Welcome to the bladeRF wiki!

This wiki will serve as a place to create some community-based documentation. Please feel free to create a page and link it here!

Table of Contents Getting Started bladeRF software build/installation Expansion Boards Help! How-To's Projects and Blogs Tutorials and Related Reading Signal Processing and RF Amateur Radio Development Recommended Reading Project Maintenance Ongoing and future efforts

These guides describe the process of building and installing the bladeRF software from source code. If you've just received your bladeRF, this is the place to start.

• Getting Started: Linux Live Images
• Getting Started: Linux
• Getting Started: Windows
• Getting Started: Mac OSX
• Getting Started: Verifying Basic Device Operation

• Getting Started: XB-200 Transverter Board

• Troubleshooting - This guide lists common problems and issues, with some advice and potential fixes.
• Upgrading the bladeRF firmware - This guide describes both the normal firmware and bootloader-based firmware upgrade procedures.

• FPGA Autoloading
• DC offset and IQ Imbalance Correction
• bladeRF CLI Tips and Tricks
• Debugging dropped samples and identifying achievable sample rates
• Minimalistic build and run test for OpenBTS 5

Feel free to share your favorite projects or blogs containing bladeRF and/or SDR content! Be sure to also check out the Project Showcase on the forums.

• ATSC Transmitter
• Blog: Clayton's Domain
  • Reverse Engineering a Ceiling Fan
  • Digital amateur TV on 70cm, 33cm, and 23cm
• Github: argilo's sdr-examples
• Github: drmpeg's projects
  • Utilities for SDR digital television
  • A DVB-S transmitter for GNU Radio
  • A DVB-S2 and DVB-S2X transmitter for GNU Radio
  • Mapping block for bladeRF ATSC modulater and RRC filter FPGA image

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• Quadrature Signals: Complex, But Not Complicated
• I/Q Data for Dummies
• MIT OpenCourseWare: Signals and Systems (Spring 2011), Prof Alan V. Oppenheim
• Complete GPS/GLONASS Receiver Design
• Software Radio for Experimenters with GNU Radio, Octave and Python by Michel Barbeau
• Let's Assume the System Is Synchronized by Fredric J. Harris
• Presentations:
  • Multirate Digital Signal Processing by Fredric J. Harris
• Books:
  • Understanding Digital Signal Processing by Richard G. Lyons
  • Software Receiver Design: Build Your Own Digital Communication System In Five Easy Steps by C. Richard Johnson, Jr., William A. Sethares, & Andrew G. Klein
• Application Notes:
  • Atmel: Manchester Coding Basics

• American Radio Relay League
• US Amateur Radio Bands

See the doc/ and doc/development directories for "official" development-related documentation.

• Using Git and GitHub
• Debugging

• Linux Distribution Status
• Static Analysis
• Proposals and Requests
• FX3 Firmware Development

Working on new functionality or adding bladeRF support to a project? Create a page here to plan and document your efforts.

• Current and planned development tasks
• OpenBSC