Airspy advanced open-source software defined radio receiver

 

 

What is Airspy?

Airspy is an advanced open-source software defined radio receiver with adequate dynamic range, capable of sampling 10MHz of spectrum anywhere between 24MHz and 1.8GHz – and even beyond with extensions. It is the only high performance wide band receiver solution in the market that’s yet affordable.

Reviews
Our core architecture has established a new standard for SDR receivers. This page lists a few reviews of Airspy made by renowned experts in the field.

Technical specifications:

• Continuous 24 – 1800 MHz RX range with no gaps
• 3.5 dB NF between 42 and 1002 MHz
• Tracking RF filters
• 35dBm IIP3 RF front end
• 12bit ADC @ 20 MSPS (80dB Dynamic Range, 64dB SNR, 10.4 ENOB) – Yeah, size does matter.
• 10MSPS IQ output
• Experimental 2.5MSPS IQ output for low power devices (Raspberry Pi, Odroid, etc.)
• Up to 80 MSPS for custom applications
• Cortex M4F @ up to 204MHz with Multi Core support (dual M0)
• 1.5 ppm high precision, low phase noise clock
• 1 RTC clock (for packet time-stamping)
• External clock input (10 MHz to 100 MHz via MCX connector) – Ideal for phase coherent radios
• 10 MHz panoramic spectrum view with 9MHz alias/image free
• IQ or Real, 16bit fixed or 32bit float output streams
• No IQ imbalance, DC offset or 1/F noise at the center of the spectrum that plagues all the other SDRs
• Extension ports: 16 x SGPIO
• 1 x RF Input (SMA)
• 1 x RF Output (Loopthrough, U-FL)
• 2 x High Speed ADC inputs (up to 80 MSPS, U-FL)
• 4.5v software switched Bias-Tee to power LNA’s and up/down-converters
• No drivers required! 100% Plug-and-play on Windows Vista, Seven, 8 and 8.1

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Possible usages:

• Radio surveillance,
• Fast scanner,
• Spectrum Analyzer,
• Satellite IF,
• Direction Finding,
• Passive Radars,
• ADS-B,
• FM Radio,
• Analog TV,
• Digital Terrestrial TV,
• Ham Radio,
• Radio Astronomy,
• Satellite base stations,
• IF Panoramic adapter

Supported Software:

• SDR#
• HDSDR via ExtIO_Airspy.dll
• SDR-Console
• GQRX
• GNU Radio

Supported platforms:

• Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1 (XP works but it has been deprecated by Microsoft)
• Linux
• *BSD
• OSX

Minimum hardware requirements:

• 3rd gen Intel i3 2.4 GHz CPU or equivalent
• 2GB of RAM (to run your own OS, airspy barely needs 1MB of memory)
• High speed USB 2.0 controller

Developer API:

• Open source multi-platform libairspy and airspy host tools at github
• Open source airspy firmware at github
• Linux kernel SDR API (by Antti Palosaari) at github

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