Supported Hardware – Software-Defined Radio

Support for third-party software-defined radio hardware, such as Xilinx®, RTL-SDR, ADALM-PLUTO, and USRP™ radios

Communications Toolbox™ supports this hardware.

Support Package Vendor Earliest Release Available Latest Release Available
ADALM-Pluto Radio Analog Devices® R2017a Current
RTL-SDR Radio NooElec™ R2013b Current
USRP Embedded Series Radio Ettus Research™ R2016b Current
USRP Radio Ettus Research R2011b Current
Xilinx Zynq-Based Radio Xilinx R2014b Current

For a list of support packages that you can use with Communications Toolbox, visit theHardware Supportcatalog page for Communications Toolbox.

Read a signal from external hardware devices using the Communications Toolbox support packages for software-defined radio (SDR). Process captured or live over-the-air wireless signals using Communications Toolbox features.

Design, prototype, and test SDR applications in MATLAB®and Simulink®with live radio signals. Use the supported hardware as a radio peripheral with the supplied bit stream. Run your own design in FPGAs with the automated targeting workflow by using HDL Coder™. The support packages for SDR support fixed bit-stream and custom bit-stream (user-provided logic) workflows for SDR Targeting.

For more information about software-defined radios with MATLAB and Simulink, seeSoftware-Defined Radio (SDR).

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