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This wiki will serve as a place to create some community-based documentation. Please feel free to create a page and link it here!

Table of Contents Getting Started bladeRF software build/installation Expansion Boards and Accessories Help and How-to's Projects, Papers, and Blogs Tutorials and Related Reading Signal Processing and RF Amateur Radio Development Recommended Reading Project Maintenance Ongoing and future efforts

Getting Started

bladeRF software build/installation

These guides describe the process of building and installing the bladeRF software from source code. If you've just received your bladeRF, this is the place to start.

• Getting Started: Linux Live Images
• Getting Started: Linux
• Getting Started: Windows
• Getting Started: Mac OSX
• Getting Started: Verifying Basic Device Operation

Expansion Boards and Accessories

• Getting Started: XB-200 Transverter Board
• bladeRF Accessories

Help and How-to's

• Troubleshooting
  • This guide lists common problems and issues, with some advice and potential fixes.
• Upgrading the bladeRF firmware
  • This guide describes both the normal firmware and bootloader-based firmware upgrade procedures.
• bladeRF CLI Tips and Tricks
  • This pages provides information regarding the use of the bladeRF-cli
• FPGA Autoloading
  • Setting up the bladeRF to have its FPGA loaded automatically
• DC offset and IQ Imbalance Correction
  • Information about DC offset and IQ balance correction mechanisms
• Debugging dropped samples and identifying achievable sample rates

Projects, Papers, and Blogs

Feel free to share your favorite projects, papers, blogs, etc. containing bladeRF and/or SDR content! Be sure to also check out the Project Showcase on the forums.

• YateBTS
  • Yate Blog: Software Defined Mobile Network
    • OFDM - the science behind LTE
• OpenBTS
  • Minimalistic build and run test for OpenBTS 5
  • "Should you need OpenBTS on your bladeRF" on the The Sorrows of Interactive Media blog
• ATSC Transmitter
• Blog: Clayton's Domain
  • Reverse Engineering a Ceiling Fan
  • Digital amateur TV on 70cm, 33cm, and 23cm
• GitHub: argilo's sdr-examples
• GitHub: drmpeg's projects
  • Utilities for SDR digital television
  • A DVB-S transmitter for GNU Radio
  • A DVB-S2 and DVB-S2X transmitter for GNU Radio
  • Mapping block for bladeRF ATSC modulater and RRC filter FPGA image
• GitHub: GPS baseband signal generator
• GitHub: GNSS-SDRLIB: An Open Source GNSS Software Defined Radio Library
• Jiao Xianjun (BH1RXH)'s tech blog and publications
  • Fork of an OpenCL accelerated TDD/FDD LTE Scanner, with bladeRF support added
  • A BTLE (Bluetooth Low energy)/BT4.0 radio packet transmitter
• GitHub: rtl-entropy: An entropy generator using SDR peripherals, including rtl-sdr and BladeRF
• Blog Post by Sean Cassidy: Your Own Verifiable Hardware RNG with bladeRF SDR
• An inter-balloon data relay using Software Defined Radios: Paving the way for distributed space systems
  • Congratulations to team MONSTER for winning the "Best Space Technology Demonstration" prize in the Global Space Balloon Challenge!

Tutorials and Related Reading

Find or learn something interesting? Share it here!

Signal Processing and RF

• Quadrature Signals: Complex, But Not Complicated
• I/Q Data for Dummies
• MIT OpenCourseWare: Signals and Systems (Spring 2011), Prof Alan V. Oppenheim
• Complete GPS/GLONASS Receiver Design
• Software Radio for Experimenters with GNU Radio, Octave and Python by Michel Barbeau
• Let's Assume the System Is Synchronized by Fredric J. Harris
• Presentations:
  • Multirate Digital Signal Processing by Fredric J. Harris
• Books:
  • Understanding Digital Signal Processing by Richard G. Lyons
  • Software Receiver Design: Build Your Own Digital Communication System In Five Easy Steps by C. Richard Johnson, Jr., William A. Sethares, & Andrew G. Klein
• Application Notes:
  • Atmel: Manchester Coding Basics

Amateur Radio

• American Radio Relay League
• US Amateur Radio Bands

Development

See the doc/ and doc/development directories for "official" development-related documentation.

Recommended Reading

• Using Git and GitHub
• Debugging

Project Maintenance

• Linux Distribution Status
• Static Analysis
• Proposals and Requests
• FX3 Firmware Development

Ongoing and future efforts

Working on new functionality or adding bladeRF support to a project? Create a page here to plan and document your efforts.

• Current and planned development tasks
• OpenBSC