Announcement from Matt Ettus:

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USRP News and Announcements September 2008

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1 USRP2 Now Available 2 Status of the original USRP 3 Daughterboard Status 4 Upcoming Events

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1 USRP2 Now Available

We are very happy to be able to announce that the USRP2 is now available for purchase. The USRP2 builds on the success of the original USRP, and adds these new features:

- Gigabit Ethernet interface - 25 MHz of instantaneous RF bandwidth - Xilinx Spartan 3-2000 FPGA - Dual 100 MHz 14-bit ADCs - Dual 400 MHz 16-bit DACs - 1 MB of high-speed SRAM - Locking to an external 10 MHz reference - 1 PPS (pulse per second) input - Configuration stored on standard SD cards - Standalone operation - The ability to lock multiple systems together for MIMO - Compatibility with all the same daughterboards as the original USRP

At this time, the USRP2 is in "beta release" state. Not all of the software and/or features are currently ready for production use. The USRP2 is initially supported on Linux, and we anticipate that drivers for Windows, Mac OS X, and other systems will be developed in the coming months.

We are currently offering the USRP2 for a special introductory price of $1400, which may change in early 2009.

Due to the high initial demand, and the beta release status, we have made some modifications to the normal order fulfillment process:

- You may order as many systems as you like, but we can only ship up to 2 units to each customer from the first batch. The remainder will be held as a back-order, and will be shipped when available. You can cancel the remainder at any time, if you wish.

- Precedence will be given to longtime members of, and contributors to, the GNU Radio / USRP community.

- There are no quantity, academic, distributor, reseller, or other discounts. We will not be selling to resellers for the time being, only directly.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but we feel that this policy will ensure that we can get systems to the maximum number of users in the short term.

The USRP2 package includes the USRP2 motherboard, an enclosure, 2 SMA-SMA Bulkhead cables for RF, an ethernet cable, power supply, SD memory card, and a hardware packet. The USRP2 is only available in this complete package configuration.

Also available are extra ethernet cables, extra SD cards, and SD memory reader/writers for USB ports. The power supply is the same as the one used for the original USRP.

For those wishing to use their USRP2s in a MIMO configuration, we are selling the USRP2 MIMO cable for $70 each. You only need 1 MIMO cable for every pair of USRP2s.

The beginning of a wiki page for the USRP2 is at:

http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/USRP2

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2 Status of the original USRP

We will continue to produce and support the original USRP for the forseeable future. We have no intention of discontinuing it.

There is no trade-in or upgrade program available.

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3 Daughterboard Status

Unfortunately, the release of the WBX0510 has been significantly delayed. We hope to have it ready in early 2009. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

The RFX400, which covers 400 to 500 MHz has been reintroduced, at the original price of $275. These are available to order immediately.

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4 Upcoming Events

The USRP2 will demonstrated at the TAPR Digital Communications Conference, and will be the subject of a technical talk given by Matt. The DCC is being held in Chicago from September 26th through 28th.

http://www.tapr.org/dcc

Ettus Research is proud to be a sponsor of the 2008 IEEE DySPAN conference on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks. Johnathan Corgan of Corgan Enterprises will be giving a half-day tutorial on GNU Radio and the USRP, and there will be public demonstrations of the USRP and USRP2. DySPAN 2008 will be held from October 14th through 17th in Chicago, Illinois.

http://www.ieee-dyspan.org/2008

Ettus Research will be exhibiting at the SDR'08 Technical Conference and Product Exposition, being held from October 26th through 30th in Washington, D.C. Matt is also the chair for the "Open Source Hardware and Software" session which will feature several exciting papers. Additionally, Ettus Research is proud to be a sponsor of the 2008 Smart Radio Challenge, a competition between university teams to solve real world communication problems using software radios.

http://sdrforum.org/sdr08/index.html http://www.radiochallenge.org/

If you attend any of these events, please make sure to stop by and introduce yourself!

ARRL SDR Working Group Chair Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. "Trample the slow .... Hurdle the dead"

-----Original Message----- From: discuss-gnuradio-bounces+rwmcgwier=gmail.com@gnu.org [mailto:discuss-gnuradio-bounces+rwmcgwier=gmail.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Matt Ettus Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:06 PM To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 Announcement