The update is available on bladeRF releases.