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Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Software-Defined-Radio (SDR) products have been traditionally used for Military RADAR and communication applications because of their high performance, and design flexibility. The latest SDR products offer SoC solutions with integrated I/O, ARM processors, and large FPGAs that include intellectual property (IP) for accessing, routing, and processing digital data. Combining these attributes with superior signal integrity, phase-coherent sampling, and multi-channel transceivers a COTS SDR system is an ideal choice for your 5G development platform. This article is designed to familiarize a new user about Software Defined Radio including theory, components and architecture, in a multi-purpose COTS platform that can reduce the time to market their 5G products.
Read this white paper to learn:
- The history of COTS
- SDR hardware design and implementation
- Architecting SDR
- Theory: Nyquist zone sampling
- Firmware and IP building blocks for SDR
- Theory: SNR and digital process gain
- Software and BSP needs
- New COTS SDR technology architecture: hardware, firmware, and software
- Architecture differences for 5G Applications
- Theory: Cellular phone call
