Upcoming N310 and E320 SDRs
Igor Alvarado
National Instruments
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(under NDA with SMU)
The N300 SDR Family
N300 Family Motherboard
2 GB FPGA DRAM
(DDR3)
2 GB ARM DRAM
(DDR3)
RJ45 (Ethernet) connector
Daughterboard
connectors
2 SFP+ Ports
(10 GbE)
USB 2.0 Port
JTAG Port
Front
Rear
Xilinx Zynq Chip
Embedded ARM processor + user-programmable FPGA
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New RFIC
N300 Family Architecture
ADI 9371 (“Mykonos”)
based daughtercard
Front
ADI 9371 (“Mykonos”)
based daughtercard
N3x0 Motherboard
Rear
ADI 9371 “Mykonos”
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New enclosure, smaller, lighter
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Key Specs
Key RF Performance Specifications:
• Up to 4 Tx channels, 4 Rx channels
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RF daughtercard based on the new Analog Devices 9371 RFIC
16-bit resolution, 100MHz Instantaneous Rx RF bandwidth/channel
14-bit resolution, 100 MHz Instantaneous Tx RF bandwidth/channel
Phase Coherent
10 MHz – 6 GHz Frequency Coverage
IQ impairment corrections: IQ Sampling with IQ imbalance, DC offset
calibration
Programmable 128 tap Tx FIR filter
Programmable 96 tap Rx FIR filter
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New networking capabilities
• Remote firmware & OS updates
• Remote reboot
• Remote factory reset
• Remote diagnostics including system health
• Watchdog timer
• Quadrature and DC corrections
• Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
Network Connection
Remote Devices (potentially several km apart)
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Remote User PC
New software options
Embedded Mode:
• Application runs on ARM
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Embedded Linux OS
• Use the Xilinx Zynq FPGA for compute intensive processing
• Network access (internet, ssh, etc) via SFP+ and RJ45
• Host USB
Network Mode:
• Application runs on host computer
• High speed data streaming
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USRP N300 Family Overview
• Channels: up to 4x4 per device
• 100 MHz bandwidth/channel
• 10 MHz – 6 GHz
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Embedded ARM processor for
stand-alone operation
Large user-programmable FPGA
– Zynq 7100 or Zynq 7035
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• 2 x 10 GbE streaming support
• Remote management support
• Rack mountable, half wide, 1U
Support for UHD/RFNoC, GNU
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Radio, LabVIEW Communications
(post release) & MATLAB (post
release)
Available: Q1 2018
Applications:
• Communications System
Design/Prototyping
• 5G NR, LTE, 802.11
• UE emulation
• massive MIMO
• SIGINT/EW
• Spectrum Monitoring
• Navigation
• Record & Playback
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