2015

FM Receiver
Using
GNU Radio and USRP

Author: Rakesh
Email id: rakesh@tenettech.com

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What is GNU Radio?

GNU Radio is a software library, which can be used to develop complete applications
What is Universal Software Radio Peripherial(USRP)?
The USRP is an integrated board which incorporates analog-to-digital converters
(ADC) and digital-to-analog converters (DAC), some forms of RF front end, and an FPGA
which does some important but computationally expensive pre-processing of the input
signal.
GNU Radio along with the USRP makes the complete Software Defined Radio
Introduction to Universal Software Radio Peripheral
The Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) enables engineers to rapidly design
and implement powerful, flexible software radio systems. The intuitive USRP design helps
you to get your software radio up and running quickly.
Simply download GNU Radio, a complete open source software radio and signal processing
package, and the USRP is ready to use. Once you install the software and plug the USRP into
a host computer, it is ready to transmit and receive a virtually limitless variety of signals .
Features of USRP
Four 64 MS/s 12-bit analog to digital Converters
Four 128 MS/s 14-bit digital to analog Converters
Four digital downconverters with programmable decimation rates
Two digital upconverters with programmable interpolation rates
High-speed USB 2.0 interface (480 Mb/s)
Capable of processing signals up to 16 MHz wide
Modular architecture supports wide variety of RF daughterboards
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 Auxiliary analog and digital I/O support complex radio controls such as RSSI
and AGC
Blocks for building FM receiver

The USRP Source block initiates the flow graph in the GNU
Radio that allows the interfacing with the hardware (USRP).The
important parameter to be noticed is the output port which is
blue in color, which means that signals are received in complex
(16bit) format and there are other parameters to be mentioned
in the block like shown in the figure

The band pass filter is used to filter out the unwanted high
frequency components and to tune to all the FM stations
available. The band pass filter has a decimation factor in order
to reduce the incoming samples.

The wideband FM receiver is used to demodulate the received

signal. The Quadrature rate parameter indicates, at what rate
the demodulated signals are passed out. The input received is
complex and the output is in float format.
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The Rational Resampler block is meant for resampling the

signals. In other way, it performs both interpolation and
decimation process in order to adjust the sampling rate that is
suitable to the output sink.
Ratio = (input sampling rate*interpolation)/decimation

The audio sink block terminates the flow graph in GNU Radio. It
is used to listen to the tuned FM stations at 96 kilo samples/sec.

The FFT sink is used to view frequency domain representation

of the output.

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The final flow graph of the FM receiver

USRP SETUP

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 Connect the usb2.0 cable to communicate with the host PC.

The wbx daughter board is mounted at the given slot on the motherboard
which is capable of receiving the signal from 50MHZ to 2.2GHZ.
Connect the vert200 antenna for the reception of the FM
Finally supply the power to switch on the board .

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