For End Users

Everyone using Pluto should read these pages. They will demonstrate how to interact with RF signals with MATLAB, Simulink, GNU Radio or custom C, C++, C#, or Python code on a host (x86) or embedded (Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone, 96boards.org, etc.) platform over USB. As you can see, we have lots of examples with MATLAB and Simulink, as we find that a very powerful environment, and a path to a releasable radio (you can take your algorithms, and easily embed them into a custom product).

Contents

Hardware

• Introduction to the Hardware

• What’s with the name? PlutoSDR?

• Understanding the Internals

• How hot?

• How Far, How fast?

• RF Output

• Phase Noise & Accuracy

• RF Input

• Receiver Sensitivity

• Dealing with Non-Quadrature signals

• Antennas

• Letter of Volatility

Software

• Quick Start

• Installing Device Drivers on: Windows, Linux, MAC

• Upgrading Firmware

• Calibrating

• Customizing

Applications

Once the drivers are configured and set up, you can interact with the ADALM-PLUTO Active Learning Module from:

• Scopy

• gqrx, an open source software defined radio receiver (SDR) powered by the GNU Radio

• Official support for MATLAB and Simulink

• MATLAB IIO Bindings

• GNU Radio

• SDRangel, an Open Source Qt5 / OpenGL 3.0+ SDR and signal analyzer frontend to various hardware.

• SDR#. The PlutoSDR frontend for SDRsharp can be found here: sdrsharp-plutosdr

• SoapySDR. The Soapy SDR plugin for PlutoSDR can be found here: SoapyPlutoSDR

• Access and control of PlutoSDR hardware using python bindings to libiio

• Python Interfaces

• C Examples

Resources

• ASEE Papers