Title :
A novel wide-band direct conversion software radio platform
Author :
Laddomada, M. ; Mondin, M. ; Daneshgaran, F. ; Hickling, R.M.
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Abstract :
This paper describes the architecture and the operation of a PC-based software radio transceiver. The development environment is a real-time PC-based platform that allows testing to be done in a simple manner using the main software functionality of a PC. The front-end of the transceiver implemented in hardware represents a wideband design that functionally converts wireless signals directly into a gigasample digital data stream in the receiver (and vice versa in the transmitter). This direct conversion approach shows the greatest promise in realizing the “holy grail” of software radio
Keywords :
microcomputer applications; mobile radio; program testing; radio receivers; radio transmitters; telecommunication computing; transceivers; PC-based software radio; development environment; direct conversion; gigasample digital data stream; real-time platform; receiver; software radio transceiver architecture; testing; transceiver front end; transmitter; wideband design; wireless signals; Baseband; Computer architecture; Hardware; Signal design; Software radio; Software testing; Strontium; Transceivers; Wideband; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications, 2001. (SPAWC '01). 2001 IEEE Third Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in
Conference_Location :
Taiwan
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6720-0
DOI :
10.1109/SPAWC.2001.923918
