Title :
SDR control interface: An FPGA based infrastructure for control of VPX Software Defined Radio systems
Author :
Castillo, Stefanie ; Astarloa, Armando ; Lazaro, J. ; Salas, Sergio ; Ballesteros, Isaac
Author_Institution :
Univ. of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
Abstract :
We present a flexible, scalable, re-usable, open-source based control and Built-In Self-Test (BIST) System-on-Programmable-Chip (SoPC) hardware infrastructure: the Software Defined Radio (SDR) control interface. Our design endows centralized Virtual Path cross-connect (VPX) switch fabric systems with a hardware infrastructure to control and test the RF Transceiver (TRX) Integrated Circuits (ICs) of a SDR platform. We include a detailed description of the design, show results of an FPGA based implementation and finally experimental validation of the system is carried out by successfully configuring and controlling the Texas Instruments (TI) TRX SDR ICs.
Keywords :
built-in self test; field programmable gate arrays; integrated circuit testing; radio transceivers; radiofrequency integrated circuits; software radio; system-on-chip; BIST; FPGA based infrastructure; RF transceiver integrated circuits; SDR control interface; SoPC hardware infrastructure; Texas Instruments TRX SDR ICs; VPX software defined radio systems; built-in self-test; centralized virtual path cross-connect switch fabric systems; flexible based control; open-source based control; reusable based control; scalable based control; system-on-programmable-chip; Built-in self-test; Hardware; IP networks; Protocols; Radio frequency; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2013 23rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Porto
DOI :
10.1109/FPL.2013.6645600
