Title :
Evolution of a Software-Defined Radio Receiver´s RF Front-End
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA
Abstract :
The subject of this paper is how to construct this flexible receiver. We survey the steps that have been taken over the years in this direction - some very tenuously - leading up to a recent realization of a software-defined RF front-end. We do not cover the work that has gone into the digital front-end which follows the ADC (Hentschel and Fettweis, 2002), nor on the software-defined baseband - both are essential for a full radio. Furthermore, an efficient software-defined transmitter without which the software-defined radio project is incomplete is still in the research phase
Keywords :
analogue-digital conversion; radio receivers; radio transmitters; software radio; RF front-end; analogue digital conversion; radiofrequency front end; software-defined radio receiver; software-defined transmitter; Bandwidth; Baseband; Capacitors; Electrical capacitance tomography; Global Positioning System; Passband; Radio frequency; Sampling methods; Satellite broadcasting; Wideband;
Conference_Titel :
Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2006 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9572-7
DOI :
10.1109/RFIC.2006.1651080
