使用 Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, zypper 安装 uhd

项目链接

• 主页
• 仓库
• 上游文档
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

• uhd_adc_self_cal
• uhd_cal_rx_iq_balance
• uhd_cal_tx_dc_offset
• uhd_cal_tx_iq_balance
• uhd_config_info
• uhd_find_devices
• uhd_image_loader
• uhd_images_downloader
• uhd_usrp_probe
• usrp2_card_burner

项目历史

The official README describes UHD as the software driver and API for the USRP software-defined radio platform created and sold by Ettus Research. It supports Ettus Research USRP motherboards, daughterboards, and their combinations, making it the central host-side software layer for that hardware family.

The public GitHub repository was created in 2013 and contains host driver code, embedded module peripheral manager code, firmware, FPGA image sources, image packaging scripts, and debugging tools. The project therefore behaves like more than a typical CLI package: it is a driver, API, firmware/FPGA distribution, and hardware support tree.

Release metadata shows a long-lived 3.x-to-4.x line, with public 3.11/3.12 release-candidate and stable releases in 2018 and UHD 4.10.0.0 published in April 2026.

采用历史

UHD's adoption follows USRP hardware adoption in research labs, radio prototyping, telecom testbeds, and SDR developer environments. The README names common third-party application frameworks and toolkits that use UHD with USRP hardware, including GNU Radio, RFNoC out-of-tree blocks, NI LabVIEW, MATLAB/Simulink, REDHAWK, OpenBTS, Osmocom, srsRAN, and OpenAirInterface.

The supplied package data records UHD in Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, Alpine, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora/dnf, and openSUSE. That packaging matters because SDR users often need a reproducible host driver before higher-level GNU Radio or telecom stacks can see their radios.

使用方式

Package users commonly install UHD for command-line discovery, image loading, probing, calibration, and host API development. The Homebrew executables include uhd_find_devices, uhd_usrp_probe, uhd_image_loader, uhd_images_downloader, uhd_config_info, and several calibration utilities.

The official manual documents device setup and low-level operational behavior such as tuning, sample-rate constraints, overflow and underflow handling, threading, and device-family-specific configuration. In practice, UHD is both a user-facing diagnostic toolkit and the library dependency that unlocks USRP support for SDR applications.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

UHD is significant to package maintainers because it sits at the boundary between package management and physical hardware. A working formula or distro package has to account for libraries, firmware/FPGA images, USB or network transport, command-line tools, and ABI expectations from SDR applications.

For users, installing UHD from a package manager is often the first test of whether a USRP setup is usable: device discovery and uhd_usrp_probe provide quick confirmation before moving into GNU Radio, RFNoC, or custom C++/Python applications.

时间线

• 2013: Public GitHub repository created.
• 2018: Public UHD 3.11 and 3.12 release metadata available on GitHub.
• 2026: UHD 4.10.0.0 release published.
• 2026: Official manual identified the documentation version as 4.10.0.0.

Related projects

• The README names GNU Radio, RFNoC OOT Blocks, NI LabVIEW, MATLAB/Simulink, REDHAWK, OpenBTS, Osmocom, srsRAN, and OpenAirInterface as common UHD application frameworks or toolkits.
• UHD is tightly coupled to Ettus Research USRP hardware and to the firmware and FPGA image assets distributed with the project.

来源

• https://api.github.com/repos/EttusResearch/uhd
• https://api.github.com/repos/EttusResearch/uhd/releases?per_page=5
• https://files.ettus.com/manual/
• https://files.ettus.com/manual/page_general.html
• https://github.com/EttusResearch/uhd
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EttusResearch/uhd/master/README.md
• source_facts.executables
• source_facts.package-manager