# See a demo of our new USRP as DEFCON

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**Category:** GNU Radio\
**Created:** [August 2, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/see-a-demo-of-our-new-usrp-as-defcon/245958 "2013-08-02T02:11:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/see-a-demo-of-our-new-usrp-as-defcon/245958/1 "2013-08-02T02:11:42Z")

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## For those lucky enough to be going to DEFCON, Balint S. (our applications engineer) will be presenting "All Your RFz Are Belong to Me

Hacking the Wireless World with SDR", in Track 4 from 10 AM to 11:45.  
He  
will be running all of his demos on the USRP B200, which we are going to  
release very soon.

The low-cost B200 has frequency coverage of 50 MHz to 6 GHz, with 56 MHz  
of  
instantaneous bandwidth (at 61.44 MS/s) over a USB 3 interface. The  
B210  
adds 2x2 MIMO capability and a bigger FPGA. The device is bus-powered  
so  
there is no need for an external power supply. It _already_ runs GNU  
Radio, OpenBTS, LTE, and anything else that runs on our other USRPs.

Balint’s talks are always very exciting, so be sure to check it out if  
you  
are at the conference. He is going to demonstrate RFID hacking (on  
FastTrak toll passes), LTE, OpenBTS, and numerous other applications he  
has  
developed.

For those not lucky enough to be there, here is a brief taste of it:

```
http://t.co/GyCijVunPx

```

Matt

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**Author:** ![highprob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@highprob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/highprob)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/see-a-demo-of-our-new-usrp-as-defcon/245958/2 "2013-08-02T22:23:00Z")

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On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Matt E. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> there is no need for an external power supply. It _already_ runs GNU Radio,
> 
> Matt

Matt,

That’s great! I’m really looking forward to seeing it in action.

Just a question that I’m sure you’ve addressed somewhere already, but  
is there any fall-back support to work off USB 2.0?

–  
Tom  
Visit us at GRCon13 Oct. 1 - 4

> **[GNU Radio Conference 2013 — Rondeau Research](http://www.trondeau.com/gnu-radio-conference-2013)**

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**Author:** ![highprob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@highprob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/highprob)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/see-a-demo-of-our-new-usrp-as-defcon/245958/3 "2013-08-02T22:37:38Z")

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Yes, it will fall back to USB 2.0, which reduces the bandwidth.

Matt

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**Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/see-a-demo-of-our-new-usrp-as-defcon/245958/4 "2013-08-02T23:31:25Z")

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Hi Matt,

This is very good news. The specs you’re anticipating are of great  
interest  
to me. Just a further question:  
Is the B200 conceived in order to support 24/7 continuous operation  
(e.g.  
the sort of use case you would expect in a permanent spectrum monitoring  
application)?  
If so, have you already or will you have some characterization figures  
in  
this regard (an MTBF or the like)?

Cheers  
…and good luck with your great work

Vince  
Il giorno 02/ago/2013 02:10, “Matt E.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ha scritto: