List of software-defined radios
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This article provides a list of commercially available software-defined radio
receivers.
Software-defined radio
A software-defined radio system, or SDR, is a radio communication system where components that have been typically implemented in hardware are instead implemented by means of software on a personal computer or embedded computing devices...
receivers.
| Name | Type | Frequency range | Sampling rate | Tuning mechanism | Supported systems | Web site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitshark Express RX | kit | 300MHz - 4GHz | 105 MSPS (RX Only) | PCIe | Windows, Linux | http://www.epiqsolutions.com/express-rx/ |
| Matchstiq | pre-built | 300MHz - 3.8GHz | 40 MSPS (RX/TX) | USB | Linux | http://www.epiqsolutions.com/matchstiq/ |
| Perseus | pre-built | 10kHz - 40MHz (87.5MHz - 108MHz using FM down-converter) | 80 MS/s | USB | Windows | http://www.microtelecom.it/perseus/ |
| Pappradio | pre-built | 150kHz - 30MHz (210MHz using harmonics) | external ADC required (I/Q output) | USB | Windows, Linux | http://pappradio.de/ http://code.google.com/p/libpappradio/ |
| Soft66AD / Soft66ADD / Soft66LC | pre-built | 2.5MHz - 30MHz (70MHz with Soft66ADD) | external ADC required (I/Q output) | USB | Windows (Linux unofficially) | http://zao.jp/radio/soft66ad/ |
| FUNcube Dongle | pre-built | 64MHz - 1700MHz | 96kHz | USB | Windows, Linux, Mac | http://www.funcubedongle.com/ |
| FiFi-SDR | pre-built | 200kHz - 30MHz | 96kHz (integrated soundcard) | USB | Windows, Linux | http://o28.sischa.net/fifisdr/trac |
| SDR-IQ | pre-built | 0.1kHz - 30 MHz | 66.666MHz | ? | Windows, Linux | http://www.rfspace.com/RFSPACE/SDR-IQ.html |
| SDR-1 | kit and pre-built | 530kHz - 30MHz | ? | USB | Windows | http://www.electronicsisfun.com/sdr-1/ |
| Elektor SDR | kit and pre-built | 150kHz - 30 MHz | ? | ? | ? | http://www.elektor.com/magazines/2007/may/software-defined-radio.91527.lynkx |
| DRB 30 | pre-built | 30kHz - 30MHz | external ADC required (I/Q output) | LPT parallel port | Windows (up to XP) | http://www.nti-online.de/edirabox.htm |
| LD-1B | pre-built | 100kHz - 30MHz | external ADC required (I/Q output) | USB | Windows | http://www.lazydogengineering.com/LD-1B_SDR.html |
| PM-SDR | pre-built | 100kHz - 50MHz (up to 165MHz using harmonics) | external ADC required (I/Q output) | USB | Windows, Linux | http://www.iw3aut.altervista.org/ |
| QS1R | pre-built | 10kHz - 62.5Mhz (up to 500MHz using images/alias) | 130MHz | USB | Windows (Linux and Mac OS planned) | http://www.srl-llc.com/ |
| Kanga Finningley | kit | 3.750MHz +/- 48kHz | external ADC required (I/Q output) | none | any? | http://www.kanga-products.co.uk/index.php/products/finningley-80m-sdr |
| WinRadio WR-G31DCC | pre-built | 9kHz - 50MHz | 100MSPS | USB | Windows | http://www.winradio.com/home/g31ddc.htm |
| UHFSDR | kit | 1.75MHz - 700MHz | ? | LPT parallel port | ? | http://wb6dhw.com/For_Sale.html#UHFSDR |
| USRP1 Universal Software Radio Peripheral The Universal Software Radio Peripheral products are a family of computer-hosted hardware offered by Ettus Research LLC and its parent company, National Instruments, for making software radios. The USRP product is intended to be a comparatively inexpensive hardware device for software radio... |
up to 4 GHz with converters | 64MSPS (rcv) 128MSPS(trx) | USB 2.0 | Linux (GNU Radio GNU Radio GNU Radio is a free software toolkit for learning about, building, and deploying software-defined radio systems. GNU Radio is released under the GPL version 3 license.... ) |
http://www.ettus.com/products | |
| USRP2 Universal Software Radio Peripheral The Universal Software Radio Peripheral products are a family of computer-hosted hardware offered by Ettus Research LLC and its parent company, National Instruments, for making software radios. The USRP product is intended to be a comparatively inexpensive hardware device for software radio... |
up to 4 GHz with converters | 100MSPS (rcv) 400MSPS(trx) | Gigabit Ethernet | Linux (GNU Radio GNU Radio GNU Radio is a free software toolkit for learning about, building, and deploying software-defined radio systems. GNU Radio is released under the GPL version 3 license.... ) |
http://www.ettus.com/products | |
| SDR MK1.5 'Andrus' | pre-built, Open Source Design | 5kHz - 31MHz (1.7GHz downconverter opt.) | 64MSPS | USB 2.0, 10/100 Ethernet | Windows, Linux, Mac | http://uvb-76.net/p/sdr-mk15-andrus.html |