title:GNU Radio BladeRF
keywords:sdr,airspy,gnuradio

#

Setting up steps to run  AirSpy with GNU Radio using Soapy block.
Assume the AirSpy libraries and cli tools are installed.

Check that AirSpy tools recognizes and see device

```bash
bladeRF-cli -p
```

Check that soapy recognizes the device

```bash
SoapySDRUtils --find="driver=bladerf"
```

Adding GNU Radio Soapy block.

![GNU radio soapy block](/img/sdr/gnuradio_soapy_source_bladerf.png)

Main part of the block is to configure location of firmware that is going to
be loaded to BladeRF FPGA, can use one from default packages or download
directly from Nuan page [https://www.nuand.com/fpga_images/](https://www.nuand.com/fpga_images/)
match the firmware with libbladerf version on the system.

Example configurations

```
bladerf=0,fpga=/usr/share/Nuand/BladeRF/hostedxA4.rbf
```

![BladeRF soapy block config](/img/sdr/bladerf_soapy_source_config.png)


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