Reconfigurable CMOS RF front-end for software radio
May 1, 2008
Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director Designers around the world are racing to build a mobile radio that is flexible enough to handle current and future standards...
Standardizing smart antenna API for SDR networks
Sep 1, 2007
By Seungheon Hyun, June Kim, Seungwon Choi, Lee Pucker, and Bruce Fette In addition to defining the smart antenna application programming interface (API), this article will also describe the smart antenna API in detail and explore its benefits. Plus, it will introduce the smart antenna working group and the process they are following in developing this API, as well discuss steps toward standardization....
Advanced SDR platform eases multiprotocol radio development
Jan 1, 2007
By Louis Belanger This article describes a low-cost integrated hardware and software platform employing a software-defined
radio approach that expedites development of multiprotocol
radios for military, public safety and commercial applications....
SDR development platform enables multiprotocol radios
Nov 1, 2006
Texas Instruments Inc. has released a small form factor software-defined radio development platform for military, public safety and other professional radio and land mobile radio applications....
IQ modulators advance reconfigurable radio
Jun 1, 2006
By Eamon Nash While true software-defined radio has yet to be implemented cost effectively
for general applications, improvements in signal-processing functions such
as IQ modulators move the RF industry ever closer to that goal....
Use FPGA resources to boost radar system performance
Oct 1, 2005
By Rodger H. Hosking Modern radar systems engineers seek to dramatically improve performance, target acquisition, tracking and identification of their targets. The latest...
Software-defined radio: Integration for innovation
Sep 1, 2005
By Darren McCarthy Today's wireless industry is rapidly expanding with multiple standards and devices. New wireless technologies are being introduced at a progressively...
Software-defined radio poses major challenges for hardware and software developers
Jun 1, 2005
By Steve Grossman, Contributing Editor To fulfill the requirements of the Joint Tactical Radio System program, lowerdissipation FPGAs and more sophisticated DSPs must be developed to enable migrating software programmability closer to the antenna....
SDR platform enables reconfigurable direction finding system
Jan 1, 2005
By Jyothsna Rajan A software-defined radio (SDR) transceiver platform is used to implement a
reconfigurable direction finding (DF) system. This article will describe the
intended data flow and data rate requirements of a typical DF system, map the
DF software components to the SDR platform, and demonstrate the availability
of resources for more complex implementations....
Rf Front-End Considerations for Sdr Ultra-Wideband Communications Systems
Jul 1, 2004
By Stéphane Paquelet, Christophe Moy and Louis-Marie Aubert Design an efficient RF front-end for a novel impulse radio signal transmission
with a detection scheme of an ultra-wideband software-defined radio with high
data rate demodulation structure....
Field trials of an all-software GSM base station
Mar 1, 2004
By Jeffrey Steinheider As part of the Mid-Tex Cellular radio access network, Vanu, Cambridge, Mass., installed a software radio GSM base station in DeLeon, Texas, in June 2003....
Synthetic instrumentation: An emerging technology (Part I)
Feb 1, 2004
By Mike Granieri A synthetic instrument (SI) synthesizes the stimulus and/or measurement functionality found in traditional instruments by using a combination of core...
