Evaluation of GNU Radio Platform Enhanced for Hardware Accelerated Radio Design

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2010-12-13Author
Karve, Mrudula Prabhakar
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The advent of software radio technology has enabled radio developers to design and imple-
ment radios with great ease and flexibility. Software radios are effective in experimentation
and development of radio designs. However, they have limitations when it comes to high-
speed, high-throughput designs. This limitation can be overcome by introducing a hardware
element to the software radio platform. Enhancing GNU Radio for Hardware Accelerated
Radio Design project implements such a scheme by augmenting an FPGA co-processor to
a conventional GNU Radio flow. In this thesis, this novel platform is evaluated in terms of
performance of a radio design, as well as hardware and software system requirements. A
simple and efficient Zigbee receiver design is presented. Implementation of this receiver is
used as a proof-of-concept for the effectiveness and design methodology of the modified GNU
Radio. This work also proposes a scheme to extend this idea for design of ultra-wideband
radio systems based on multiband-OFDM.
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