The parameterizable ip is optimized to support a wide range of equipment types, from compact, low power, narrow band solutions often required in small cell applications, to broadband, multiantenna high power mimo. Fpgas provide a design environment that allows for true architectural tradeoffs. Fpgas and socs as platform for software defined radio. Most of these new devices take advantage of ballgridarray bga packaging to deliver thousands of io pins while keeping the.
Fpgas and socs as platform for software defined radio fpga congress munich, july 12, 2016 most important tool. Most of todays existing sdrs, like the usrp n210, propose an embedded application design within their fpga firmware to reduce some of the baseband processor load and thus gnu radio load. Ip cores designed for the development of softwaredefined radio sdr applications that are deployed on fpgabased reconfigurable computing platforms. Counterpoint software broadcast industry software for monitoring traffic counterpoints electronic affidavit system delivers logs to station affiliates, and retrieves affidavits after airing. Software defined radio sdr technology enables such functionality in wireless devices by using a reconfigurable hardware platform across multiple standards. Building a software defined radio sdr involves many trades offs. View the putting fpgas to work in software radio systems, 11th edition abstract for details on the putting fpgas to work in software radio systems, 11th edition tech paper. The fpga fabric, with its embedded hardened dsp blocks, can perform massively parallel dsp functions much faster, and more importantly with much less power, than conventional processors, leaving the followup work and overall control to embedded software running on the builtin arm processors. This project is used for communication system radio. Details this is based upon the papilio one 500k development board from gadget factory and the zpuino softprocessor. Softwaredefined radio has become a reality for military radio. Programming an fpga means designing a digital circuit and requires a significantly different skillset and experience than software programming. Lukas finished sdr design is called the freesrp and is based on the analog deviced ad9364 transceiver and a xlinx fpga. There is no lowcost entrylevel fpgabased sdr hardware for getting started in digital down conversion ddc receiver design.
Fpga use in softwaredefined radios design and reuse. An ideal companion to a harmony or counterpoint course, this software will help you write exercises in an interactive way. From airtime sales including multimedia and nontraditional revenue packaging, through commercial scheduling and log generation, to billing and receivables, in addition to complete affiliate management and proof of performance, counterpoint provides the foundation for network operations. Jeri ellsworth has been working on a direct conversion receiver using an fpga as an oscillator and a pc sound card dsp. In this paper, an implementation of an am radio receiver using a field programmable gate array fpga is described. Radioproject is an open source software radio development environment designed operate on pc compatible hardware running primarily linux. Such designs require a deep knowledge of lowlevel hardware and software. Software radio module application one illustrative example of the power and flexibility of a dspdriven fpga sdr platform shown in figure 1 below is a dual channel digital receiver daughter card module that attaches to a quad dsp processor vme board. Radio that works with analog signal is implemented digitally on fpga via vhdl. Fpga software architecture for software defined radio. The second technique you mention is the way to do it, using what is called a software defined radio or sdr. An fpga digital radio utilizing offtheshelf boards and.
With accurate inventory and revenue projections, budget comparisons, and prices to make plan reporting, sales management is always equipped to maximize revenue by analyzing and more. Counterpoint software broadcast industry software products. Accelerating gnu radio development with xilinx fpgas. Dynamic reconfiguration enables to configure some parts of. Epiq solutions announced a handheld software defined radio sdr device with an rf transceiver that tunes from 300mhz to 3. Embedding fpgas in dspdriven software defined radio. With moores law at work, these fpga devices sport incredibly small silicon geometries, capable of operating at very low core voltages and very high clock speeds. In his post lukas describes how he designed the pcb with altium designer, routing the traces carefully to ensure the. Fpga technology fueling software defined radio signal. Counterpoint provides an endtoend radio network solution. With the proliferation of wireless standards, including wide area 3g, 2. Many vendors provide intellectual property cores, which make up the building blocks of a software radio, but these cores are usually not portable from one vendor to another.
Once entered, an order can be scheduled as far into the future as the schedule requires. The fieldprogrammable gate array fpga technology is expected to play a key role in the development of softwaredefined radio sdr platforms. Putting fpgas to work in software radio systems, part 3 edn. This handbook introduces the basics of fpga technology and its relationship to sdr softwaredefined radio systems. In this application, the input is used as an rf adc.
By using this approach, the flexibility of software and the speed of hardware can be combined, i. Carrier frequencies or modulation types can be changed without inserting new. This is an ongoing project to create building blocks for a softwaredefined radio controller and signal processing in an fpga. Counterpoint software broadcast industry software for. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Design of digital down converter chain for software. System description and theory looking at the overall block diagram, the digital samples coming out of the ad converter are being fed to. A complete hardware and software infrastructure for creating customizable efpga ip blocks of menta. But one of the most fundamental is should you use an fpga or a cpu to do the processing. Original author of full digital fm radio receiver design. Software defined radio sdr is a popular application within the wireless infrastructure market. Pdf an fpga software defined radio platform with a high.
