FPGA-based radio-on-demand broadcast receiver with musical genre identification

Broadcast radio is a rich yet underexploited source of multimedia content. To make this content available to users, it will be indispensable to develop new types of navigators capable of searching the large quantities of information contained in the radio bands. The article introduces a prototype of a new software radio enabled broadcast media navigator implemented on a Field Programmable Gate Array and multi-core processor, which is able to demodulate simultaneously all channel in the FM band and perform a real time classification of the musical genre.