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Installation Guide of GNU RADIO On Ubuntu

This document provides instructions for installing GNU Radio, an open source software development toolkit for software-defined radios, on Ubuntu. It describes what software-defined radios and GNU Radio are, lists the required packages to install, and outlines the 6 step process for installation including upgrading Ubuntu, installing packages, downloading and compiling GNU Radio, accessing the USRP hardware, and testing the installation. Additional information is provided on common error corrections and demonstrations or experiments that can be run once GNU Radio is installed.

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Installation Guide of GNU RADIO On Ubuntu

This document provides instructions for installing GNU Radio, an open source software development toolkit for software-defined radios, on Ubuntu. It describes what software-defined radios and GNU Radio are, lists the required packages to install, and outlines the 6 step process for installation including upgrading Ubuntu, installing packages, downloading and compiling GNU Radio, accessing the USRP hardware, and testing the installation. Additional information is provided on common error corrections and demonstrations or experiments that can be run once GNU Radio is installed.

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Installation Guide of GNU RADIO

On Ubuntu

By,

Sathya S.

Tushar A.

Kiran K.

Veera B.
SOFTWARE RADIO
A software (defined) radio is a radio that includes a transmitter
in which the operating parameters of the transmitter, including
the frequency range, modulation type or maximum radiated or
conducted output power can be altered by making a change in
software without making any hardware changes.
A technique for moving digital signal processing as close as
possible to the antenna.
Replacing rigid Hardware with flexible software based solutions.
What is GNU radio
Free software toolkit for:
Building and deploying software radios
Creating new kinds of radios, modulations,
protocols, development environments...
GNU Radio is a free software toolkit for
learning about, building, and
deploying software-defined radio systems.

Framework

An open source software toolkit

Supports, Linux, Mac OS and Windows
Creating signal processing applications
Defining waveforms in software
Processing waveforms in software

A hardware platform
USRP,
USRP 2

Free Software
All the software are free (Python and C++ source code/Linux
environment)
In most condition, no need expensive RF test machine.
Only a development board needed (Universal Software Radio
Peripheral 2)
Flexible
Software:
Reconfigurable for many other modulation methods for
both standardize radio or self-defined radio.
Hardware:
Rx and Tx are selectable .
Intermediate frequency is controllable.

Extensive Knowledge Involved
Software and Environment:
Python/Numeric python library/wxPython
C++/boost C++ libraries
Linux environment and lots of support packages:
FFTW/cppunit/SWIG/SDCC/
GNU Radio architecture

Communications and RF:
DSP
Digital communications
Wireless communications theory
FPGA and Assemble language may be used

STEPS INVOLVED IN INSTALLATION
AND SETUP OF GNURADIO
Step: 1- Upgrading Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Version)
# aptget update
Step: 2- Install Required Packages
sudo apt-get -y install swig g++ automake1.9 libtool python2.5-dev
fftw3-dev \ libcppunit-dev libboost1.35-dev sdcc-nf libusb-dev \
libsdl1.2-dev python-wxgtk2.8 subversion git guile-1.8-dev \
libqt4-dev python-numpy ccache python-opengl libgsl0-dev \
python-cheetah python-lxml doxygen qt4-dev-tools \
libqwt5-qt4-dev libqwtplot3d-qt4-dev pyqt4-dev-tools

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Step: 3- Installing Boost (required for lower
versions)
# cd boost_1_36_0
# BOOST_PREFIX=/usr/bin/boost
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/bin/boost --with-libraries=thread,
date_time
# make
# make install
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Step: 4- Downloading & Compiling GNU Radio
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Ref. [2]
Install GNU Radio either from:
-SVN svn co http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk
gnuradio
or from git:
-git clone http://gnuradio.org/git/gnuradio.git cd
gnuradio
-export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$BOOST_PREFIX/lib # As per the
instructions for installing Boost
-./bootstrap
-./configure --with-boost=$BOOST_PREFIX # As per the
instructions for installing Boost
-make
-make check
-sudo make install

Step 5:Logging in as root
Why as Root?
- Its easy to access secured files when as root.
-Also we can access hardware components and drivers easily.

How to do so?
- Under the home directory of terminal command su will let us into the
root directory which will thereby prompt us the root password which is set
under our discretion.
- To exit the root use ctrl + d


Step: 6- Testing
#find_usrps
# cd gnuradio-examples/python/usrp
# ./usrp_benchmark_usb.py
When in root:
Verify if the USRP2 is avaliable to Ubuntu:
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Verify if GNU Radio works with the USRP:
Python interface to USRP
C++ interface to USRP
# cd usrp/host/apps
# ./test_usrp_standard_tx
# ./test_usrp_standard_rx
00:50:c2:85:32:95 hw_rev = 0xo400
If USRP2 is connected the following result is displayed:
Error correction on linking phase
1) Make a copy from the current ld.so.conf file
and save it in a temp folder:


2) Add /usr/local/lib path to it :


3) If you installed Boost (version 1_37_0 for
example) manually, then add its library path to
the file:


4) Delete the original ld.so.conf file and put the
modified file instead:


5) Do ldconfig:



cp /etc/ld.so.conf /tmp/ld.so.conf
echo /usr/local/lib >> /tmp/ld.so.conf
echo /opt/boost_1_37_0/lib >> /tmp/ld.so.conf
sudo mv /tmp/ld.so.conf /etc/ld.so.conf
sudo ldconfig
Demonstrations
Experiment: 1
# cd gnuradio-3.2.2/gnuradio-examples/python/usrp2
#./usrp2_fft.py -R B -d 250 f 2.4G g 10
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Fast Fourier Transform
References
http://gnuradio.org/download

http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/gnuradio/UbuntuInstall

http://www.wu.ece.ufl.edu/projects/softwareRadio/documents/L
ibrary_20061129.doc.




THANK YOU

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