LimeSDR Workshop
Preparatory information for the Introduction to software-defined radio with LimeSDR workshop to be held on Friday 24th March 2017 at BCS London.
Requirements
Hardware
A laptop with USB 3.0 and at least 2GB RAM is required.
Note that USB 2.0 will not suffice!
Software
The software requirements detailed below must be installed in advance of the workshop.
Do not leave installation until the morning of 24th March.
Operating system
The reference operating system platform is Ubuntu and while software requirements can be met with other operating systems, we are unable to directly support these and if Apple OS X or Windows is used, you should be confident that you can resolve any issues that might arise.
Lime Suite
Lime Suite provides the SDR driver for LimeSDR.
GNU Octave
Octave will be used for some of the examples.
The following packages must be installed:
Pothos
Pothos will be used for some of the examples.
The following must be installed:
- Pothos with GUI and all official toolkits
- SDR runtime packages
Snapcraft
This is optional and will allow Linux users to install and run "snaps", a type of containerised application.
There are steps required:
- Install snapd
- Configure snapd to use the LimeNET app store
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