USRP is an open source platform for signal processing (www.ettus.com). Simsonar utilizes its powerfull capacity of signal handling and available source code libraries including decimation, interpolation and conversions.

The USRP has four analog to digital converters being able to handle 64 million samples per second. Respectively there are four digital to analog converters with the capacity of 128 million samples per second. The input and output channels are connected to an Altera Cyclone FPGA. The USRP connects to the computer via a high speed USB2 interface (480 Mbps). Simsonar Reflector operates in the frequencies between 10 kHz and 2 MHz which leaves a significant amount of overhead for Simsonar application.

USRP supports multiple daughter boards that in Simsonar applications are sound transducers called AFE's (Analog Front End).


USRP
USRP diagram

USRP board
Functional diagram of USRP

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