SoapySDR is a vendor-neutral hardware-abstraction library that exposes a common
API across many software-defined radios, so
applications can support diverse devices without per-vendor code.1
SoapySDR is a vendor-neutral abstraction layer: one API that drives many different SDR devices.
Overview
Its SoapyRemote companion streams IQ over a network, letting a
radio on one machine serve an application on another — useful for placing the dongle at
the antenna.
Relevance to SDR
SoapySDR-style remoting (alongside rtl_tcp) lets GopherTrunk use
radios that live on a separate host.
Sources
SoapySDR — the project repository, documenting the vendor-neutral SDR abstraction API and SoapyRemote. ↩
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