A soft radio architecture for reconfigurable platforms

  • Authors:
  • S. Srikanteswara;J. H. Reed;P. Athanas;R. Boyle

  • Affiliations:
  • Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

While many soft/software radio architectures have been suggested and implemented, there remains a lack of a formal design methodology that can be used to design and implement these radios. This article presents a unified architecture for the design of soft radios on a reconfigurable platform called the layered radio architecture. The layered architecture makes it possible to incorporate all of the features of a software radio while minimizing complexity issues. The layered architecture also enables a methodology for incorporating changes and updates into the system. An example implementation of the layered architecture on actual hardware is presented