TY - GEN
T1 - Teaching software defined radio using the USRP and LabVIEW
AU - Welch, Thad B.
AU - Shearman, Sam
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The universal software radio peripheral (USRP) family of products has become a popular platform for hardware-based research and test bed validations conducted by universities in the software defined radio (SDR) and cognitive radio (CR) fields. With the recently released version of National Instruments (NI) LabVIEW, the USRP now offers a scalable, simpler, and easier to use combined platform. The new software support broadens the accessibility of the USRP platform for teaching applications and will spur further adoption within university communication systems classrooms, teaching laboratories, and their natural follow-on coursework. This paper will discuss the utilization of LabVIEW-based virtual instrumentation with the USRP to rapidly create real-time communication systems demonstrations for the classroom and/or laboratory settings. The combination of the USRP, LabVIEW, and Windows support enables implementation and exploration of both foundational and more advanced concepts related to signal processing and communications.
AB - The universal software radio peripheral (USRP) family of products has become a popular platform for hardware-based research and test bed validations conducted by universities in the software defined radio (SDR) and cognitive radio (CR) fields. With the recently released version of National Instruments (NI) LabVIEW, the USRP now offers a scalable, simpler, and easier to use combined platform. The new software support broadens the accessibility of the USRP platform for teaching applications and will spur further adoption within university communication systems classrooms, teaching laboratories, and their natural follow-on coursework. This paper will discuss the utilization of LabVIEW-based virtual instrumentation with the USRP to rapidly create real-time communication systems demonstrations for the classroom and/or laboratory settings. The combination of the USRP, LabVIEW, and Windows support enables implementation and exploration of both foundational and more advanced concepts related to signal processing and communications.
KW - Communication Engineering Education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867621178&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288496
DO - 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288496
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867621178
SN - 9781467300469
T3 - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
SP - 2789
EP - 2792
BT - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012 - Proceedings
T2 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012
Y2 - 25 March 2012 through 30 March 2012
ER -