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of the electromagnetic spectrum to facilitate the transfer of information. In today's world, radios exist in a
multitude of items such as cell phones, computers, car door openers, vehicles, and televisions.
Traditional hardware based radio devices limit cross-functionality and can only be modified through
physical intervention. This results in higher production costs and minimal flexibility in supporting
multiple waveform standards. By contrast, software defined radio technology provides an efficient and
comparatively inexpensive solution to this problem, allowing multimode, multi-band and/or multifunctional wireless devices that can be enhanced using software upgrades.
1. To move the border between the analog and digital world (in Tx and Rx Paths)
as much as possible toward radio frequency (RF) by adopting analog-digital
(A/D) and digital-analog (D/A) conversion as near ar possible to the antenna.
processing.
The FPGAs are mainly used in SDR RF Front-Ends (FEs) to improve the performance
of DSP-chip-based systems. There is currently a wide range of FPGA products bring
offered by many semiconductor vendors; Xilinx, Altera, Atmel and AT&T etc. The
architecture approaches used in these FPGAs are as diverse as their manufacturers.
The obvious benefits of wireless transmission have led to a number of radio
systems.
Table 1 shows details survey of existing SDR hardware platforms and their
performance.