Software defined radio platform with wideband tunable front end

  • Authors

    • Daniel Iancu Optimum Semiconductor Inc.,120 White Plains Rd, Tarrytown, NY 10591
    • John Glossner
    • Gary Nacer
    • Stuart Stanley
    • Vitaly Kolashnikov
    • Joe Hoane
    2015-01-11
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v4i1.4160
  • Multicore Processing, Parallel Programming, Software Radio.

  • Abstract

    The paper presents a Software Defined Radio (SDR) development platform with wideband tunable RF (Radio Frequency) front end. The platform is based on the SB3500 Multicore Multithreaded Vector Processor and it is intended to be used for a wide variety of communication protocols as: Time Division Duplexing/Frequency Division Duplexing Long Term Evolution (TDD/FDD LTE), Global Positioning System (GPS), Global System for Mobile/General Packet Radio Service (GSM/GPRS), Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), Legacy Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX). As an example, we describe briefly the implementation of the LTE TDD/FDD communication protocol. As far as we know, this is the only LTE category 1 communication protocol entirely developed and executed in software (SW), without any hardware (HW) accelerators.

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  • How to Cite

    Iancu, D., Glossner, J., Nacer, G., Stanley, S., Kolashnikov, V., & Hoane, J. (2015). Software defined radio platform with wideband tunable front end. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 4(1), 97-103. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v4i1.4160

    Received date: 2015-01-11

    Accepted date: 2015-01-11

    Published date: 2015-01-11