Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
28 March 2006
Outline
Software-Defined Radio (SDR) has been discussed for many years and
means different things to different people. Has its time come?
This paper will examine how SDR is already use in commercial
mobile systems.
– Configurable hardware
Highly
– FPGA Configurable
Hardware
– DSP
– Signal
Microprocessor
Processing
Software
Reconfigurable
– implementation of different functionality by firmware download
Digital Base
– Gradual move to multi-carrier radio Band
Radio TRX
& PA
15%
50%
system
• Radio BoM around 30–50% of BTS
© PA Knowledge Limited 2002. All rights reserved.-xxx- 25/03/2002- 5
SDR technologies …
DESPREAD:
Received
Received complex
complex samples
samples rr77 rr66 rr55 rr44 rr33 rr22 rr11 rr00
xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
Scrambling/
Scrambling/ c128
c c24
c c16
c cc88 cc77 cc66 cc55 cc44 cc33 cc22 cc11 cc00 yy00
spreading code
spreading code 128 24 16
c8 c1 y1
c9 7 c2 y2
TURBO: c11
c10 y0 y0
c4
r cc3
i 0
i i
y3
y4
c12 c5 y5
c13 c6 y6
c14 c7 y7
c15 c8 y8
c16 c9 y9
c17 c10 y10
c18 c11 y11
c19 c12 7 y12
c21
c20
c14
c13 y y r c
i 0
i i
y13
y14
c22 c15 y15
log e x e y Coprocessors
max x, y log 1 e
x y
– trades flexibility
Rake fingers
BlackFIN
Path searcher
Turbo decoder
BlackFIN
Interleaver
Filtering
RF
DSP DSP TSP DAC IF
RF
FPGA
Host PC
DSP DSP RF
RSP ADC IF
RF
Mode
control Buffering
1st & 2nd IFs
GUI Format
conversion Switched SAWs
Chip-rate processing Split bands
Symbol-rate processing Filtering
– 700–960 MHz
MAC Gain control – 1400–2690 MHz
L3 call control Interpolation Multiple tuneable
/decimation YIG filters
© PA Knowledge Limited 2002. All rights reserved.-xxx- 25/03/2002- 10
Case study …
Probability (%)
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
FPGA
REDUCE COST
• Common platform approach Commodity Hardware
SDR
Commodity Software
REDUCE RISK
• Multi-standard capability Time
• SW upgrades for new features
ADSP-TS-101
ADSP-TS-201
3G Chip Rate Next Gen
Processing TigerSHARC