Implementation of Software Radio Based on PC and FPGA

Author

Rakhshanfar, Meisam ; Teimouri, Mehdi ; HassanShahi, Zabihollah

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Amirkabir, Tehran

fYear

2008

Firstpage

633

Lastpage

637

Abstract

This paper introduces a flexible real-time software radio using a personal computer (PC) and single FPGA with a solution for frequency hopping under non open-source operating systems like Windows. All parts of this hardware are easily accessible and all of the software layers can be implemented in PC. Universal serial bus (USB) interfaces are used to communicate with hardware, so laptop computers are able to realize this system. A demonstration test bed of global system for mobile (GSM) receiver is implemented based on this idea and the system performance is then presented.

Keywords

cellular radio; field programmable gate arrays; laptop computers; microcomputers; radio receivers; software radio; user interfaces; GSM receiver; PC-FPGA; USB interface; field programmable gate array; frequency hopping; global system for mobile; laptop computer; nonopen-source operating system; personal computer; software radio implementation; universal serial bus; Communication system software; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Microcomputers; Open source software; Operating systems; Real time systems; Software radio; Spread spectrum communication; Universal Serial Bus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems for Communications, 2008. ICCSC 2008. 4th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1707-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1708-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSC.2008.140

Filename

4536832