A low-cost desktop software defined radio design environment using MATLAB, simulink, and the RTL-SDR.

In the last five years, the availability of powerful DSP and communications design software, and the emergence of relatively affordable devices that receive and digitize RF signals, has brought SDR to the desktops of many communications engineers. However, the more recent availability of very low cost SDR devices such as the RTL-SDR, costing less than $20, has brought SDR to the home desktops of u...