Fpgabased applications for software radio software radio technology offers the ability to develop radio architectures with programmable intermediate frequency, bandwidth, modulation and coding schemes. Modern fpgas have io pins capable of differential signalling at rates greater than 1e9 bitsseconds. The output can be seen in a software graphical rendering of the data sweep involving both of these variables. The output of the lna is coupled to the fpga input using a diy rf transformer with a 1. The transformer consists of a 2 turn primary winding and 2 turn secondary winding on a toroidal ferrite core. Software defined radio sdr omapl8based reference platform ti designs design features ti designs provide the foundation that you need offers a software defined radio sdr platform including methodology, testing and design files to from critical link that provides a hardware and quickly evaluate and customize the system. This converts the unbalanced signal to a differential signal, and removes any dc component. Using the latest fpga technology, implementation of sdr is now possible. The ncr counterpoint solution includes an email marketing tool, integrated ecommerce, mobile alerting, builtin gift card and customer loyalty programs and hardware specifically designed for the retail. Counterpoint has been automating the network radio business since 1994 and is on the forefront as new platforms. It contains two 12bit ad converters capable of operating at sampling rates up to 100 mhz. Design and implementation of highperformance fpga signal. Counterpoint has raised the level of broadcast software to a new standard by combining industry knowledge, experience and expertise of broadcast systems with todays powerful software and hardware capabilities.
Counterpoint software about software solutions for radio. This article describes how emerging fpga technologys unique combination of size and power efficiency plus field programmability offers a transition of fpcas from asic prototyping to embedded products. Fieldprogrammable gate array is important in multimission software radio applications like electronic warfare, radar, communications and rf. Techonline is a leading source for reliable tech papers. Design and implementation of highperformance fpga signal processing datapaths for software defined radios chris h.
The advent of software defined radio sdr has moved a lot of this into the domain of software, but there is of course another field in which a radio can be created via code. This hardware reference design, leveraging the real time signal processing of the ti dsp and its universal parallel port upp, along with ti adc and dac, offers sdr algorithm developers a quick platform to enable quick development and demonstration of algorithms and solutions. N2 as new radio standards are deployed without substantially supplanting existing ones, the need for multimode multiband handsets and infrastructure increases. A modern low power amateur radio transceiver capable of all major communication modes. Project aims to use vhdl for dspprocessor elements, design pcb plus write control software. Another approach towards realizing sdrs is to use a programmable hardware such as fpgas. Of course it will be fully open source, but some parts still need tidying up before i publish. Such a radio platform would enable cubesat engineers. The rules of counterpoint can be used for 2, 3 or 4 voices counterpoint. Counterpoint software broadcast industry software for monitoring traffic sales proposals become orders with a single mouse click. Implemented this receiver in practice for his line of fleafpga boards based on lattice fpga machxo. Now fpgas offer very highdensity integration and some devices support dynamic partial reconfiguration. Putting fpgas to work in software radio systems, 11th. The matchstiq z1 is built around a linuxready iveia atlasiz7e computeronmodule equipped with a xilinx zynq z7020 soc, which integrates dual arm cortexa9 cores along with fpga circuitry.
We look forward to talking with you soon and demonstrating the many benefits counterpoint has for your operations. When configured as an input an lvds input behaves as a very high speed comparator. Many radio amateurs are using sdrs, and the simple ones are very cheap, about 30 dollars for a kit that downconverts the input into inphase and quadrature baseband audio output which is fed into the stereo inputs of a pc sound card for digital signal processing. A converter vendor will need to have some fpga jesd204b. Fm radio receiver for fpga with simple rlc network and analog comparator available onchip, no adc required. This is a course with a high knowledge prerequisite, so you will likely need qualifications andor knowledge equivalent to a bachelors in electricalcomputer engineering to be able to understand the material. Counterpoint has been automating the network radio business since 1994 and is on the forefront as new platforms for multimedia and digital content revolutionize. Usrp hardware and software description faculty ece. An implementation of a software radio using an fpga. Using the universal software radio peripheral usrp as a base, this thesis aims to create a highlyadaptive, plug and play softwarede. Softwaredefined radios sdrs are wireless devices with a reconfigurable hardware platform that can be used across multiple. An fpga software defined radio platform with a highlevel. Thank you for your interest in counterpoint software. With each pending proposal and order, counterpoint automatically updates all inventory, revenue, sales, and management reporting with no duplication of entry.
Xilinx radio ip provides vendors the ability to scale to meet the disparate needs of these emerging heterogeneous networks. Design and implementation of a fpga based software. As new radio standards are deployed without substantially supplanting existing ones, the need for multimode multiband handsets and infrastructure increases. Fpga based software defined radio and its realtime implementation using niusrp. Counterpoint installation guide 5 introduction counterpoint is a 32bit integrated business software application that provides pointofsale, inventory management, customer tracking, purchasing, labeling, apparel, receivables, payables, general ledger, check reconciliation, order processing, ecommerce, and. For working out the problem of waveform portability on the fpga, this paper firstly comes up with the structural of platform abstraction layer on the fpga, and then improves the standard message format of modem hardware abstraction layer. Soft core processors are a good alternative that allow flexible implementation options.
Usrp hardware and software description philip balister and je rey h. A thesis submitted to the graduate college in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of science in engineering computer electrical and computer engineering western michigan university december 2015. Modular fpgabasedsoftware definedradio for cubesats. Over on his blog lukas lao beyer has uploaded a post that shows his journey with designing and building a software defined radio from scratch. Todays fpga prototyping breaking the typecast mold. In this chapter, we propose a novel design of scalable and realtime data acquisition software architecture for softwaredefined radio sdr using universal. Medical imaging process accelerated in fpga 82x faster than software.
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