Getting Help
Getting Started guide on bladeRF wiki
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If you run into trouble or have questions, the Nuand forums
are a great place to ask for help.
Slack
Nuand now has a community slack, which can be joined through the following invite link.
The Nuand team can also be reached at [email protected] or via the web form on the contact page.
Documentation
- bladeRF Product Brief
- libbladeRF API documentation
- An SDR-Based FRS Transceiver (PDF)
- GNU Radio flowgraph is available here
Pre-built Binaries
These pages provide pre-built FPGA bitstreams and FX3 firmware images.
Be sure to check the releases page on GitHub
for recommended host software, FPGA bitstream, and FX3 firmware version sets.
Useful links
- Source code on GitHub
- bladeRF Wiki
- bladeRF VCTCXO factory calibration lookup
- SDR-Radio
- SDRAngel
- Airspy
- SRS-LTE
- OpenAirInterface (Ensure you use `develop' branch)
- SDR# Github
- SDR# precompiled binaries
- Experimental ioctl() gqrx source code tarball
- Experimental ioctl() gr-osmosdr source code tarball
YateBTS
To use the bladeRF 2.0 micro with YateBTS, please see Nuand's libbladeRF based YateBTS Release Candidate 3 (RC-3) link below:
Before compiling Yate and YateBTS from the following tarballs, ensure libbladeRF (Github) is built from bladeRF commit hash 3a411c8. To fetch libbladeRF commit 3a411c8 try the following:
$ git clone https://github.com/Nuand/bladeRF.git
$ cd bladeRF
$ git reset --hard 3a411c87c2416dc68030d5823d73ebf3f797a145
$ ls
Once fetched, continue following the rest of the building from source instructions, continuing at the Configure the build step.
After libbladeRF is installed, download the latest RC Yate/YateBTS tarball, and follow the rest of the Github wiki instructions from step "Building and Installing Yate & YateBTS".
Prior to starting yate in this step load the appropriate bladeRF device and size specific v0.11.1 FPGA RBF included in the tarball.
Latest RC:
The Nuand team can also be reached at [email protected] or via the web form on the contact page.
Documentation
- bladeRF Product Brief
- libbladeRF API documentation
- An SDR-Based FRS Transceiver (PDF)
- GNU Radio flowgraph is available here
Pre-built Binaries
These pages provide pre-built FPGA bitstreams and FX3 firmware images.Be sure to check the releases page on GitHub for recommended host software, FPGA bitstream, and FX3 firmware version sets.
Useful links
- Source code on GitHub
- bladeRF Wiki
- bladeRF VCTCXO factory calibration lookup
- SDR-Radio
- SDRAngel
- Airspy
- SRS-LTE
- OpenAirInterface (Ensure you use `develop' branch)
- SDR# Github
- SDR# precompiled binaries
- Experimental ioctl() gqrx source code tarball
- Experimental ioctl() gr-osmosdr source code tarball
YateBTS
To use the bladeRF 2.0 micro with YateBTS, please see Nuand's libbladeRF based YateBTS Release Candidate 3 (RC-3) link below:Before compiling Yate and YateBTS from the following tarballs, ensure libbladeRF (Github) is built from bladeRF commit hash 3a411c8. To fetch libbladeRF commit 3a411c8 try the following:
$ git clone https://github.com/Nuand/bladeRF.git $ cd bladeRF $ git reset --hard 3a411c87c2416dc68030d5823d73ebf3f797a145 $ lsOnce fetched, continue following the rest of the building from source instructions, continuing at the Configure the build step.
After libbladeRF is installed, download the latest RC Yate/YateBTS tarball, and follow the rest of the Github wiki instructions from step "Building and Installing Yate & YateBTS".
Prior to starting yate in this step load the appropriate bladeRF device and size specific v0.11.1 FPGA RBF included in the tarball.
Latest RC:
For Yate (from SVN) and YateBTS (from SVN) installation instructions (for v1.0 only), without needing libbladeRF fetch Yate and YateBTS from the Null SVN try these YateBTS installation instructions.
Schematics
- bladeRF 1.0 (x40 and x115 devices)
- bladeRF 2.0 micro (xA4 and xA9 devices)
- XB-100 GPIO expansion board (pinout and connections)
- XB-200 transverter (filter designs)
All specifications subject to change at any time without notice. bladeRF is sold as test equipment and is expected for all intents and purposes to be used as such. Use of this device is at your own risk and discretion. Nuand LLC makes no warranty of any kind (whether express or implied) with regard to material presented on this page, and disclaims any and all warranties, including accuracy of this document, or the implied warranties of merchatability and fitness for use.