Comparative features list - B200

• integrated RF frontend (RF coverage from 70 MHz - 6 GHz)
• 1 RX DDC chain in FPGA
• 1 TX DUC chain in FPGA
• Timed commands in FPGA
• Timed sampling in FPGA
• External PPS reference
• External 10MHz reference
• Configurable clock rate
• Internal GPSDO option

Comparative features list - B210

• integrated MIMO frontend (RF coverage from 70 MHz - 6 GHz)
• 2 RX DDC chains in FPGA
• 2 TX DUC chains in FPGA
• Timed commands in FPGA
• Timed sampling in FPGA
• External PPS reference
• External 10MHz reference
• Configurable clock rate
• Internal GPSDO option

Specify a Non-standard Image

UHD software will automatically select the USRP B2X0 images from the installed images package. The image selection can be overridden with the --fpga= and --fw= device address parameters.

Example device address string representations to specify non-standard images:

fpga=usrp_b200_fpga.bin

-- OR --

fw=usrp_b200_fw.hex

Changing the Master Clock Rate

The master clock rate feeds the RF frontends and the DSP chains. Users may select non-default clock rates to acheive integer decimations or interpolations in the DSP chains. The default master clock rate defaults to 32 MHz, but can be set to any rate between 5 MHz and 61.44 MHz.

The user can set the master clock rate through the usrp API call set_master_clock_rate(), or the clock rate can be set through the device arguments, which many applications take:

uhd_usrp_probe --args="master_clock_rate=52e6"

RF Frontend Notes

The B200 features and integrated RF frontend.