GNU Radio is a free & open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios. It can be used with readily-available low-cost external RF hardware to create software-defined radios, or without hardware in a simulation-like environment. It is widely used in hobbyist, academic and commercial environments to support both wireless communications research and real-world radio systems. uhd, cppunit, gsl, lxml, numpy, orc, qwt, wxPython and Sphinx (this last to generate additional docs) are optional dependencies.