MSR Software Radio Academic Kit announcement

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  Register NOW! The First Sora Tutorial will be held Aug 13 in Helsinki, Finland, colocated with ACM SIGCOMM 2012
  Kun Tan Tuesday, July 3, 2012 9:32 AM

  For more information, please find in ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Web site.

  http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/#/sigcomm/2012/sora.php

  
  The number of attendees are limited. Please register ASAP!
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  Sora SDK ver 1.6 is now available!
  Kun Tan Thursday, March 22, 2012 6:22 AM

  We are pleased to announce the new release of Sora SDK ver 1.6 - the best Sora software we have released so far!

  You can download it from MSR Web site: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/ca9a93a1-2a38-4e3d-b87c-b7e8ddc46eae

  Sora SDK ver 1.6 newly introduces following prominent features:

  • New UMX API. Sora SDK ver 1.6 introduces a new set of UMX
    API that is more flexible, secure and has better performance.
  • UMX Reflection. Sora SDK ver 1.6 now supports a new reflection mechanism that allows the
    programmer easily integrates the user-mode software radio modem into the
    Windows network stack.
  • Brick library. One most prominent feature in Sora SDK ver 1.6 is the Brick library. Brick is a
    modular programming library for high-performance digital signal processing. It is easy to program,
    flexible and highly extensible.
  • UMXSDRab utility. UMXSDRab is a powerful SDR 802.11 modem
    based on UMX reflection. It supports both client mode and adhoc mode. So it can
    easily connect to a commercial 802.11 AP or device. UMXSDRab has an easy-to-use
    interactive interface to configure and monitor the status of SDR modem
    application.
  • DbgPlot tool. DbgPlot is a versatile tool that allows a
    program to dynamically generate various graphics in real-time. It is a very
    useful tool for real-time monitoring or debugging DSP programs.

  For updated Sora manual, please find at http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=160799

  The Brick Specification can be found at http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=160800

  The DbgPlot manual can be found at http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=160801

  Thank you and enjoy,

  Sora core team

  MSR Aisa

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  Sora Manual is available!
  Kun Tan Wednesday, February 9, 2011 8:47 AM

  Hi,

  It takes quite some time for the team to edit a full document for the Sora platform.

  And now, here it comes. The latest Sora Manual contains the latest information of the Sora platform, including the basic usage, tools, programming samples and references of APIs.

  We hope it will give you a handy reference to understand Sora better and help you get hands on it.

  We'd say the manual may still contain many mistakes and miss some information. So if you have any questions or suggestions, please let us know.

  You can download the manual here at http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=144847

  Thanks,

  The Sora Core Team

   

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  Sora Dump File Format
  Kun Tan Wednesday, December 1, 2010 1:13 PM

  Dut tool or dot11config can capture a snapshot of the wireless channel and store the raw I/Q samples into a file located at c:\. The post explains the format of the dump file.

  The dump file is basically a binary file that contains an array of RX descriptors. A RX descriptor (RX_DESC) is defined as follows:

  typedef union ___RX_DESC
  {
  #pragma warning(disable: 4200 4214 4201)
      struct
      {
          union{
              struct
              {
                  UCHAR   __IsValid     : 1;
                  UCHAR   __IsScanned   : 1;
                  UCHAR   __Reserved    : 6;
              };
              UCHAR   __Flags;
          } u;

          UCHAR    __Reserved2;
          USHORT   __DataSize;
          UCHAR    __Reserved3[12];
          UCHAR    __bData[0];
      };
     
      COMPLEX16    Samples[SORA_RX_SIGNAL_UNIT_COMPLEX16_NUM];
      COMPLEX8     SmallSamples[SORA_RX_SIGNAL_UNIT_COMPLEX8_NUM];
  #pragma warning(default: 4200 4214 4201)
  }RX_DESC, *PRX_DESC;

  The signal block is of 128 Bytes, with a header (RX_DESC) and 28 complex samples (COMPLEX16).

  For detailed information of signal blocks, please refore _rx_manager.h.

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  Welcome to the MSR Software Radio Academic Kit forum!
  Qiufeng YIN Thursday, December 31, 2009 5:01 AM

  Hello and welcome to the MSR Software Radio Academic Kit forum!

  MSR Software Radio Academic Kit forum provides you an opportunity to join a community of MSR Software Radio Academic Kit customers where you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others. Start by posting software radio related questions in the forum and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.

  If you have any suggestions or feedbacks to MSR Software Radio Academic Kit, please feel free to post in our forums.
  
  You can also visit http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/sora/ for lastest news, release and document of MSR Software Radio Academic Kit.