Use the software of your choice
The NI Ettus USRP X410 is fully supported on the popular open-source USRP Hardware Driver (UHD) version 4.1 or later[2]. UHD 4.1 was designed to support the large data movement requirements imposed by the 400 MHz bandwidth and multiple channels onboard. The USRP X410 supports open-source SDR design flows such as C/C++ and GNU Radio, as well as LabVIEW FPGA [1]. Unlike other RFSoC-based systems, the USRP X410 is fully ready to port your previous UHD designs to take advantage of high-performance capabilities with a simple recompile.

Networked / Stand-Alone Operation
Since the USRP X410 is built on the ZU28DR RF System on Chip (RFSoC) device, it comes equipped with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processing subsystem, clocked up to 1.2 GHz for stand-alone application requirements. Additionally, the RFSoC contains a dual-core ARM Cortex-R5 real-time processing unit for onboard monitoring and control.

Built-In IP
The onboard RFSoC on the USRP X410 contains more than twice the FPGA programmable logic resources than that of the previous generation X-series USRP devices. In addition, the ZU28DR comes with 8 soft-decision forward error correction (SD-FEC) hard IP cores, ideal for wireless communication systems. Given the high-speed nature of the built-in ADCs and DACs to the RFSoC, the Zynq device has 8 digital upconversion and digital down-conversion IP cores allowing for rapid in-band retuning or signal reduction.

Multi-Radio Synchronization
Multi-radio clocking and timing synchronized operation is possible with the built-in GPSDO (GPS disciplined oscillator) or with the 10 MHz reference and 1 PPS (Pulse Per Second) input signal interfaces. Multi-Radio phase-aligned and phase-coherent operations are not supported, as RF chain LO import and export functionality is not supported on the USRP X410.

• PCIe Gen3 x8 is only supported by NI-USRP and LabVIEW FPGA design flows
• 100 GBE supported in UHD 4.2 or later

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