Tutorials

Beginner User Level

These tutorials are designed to guide new GNU Radio users to a better understanding of the project.

• A brief introduction to GNU Radio, SDR, and DSP
• Intro to GR usage: GRC and flowgraphs
• Understanding sample rate
• Simulation example: AM transmitter and receiver
• Using GNU Radio with Hardware
• Example Usage of GNU Radio: PSK Modulation / Demodulation

Intermediate User Level

• Understanding a flowgraph's python code
• Writing your own block (using Embedded Python Block)
• Out of Tree modules
• Writing the XML file for a block (for 3.7)
• Writing the YAML file for a block (new in 3.8)
• Writing blocks in C++
• Brief intro to PMTs, Stream Tags, and Messaging Passing
• Porting Existing OOTs from 3.7 to 3.8

Expert User Level

• Volk- what it does, why it rocks, how to write new kernels
• Working with ALSA and Pulse Audio
• Simulations
• Tagged streams for variable-length PDUs
• Basics of OFDM

Developer Level

• Using Visual Studio Code for Source level debugging of C++ OOTs
• Using Eclipse for Building and Source level debugging C++ OOTs
• Using Code::Blocks IDE for GNU Radio Development
• Git and GNU Radio
• How to use Octave or Matlab with GNU Radio
• The GNU Radio Scheduler